Regarding how you often feel about training 02 Mar 10
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The biggest requirement for gaining muscle

February 11, 2010

The biggest requirement for gaining muscle

You have to always think about your goals. You have to know where you are on your journey toward reaching your goal. You have to know that there are always works to do. If you lay in bed and you feel like there is nothing to do regarding your goals, you’re wrong. There is ALWAYS something [...]

Why your friends can be a negative influence on your training journey

February 10, 2010

Why your friends can be a negative influence on your training journey

There are many reasons why we hang out with a particular friend instead of someone else. Obviously, the biggest reason is because we share many things in common with our friends. And thus, we can feel comfortable being around and talking with them. Our lifestyles and theirs convert more often than not. There are plenty of [...]

Interesting post X

January 30, 2010

Interesting post X

It all happens to us: even if you are the worst case of an ectomorph, the first few months (or few weeks) of going to the gym gives us amazing progress and noticeable changes to our bodies. Even if we did many things wrong, had insufficient rest and nutrition, we still got stronger and our [...]

Interesting Post IX [Video Clip]

January 27, 2010

Interesting Post IX [Video Clip]

This clip has already been embedded in some other posts on this blog, but I think it deserves a post just dedicated to it in this category. Still hesitate whether you should dedicate so much time, money, and energy to training? (It should be your top 1 or at most top 2 priority in life for [...]

Some updates on my journey

January 25, 2010

Some updates on my journey

I started to cut fat three weeks ago (i.e. I have incorporated running into my training program for three weeks now). As with when I started bulking up, everything did not go according to plan this time around either. Here are a few mistakes that I have made: I started running without first reading about it: I started [...]

The 5 benefits of training for a great physique you may not know about yet

January 22, 2010

The 5 benefits of training for a great physique you may not know about yet

For ectomorph people, gaining muscle/getting big is truly an up-hill battle. It seems like the whole world—everything and everyone—is conspiring against you and your dream of getting into the best shape of your life. Now and again, you are bound to doubt yourself: “Is it worth it?” “All these time, money, energy along with so [...]

Your perceptions of the importance and urgency of anything related to training

January 20, 2010

Your perceptions of the importance and urgency of anything related to training

When you have, let’s say, four tasks to finish, which one do you work on first? Obviously, the most important and urgent task first. Next come those urgent but not so important tasks and those important but not so urgent tasks. Tasks that are “perceived” to be neither very important nor urgent tend to be left [...]

Interesting Post VIII

January 18, 2010

Interesting Post VIII

After doing some research on how to gain muscle and get big, you probably have realized that there is so much information to learn, so many little things to worry about. Even though I have already narrowed down for you three great books on training to read (Starting Strength, Beyond Brawn, and Burn the Fat, [...]