Marc David
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There's a whole misconception with the word "beginner." If you've worked out for 5 years, you may not consider yourself a beginner. Heck, I worked out for quite some time thinking I was advanced and then I found Max-OT, calorie calculators, BFFM and I knew I was back at square one again.
My own book, the Beginner's Guide to Fitness and Bodybuilding targets a niche market of beginners.
But how many people truly admit that if they aren't just starting out for the first time?
That's why I wanted to put together a list and see if I could come up with an article on this at some point:
You Are a Beginner If:
- You still don't know how many calories you need a day to gain/maintain/lose weight
- You don't know how to track the foods you eat
- You have done the same workout program for the past 3 months
- You don't have an arsenal of exercises and intensification techniques to burst thru plateus
- You don't know where to go to research and learn about supplements and the ingredients contained in them (like you have heard or think creatine is a steroid)
I will post a few more.. but I wanted to know if you have anything you might add to this list?
There are several people who have worked out at my gym for years. And they still make novice mistakes or simply don't know, and don't understand how to keep progressing.
While they might have 'been involved in fitness' for years, they are still beginners.
A true advanced athlete doesn't get frustrated over counting calories nor do they get bored with training programs as they usually have so much they could do, if anything they get crazy with the variations.
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