7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Lifting - Summary

Summary

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The video is about the top 7 things that the speaker wishes he knew when he started lifting weights. He covers topics such as training, nutrition, genetics, steroids, and progress tracking. He also provides some resources and a sponsor for his video.

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1. The author started lifting when he was 15 years old and is 28 now.
2. The author advises new lifters not to let others influence their own training so easily and to focus on good form and self-experimentation.
3. The author says that building muscle and losing fat is simple and can be explained in a single tweet.
4. The author acknowledges that genetics play a big role in muscle growth and physique development, but encourages new lifters to compare themselves only to their starting point and not to others.
5. The author warns new lifters not to judge their progress on an hour-to-hour or day-to-day basis, but to use more objective measures such as progress photos, body weight trends and strength gains.
6. The author recommends new lifters to track their training and nutrition in a logbook or app, but not to obsess over every detail or bite.
7. The author discourages new lifters from using steroids, especially before maxing out their natural potential, and cites some of the mental and physical health risks of steroid use.
8. The author emphasizes that new lifters are the most primed for growth and should take advantage of this period by training intelligently and balancedly, covering all the major muscle groups and not just chest and arms.
9. The author provides some resources for new lifters, such as his fundamentals video series, his technique Tuesday series and his fundamentals hypertrophy program.
10. The author thanks Squarespace for sponsoring the video and praises their website platform features and customer support.