- Oct 11, 2000
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What was it? How did you find it? How old were you? Anything interesting? Negatives and positives? Anything else you want to add?
I was 14 in school, so this was 15yrs ago back in 1998. Pre internet era for me . I was playing a lot of Rugby and the PE teachers told me to go work out. I went to the local leisure center to train once a week for a year.
I did not do:
Squat
Bench Press
Deadlift
-to be fair there was no barbells or a bench in the weights area. NOT that I knew anything about anything back then
OHP
I did do:
stretch pre training
21s LOL
Leg press
leg extensions
hamstring machine
pull ups and dips
Flys
No idea how I came to this training program. I just picked stuff and did things randomly after my warm up LOL. There was not a single person in the gym that looked half way impressive. I had no internet to do any research. I suppose if my 14yr old self had a brain I'd have actually asked my PE teachers WHAT TO DO in the gym but that didn't occur to me at the time. I could have done to the library to look training books but that again didn't occur to me.
I did the above for one year and people at school asked if I was hitting the weights. Then I met a guy and he seemed to know what he was doing and we did some bench pressing in this downstairs part of the leisure center and I upped my training to 2x a week for 6months.
When I was 15.5 on a random day I met my weightlifting coach. He was coaching some guys to Clean and Jerk. I knew instantly it was much better than my random training and I joined up. I competed 2 weeks later and nearly bombed out LOL. I Sn 35 and CJ 45 at 74kg or so.
I would pretty much come last at every competition but every year I'd be that bit higher and that bit better than my last competition and gradually I would win county competitions.
Since 2007 I've gone to Nationals. In 2011 I won my first senior title, English Champion.
I have learnt a lot from my coach and have done a lot of reading since the internet has been more prevalent.
Koing
I was 14 in school, so this was 15yrs ago back in 1998. Pre internet era for me . I was playing a lot of Rugby and the PE teachers told me to go work out. I went to the local leisure center to train once a week for a year.
I did not do:
Squat
Bench Press
Deadlift
-to be fair there was no barbells or a bench in the weights area. NOT that I knew anything about anything back then
OHP
I did do:
stretch pre training
21s LOL
Leg press
leg extensions
hamstring machine
pull ups and dips
Flys
No idea how I came to this training program. I just picked stuff and did things randomly after my warm up LOL. There was not a single person in the gym that looked half way impressive. I had no internet to do any research. I suppose if my 14yr old self had a brain I'd have actually asked my PE teachers WHAT TO DO in the gym but that didn't occur to me at the time. I could have done to the library to look training books but that again didn't occur to me.
I did the above for one year and people at school asked if I was hitting the weights. Then I met a guy and he seemed to know what he was doing and we did some bench pressing in this downstairs part of the leisure center and I upped my training to 2x a week for 6months.
When I was 15.5 on a random day I met my weightlifting coach. He was coaching some guys to Clean and Jerk. I knew instantly it was much better than my random training and I joined up. I competed 2 weeks later and nearly bombed out LOL. I Sn 35 and CJ 45 at 74kg or so.
I would pretty much come last at every competition but every year I'd be that bit higher and that bit better than my last competition and gradually I would win county competitions.
Since 2007 I've gone to Nationals. In 2011 I won my first senior title, English Champion.
I have learnt a lot from my coach and have done a lot of reading since the internet has been more prevalent.
Koing