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Muscle Building Mistakes

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Administrator. Graeme
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What are the biggest mistakes you made, and that you see beginners make when they are trying to build muscle?


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My biggest mistake when I started out was not eating enough, and thus not fueling growth. When I finally learned how to eat, my biggest mistake was eating too much, and thus rapidly going from skinny to skinny-fat. I'm still paying the costs of that. These same two mistakes are made pretty consistently by a lot of beginners. We either don't know that we need to eat to build muscle (in my case, I grew up being told "food makes you fat," without any guidance whatsoever on how food is actually beneficial beyond vegetables have vitamins and milk has calcium), or we do know that we need to eat to build muscle and get recommended ridonculous, irresponsible nutritional programs like GOMAD. Or we just get told to consume a pile of supplements.
 
Not bulking enough as a teen - spent to much time trying to cut - should of taken advantage of that time more.
 
Going clubbing and drinking alcohol on weekends instead of bedding down like a sloth to sleep the tiredness and muscle soreness away.
 
Beginners tend to worry too much about nutrition and not about working hard enough in the gym, this goes for most.
 
I agree with silverback. My biggest mistake was not realising how much volume I need as a beginner-intermediate lifter.
 
Too much weight on some exercises. Weighted wide grip chins led to years of upper back issues.

Being young and drinking on weekends.
 
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