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Thread: If you could go back to age 12 and re-live your life differently

post 1677362423 02-16-2023, 05:09 PM
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If you could go back to age 12 and re-live your life differently

What changes would you make as far as fitness is concerned? What choices would you make that you didn’t make before?

I think I’d do push-ups until I could do sets of 50, then move on to weight training with adjustable dumbbells. Eventually, I would buy a barbell and triceps bar, and lots of weight plates.
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post 1677362903 02-16-2023, 05:19 PM
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And you can’t use future knowledge for financial gain, that’s the rule you’re given by the entity that allows you to go back and live your life differently
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post 1677363423 02-16-2023, 05:26 PM
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I would've prioritized sleep more. Feel like I lost out on an inch or 2 from those hgh gainz.
post 1677363523 02-16-2023, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted By mainebrahh⏩
I would've prioritized sleep more. Feel like I lost out on an inch or 2 from those hgh gainz.
In height, or muscle size?
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post 1677363573 02-16-2023, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted By TheFitLord⏩
In height, or muscle size?
height, and penor length
post 1677363593 02-16-2023, 05:29 PM
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At 12 all I was doing was video games. Sims, RuneScape, Nintendo


I’d take lifting and fitness seriously from the jump. Play sports in high school. Stay single all throughout college. Slay sloots
post 1677363643 02-16-2023, 05:30 PM
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Nothing. There's no point in changing anything

All roads lead to the same destination
post 1677363653 02-16-2023, 05:30 PM
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Fitness is irrelevant at that age. As far that goes, it’s never to late to change your fitness goals.
post 1677363693 02-16-2023, 05:31 PM
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Wouldn’t do it. Have kids. Like the kids I have.
post 1677363703 02-16-2023, 05:31 PM
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nothing. i was a chubby kid growing up and i hated it, so by the time i was age 12 i was already doing pushups and situps all the time. joined my first gym at age 14 but didn't last long because i did cross country/track in highschool.

by age 17 i joined a gym again and been lifting on/off since.
post 1677363733 02-16-2023, 05:32 PM
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There's plenty of things that I could be doing now to improve and I don't bother to do them. There's no way a 12 year old me would do them either.
post 1677364173 02-16-2023, 05:38 PM
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I would have gotten into weight lifting waaaay earlier. I got into cardio relatively early so that was a good habit that stuck with me. If I get to keep my current weight lifting knowledge, I'd be jacked af long before 20 vs getting into shape late 20s

I'd also never get into drinking. I already got into that later than all my peers, but wish I'd stayed the course I was on.
post 1677364313 02-16-2023, 05:40 PM
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I'd prioritize getting good sleep and adequate nutrition. I'd lay off action sports (wake-boarding, snowboarding, skateboarding) and prioritize gymnastics then bodybuilding style workouts. At around 21 I'd probably move into anabolic steroids (low dose cycles) instead of waiting until nearly 30.


But mainly the most important thing is Juice earlier in life.
post 1677364373 02-16-2023, 05:41 PM
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Focus more on form. I'm paying for it now but could get away with it in my teens and 20s.
post 1677364393 02-16-2023, 05:41 PM
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I would have increased my cardio by having sex with more girls in HS

Who knows, maybe I would never have ended up on a gay bodybuilding forum trying men if I had done it different back then.
post 1677364573 02-16-2023, 05:44 PM
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If only fitness related I would have started running track a few years earlier. I didn't start until I was 15 and was running at states (NY) at age 16. A few extra years experience and I'd have gone even farther. Instead of 200/400 I'd have concentrated on 400/800.
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post 1677364583 02-16-2023, 05:45 PM
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I started lifting at 14. If I could go back in time, I'd focus on escaping poverty sooner. If I could have my 30 year old mind when I was 12, I'd be retired by now.
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post 1677364773 02-16-2023, 05:48 PM
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Jump straight on dat dere as soon as i came out of my mother's womb. Never mind age 12 twink chit.
post 1677364833 02-16-2023, 05:49 PM
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post 1677371863 02-16-2023, 07:46 PM
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I would buy 100,000 bitcoins in 2012, then cell 75% when it hit $63,000


I actually wouldn’t change anything else about my life lol well, I guess I could work even harder in my field, and become better at a younger age,
post 1677372043 02-16-2023, 07:47 PM
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post 1677372133 02-16-2023, 07:48 PM
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I wouldn't have let people force me into the weight room at 10/11 years old
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post 1677373583 02-16-2023, 08:06 PM
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Nope.

Because I'd still have to live from age 12-18 under the same restrictions that hindered my personal development in the first place.
post 1677374633 02-16-2023, 08:19 PM
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who cares? I'd just buy a gazillion bitcoins when they were pennies each and live like a king
post 1677380653 02-16-2023, 09:37 PM
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I didn’t start lifting until college, and it made a big difference then, so I’d start earlier, like sophomore year of HS. Would looksmaxx in HS and be less of a shy dork so that HS and subsequently college would have been more enjoyable.

Also would enjoy more time with my mom since I didn’t foresee her getting a rare disease and dying so early.
post 1677380783 02-16-2023, 09:39 PM
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post 1677381443 02-16-2023, 09:48 PM
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Um could I reserve that card for down the road? Would go ham and fuk everything that walks and live a wild life for a few years and then go back to 12
post 1677381873 02-16-2023, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted By Silencespeaks⏩
Who cares about lifting.
People who join bodybuilding forums.
post 1677382343 02-16-2023, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted By MiscValuePlayer⏩
Nothing. There's no point in changing anything

All roads lead to the same destination
Objectively false.
7. Goals in life:
1. Phuck a girl from every country.
2. Impregnate foreign sloots and flee the country
3. Achieve spiritual/physical and sexual enlightenment
4. Live in Tuscany. There I will share a passionate encounter with an olived skinned, curly haired, italian goddess
5. Learn Spanish/Italian/Russian and Arabic
6. Become a buddhist monk and go awol in the Himalayan mountains
7. Live in Egypt for a year, where I would spend many nights plowing the allah out of Egyptian goddesses
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