I want to start this entry to my blog by saying my standing toward bodybuilding, myself thinks that bodybuilding is THE hardest sport to endure, plus the most painful.

Bodybuilding is the start to probably most of the population. Once some get there hand on some protein powder and start to watch fitness youtubers they immediately want to hop onto the wagon of bodybuilding. In my eyes just doing those 2 things, including going to the gym every other day doing 4×12 on every workout for an hour, does not make you fit in any way ,shape ,or form. I hope what people will get from this is to truly understand what goes into bodybuilding, as a sport.

This subject I have so much passion and experience to share. I really started focusing on bodybuilding the summer of 2k18, I started off at 135lbs, during the summer the only workouts I did were push-ups & pull-ups, basically all bodyweight stuff. Once school started I shifted toward doing actual weighted lifts. On the way I picked up my all-time favorite pre-workout, it contained a lot of ingredients in which how much I took on a daily basis was pretty dangerous. It included the ingredient creatine, which your body makes and the purpose of it is to have the muscle draw more water from everywhere else in your body. This on top of the extra creatine I was taking everyday was also very dangerous. These were becoming all consistants in my life; lifting heavy, taking obsessive amounts of preworkout, & spending absurd amount of time eating. not so long after I started really getting into bodybuilding I was introduced to s-arms, this is another form of steroids that instead of being straight bulk it helps to bulk and cut at the same time, so after using all the supplements my body started to quickly get bigger n’ stronger but slowly on the inside I was hurting daily. I’m going to explain two painful experiences I’ve had while being apart of these “habits”. The first occasion, I was at the gym, I took too much creatine and preworkout, about 20 minutes into my workout my left side of my face became red and droopy, so immediately I ran to the bathroom to see what was up because I was very concerned, well I sat in the bathroom for 30 minutes sipping water trying to calm myself any amount, after that I passed out and woke up 1 hour later by one of my lifting friends shaking me, turns out I almost had a stroke in my gym bathroom at the age of 17. The next occasion was at home, I got back from the gym after a great workout, that day I was already dehydrated, I took 15 grams of creatine before a usual shower, i got through the shower just fine but at the end I became extremely dehydrated to the point where I passed out in the shower and fell, yes I fell in the shower hahahahah, but on a serious note I was to the point of passing out from dehydration just for some gains. Now that’s really “no pain, no gain”

From my experiences from being all-natural to transferring to non-natural supplements i’d have to say it was worth it but for others they’d have to disagree. In the process of getting back into my bodybuilding career from having a 7 month break it’s gonna be rough to get back to where I was size wise but in the long run i’ll be way healthier. Things I noticed on how i’m growing is mainly in strength rather in my size, which I don’t really like but getting back to 165lbs is gonna take a lot of time and dedication.

In all seriousness ,til this day, I still haven’t met someone who’s had the same kind of experience I have had while bodybuilding, but where I’m at right now I can relate on trying to gain mass and trying to stay as lean as possible.

My main concern i’d like to stress about is the amount of time and money I’ve spent toward bodybuilding only for around a year, which is easily around 500$-600$. Through that time there has been plenty of days where it’d hurt to just walk normally from being so sore.

Obviously this post is going to address on how body-weight workouts will effect your body in a positive way. Body-weight workouts, in my opinion, is supposed to be where you start at the beginning.

In the past when i first started working out I went straight to lifting weights with horrid form and too heavy of weight. During that 5 month period I saw no change in my size or weight, of course I was disappointed because of all the work I was doing but there was no gains, then during the summer I took some advice from a youtuber, Chris Heria, and trained to the point to where I could do 20 perfect form push-ups in a row, then after that point on I pushed myself, putting my ego aside, started off with light weights on every workout I did especially working on my form more than anything. Once I kept going at increasing my weight, doing yoga, taking in enough healthy calories, and taking supplements I got to where I wanted to be.

Something I realized from my failure and success in lifting is that sometimes I had to swallow my pride and lower the weight for the best results.

Most definitely I can relate a lot to this matter but for other people I’m not too sure on how much they can relate to this, but also for many new beginners they usually do start off with body-weight workouts to start their fitness careers. My other point toward the newer people in the fitness picture is to consider on where the health of there body.