Guys,
this thread is mainly directed at new joins to the forum...
I've been getting pm'ed on a regular basis from people whom I have
never interacted with asking for my advice/help with MANY various things. I'm nice to the dozen or so friends I made in this forum, and I
enjoy shooting each other PM's about each other's take on certain aspects of training, ect. For example, just the other day I was bored and thought up a pretty good DFHT program to follow and decided to share it with 4 or 5 people I usually talk to and know they were thinking about following something close to what I sent. I also on occation share spreadsheets I take the time in making.
However, getting bombarded by people who just joined the site OR people who have a post count of ZERO I'm really starting to loathe. An example would be from a new join named Dr. Deep, who stated at the beginning of the pm that he's from
bb.com. Long pm asking for advice, and I responded by giving him a brief answer and told him to instead post his questions in the training forum and be a part of the atmosphere here...Haven't seen him since.
I know about as much as everyone else. I'll admit that if I personally don't know something, I'll ask questions in the appropriate forum and research it to death on my own. For example, I wanted to start powerlifting about a month ago. Now, did I just look through a couple of elitefts articles and do it half assed? Nope, I opted to get personally trained by Matt Reynolds for Westside Powerlifting. Best decision I ever made. Especially when I compared what I was going to do with what he has me doing!
He actually just won his PRO-STRONGMAN Card which is very hard to do. (BTW, I DID read every single article I could feast my eyes on) Most of these topics have all been covered extensively in the forums. Anyone who's been here for over 6 months consistantly is more than qualified to help out. It isn't hard to post a link in someone's post asking for help back a year ago when the topic was beaten to death.
Don't get me wrong either. If people ask for help in the forums, I'll be more than happy to chip in along with everyone else. I believe I was the 26th member to join here over a year ago. By posting all the links, articles, and advice in the forums helped tremendously to make this site grow to almost 1500 members since it was started a little over a year ago. That's still the goal today. Some members might not like reality (sleeper's 7 day split
) and might run away, but that shouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Everyone needs a good laugh from time to time.
So from now on, any pm's I get that I don't know who the author is, they're getting posted in this thread...Like I said, I'm not a nice guy...I AM, but only to a point. Am I out of line?
I'm getting pissed off
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