Poll: ***The all new gymrats thread***

[Freefaller]

Why is it an unfortunate side effect? Besides it doesn't happen to everyone anyway and I really doubt it has that much of an effect. Dont' get too worried about "genes", genes only come into play when we're talking professional and high-end sports people, for the average joe, i.e. all of us, it really means little. If you're big boned, or slight etc... most of us will be able to put on reasonable size and/or sculpt our bodies.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

My Dad began going bald at ~45. I'm 26 (27 in Aug) and am catching up. :/

 

[Freefaller]

So what?! Nothing wrong with going bald. Besides it's linked to your mother's father's side anyway.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

He has full head of hair at 80 years old! Not a plug in sight

I always knew I was going to go bald, was just surprised to see it start as early as this Not fussed about it.

 

[Freefaller]

Embrace it and be a man!

 

[Dj_Jestar]

I've vowed to shave my head as soon as I get a bald patch

 

[Jonny L]

I can't go bald, I've got a baby face, I'd look like a 6ft 2 baby , and I tried shaving my head once and it looked awful ... I'm doomed

 

[shifty_uk]

mother's father's side anyway.

I'm dooooomed!

 

[Freefaller]

I've vowed to shave my head as soon as I get a bald patch

Works for me Besides, makes me look hot

 

[neon.uk]

Being bald and big "should" make you look like a total hard nut.*

*In some cases it may not

 

[Dj_Jestar]

I used to be a skin head for 9 years from early teens to early twenties. I'm 6'2" and 'big'. People crossed the street when they saw me coming. Got lonely after a while

Grew my hair back to stop being so scary (and I was surprised by the results!)

 

[Freefaller]

Being bald and big "should" make you look like a total hard nut.*

*In some cases it may not

It just suits me really, don't know if makes me look like a total hard nut though.

 

[Jonny L]

Being bald and big "should" make you look like a total hard nut.*

*In some cases it may not

I'm not big though so I'll just look silly

 

[dun]

I've got pretty thick body hair and its getting worse. The hair line is the best though. My hair line was receding before but at the moment, training as I am, it seems to be going back extremely fast. I'm only just 21 ha.

 

[Freefaller]

Wait till you're knocking on 30, you'll be happy. By then if you're training hard you will have built up a lot of muscle density and will look significantly better than you do now. So don't worry about hair, and don't worry about how you look now, because you're lucky you've all started training early so you have plenty of good things to come. I reckon by 35 I'm going to look hench and significant.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

You're hardly insignificant benching 150!

 

[shifty_uk]

I thought resistance training causing hair loss was an old wives tale?

Any research/articles to back this up?

 

[Bakedgoods]

Steroids would speed up hair loss in anyone who has inherited male pattern baldness but i'm not so sure about natural trainers.

It's possibly but i'm unsure, it certainly wouldn't be as pronounced.

 

[^TANK^]

My hairline is receding faster since training

 

[Dj_Jestar]

I thought resistance training causing hair loss was an old wives tale?

Any research/articles to back this up?

Maybe it is, and it is just coincidence that I have begun losing hair at the same time as training. However, there is the correlation that hair needs protein, muscles need protein.. when muscles need more protein, hair gets less protein.