I have a suggestion for the Administrators and Moderators (and everyone for that matter) on IM.
We need a thread started for and maintained for beginners to bodybuilding and fitness. Over the last few weeks, IM has had a number of people join and ask some very beginner questions like how to start. In all honesty, I haven’t seen some of these people get very much help, especially considering the incredible amount of knowledge and experience on this board. I know plenty of us are weary of answering in to much detail because so much information is guarded as it has been paid for by paying trainees.
I know a lot of the people that find their way to IM do so in search of more DC training info, but plenty are coming by from other places/reasons too. For the folks that are true beginners to bodybuilding/weightlifting/fitness, I hate to see them go away for lack of good advice. And, some are coming to IM and asking about DC training but have no business getting into it because they are again, beginners.
Wouldn’t you all agree that with the members we have here and all the information/experience they contain, we could set people off on the right path.
My suggestion is this:
Let’s start a thread for beginners and sticky it in the IM Main Discussion Forum. The Administrators/Moderators of IM can write the opening articles or designate certain members to write them, either by writing directly in the thread or submitting the articles to the Adms/Mods first and having them select them. The opening articles can lay out the basics in the following:
Training—the basics behind muscle growth, training frequency, intensity, sample workouts, training for mass, training for fat loss
Nutrition and metabolism—the basics behind sound bodybuilding eating, sample meal plans, the basics of metabolism
Recovery—the factors that contribute to and take away from proper recovery
Supplementation—basic supplementation for beginners, what works, what is a waste of time/money
Reading—books/articles/websites that cover the above in an understandable way but don’t overwhelm or confuse the beginner
Basically, I think we should lay out a plan that is simple enough to follow but thorough enough to produce significant results in a persons first 1-2 years.
Whenever someone comes on IM and starts asking obvious beginner questions and really wants/needs help getting started we can refer them to this thread and have them read it first and then ask questions. This way beginners can get a great deal of solid information and no one gets in trouble for spilling info that they weren’t supposed to be sharing.
If you could go back to when you were just starting out and give yourself even a fraction of what you’ve learned, wouldn’t you want to do it?
What do ya'll think?
We need a thread started for and maintained for beginners to bodybuilding and fitness. Over the last few weeks, IM has had a number of people join and ask some very beginner questions like how to start. In all honesty, I haven’t seen some of these people get very much help, especially considering the incredible amount of knowledge and experience on this board. I know plenty of us are weary of answering in to much detail because so much information is guarded as it has been paid for by paying trainees.
I know a lot of the people that find their way to IM do so in search of more DC training info, but plenty are coming by from other places/reasons too. For the folks that are true beginners to bodybuilding/weightlifting/fitness, I hate to see them go away for lack of good advice. And, some are coming to IM and asking about DC training but have no business getting into it because they are again, beginners.
Wouldn’t you all agree that with the members we have here and all the information/experience they contain, we could set people off on the right path.
My suggestion is this:
Let’s start a thread for beginners and sticky it in the IM Main Discussion Forum. The Administrators/Moderators of IM can write the opening articles or designate certain members to write them, either by writing directly in the thread or submitting the articles to the Adms/Mods first and having them select them. The opening articles can lay out the basics in the following:
Training—the basics behind muscle growth, training frequency, intensity, sample workouts, training for mass, training for fat loss
Nutrition and metabolism—the basics behind sound bodybuilding eating, sample meal plans, the basics of metabolism
Recovery—the factors that contribute to and take away from proper recovery
Supplementation—basic supplementation for beginners, what works, what is a waste of time/money
Reading—books/articles/websites that cover the above in an understandable way but don’t overwhelm or confuse the beginner
Basically, I think we should lay out a plan that is simple enough to follow but thorough enough to produce significant results in a persons first 1-2 years.
Whenever someone comes on IM and starts asking obvious beginner questions and really wants/needs help getting started we can refer them to this thread and have them read it first and then ask questions. This way beginners can get a great deal of solid information and no one gets in trouble for spilling info that they weren’t supposed to be sharing.
If you could go back to when you were just starting out and give yourself even a fraction of what you’ve learned, wouldn’t you want to do it?
What do ya'll think?
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