So now we have lots..... and LOTS of perspective in some cases. We look back at our lives and we are the few that are still cranking iron even though it has wrecked our backs, wrists, knees, elbows.... name it. I wouldn't change a thing about that. My morning agony is still a badge of pride. Plus I look good!
My son saw a class picture from from my reunion and asked "if that is your class, why are you so much younger than everybody?" Nice!
Back to the point. If you could have a redo in your BBing PLing career, what would you do differently? Would you avoid the heavy weights that haunt you today? Been more serious? PLed if you are a BBer or BB if you are a PLer? Add a marathon or triathlon to your list of accomplishments? Physically what would you do differently.
For me I look back with little regret but I do wish I would have competed more. Not really for the pride, ego thing but just for myself. I would have liked to know what I could have accomplished if I would have taking BBing to the next level. I competed just once as a natural novice and placed 2nd. It was a regional with just a couple of handfuls of competitors.
When I started using some gear it was ultra conservative. I still made great gains but I wasn't enough to get huge. I didn't reach my top weight and condition until I was in my mid to late 30s. I was a little over 220 but struggled with that much mass.
I would like to know what would have happened if I would have used my late 20s to really go all in and become a "real" BBer. My genetics don't promise a pro card but I would have liked to see a snap shot of my life as an all out balls to the walls BBer for 5 years, focused on competing rather than just looking like a BBer.
I guess maybe that's why I briefly flirted with competing once more at this ripe old age. But when I got my head back on straight I thought of my all in or all out personality and I could not do that to my wife. To get married and then abandon the marriage for an all consuming lifestyle would not be fair. That on top of increasing my gear and risking health to get there, just didn't seem worth it.
Let's hear it. Magic wands are allowed.
My son saw a class picture from from my reunion and asked "if that is your class, why are you so much younger than everybody?" Nice!
Back to the point. If you could have a redo in your BBing PLing career, what would you do differently? Would you avoid the heavy weights that haunt you today? Been more serious? PLed if you are a BBer or BB if you are a PLer? Add a marathon or triathlon to your list of accomplishments? Physically what would you do differently.
For me I look back with little regret but I do wish I would have competed more. Not really for the pride, ego thing but just for myself. I would have liked to know what I could have accomplished if I would have taking BBing to the next level. I competed just once as a natural novice and placed 2nd. It was a regional with just a couple of handfuls of competitors.
When I started using some gear it was ultra conservative. I still made great gains but I wasn't enough to get huge. I didn't reach my top weight and condition until I was in my mid to late 30s. I was a little over 220 but struggled with that much mass.
I would like to know what would have happened if I would have used my late 20s to really go all in and become a "real" BBer. My genetics don't promise a pro card but I would have liked to see a snap shot of my life as an all out balls to the walls BBer for 5 years, focused on competing rather than just looking like a BBer.
I guess maybe that's why I briefly flirted with competing once more at this ripe old age. But when I got my head back on straight I thought of my all in or all out personality and I could not do that to my wife. To get married and then abandon the marriage for an all consuming lifestyle would not be fair. That on top of increasing my gear and risking health to get there, just didn't seem worth it.
Let's hear it. Magic wands are allowed.
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