I generally do not spend much time on bodybuilding.com because I got all the knowledge needed for training from the few books that I have already advocated in the “Books you should read” category: “Starting Strength,” “Think and Grow Rich,” and “The 7 habits of highly effective people.” There are two other books that will [...]
How many times have you heard these?
You have to sleep at least 8 hours in order to gain muscles
You must incorporate Squat, Deadlift, and Press into your program
You have to eat humongous amount of food to get big, and you cannot skip meals either
Etc.
Every time hearing something like that, immediately you say to yourself: I [...]
Most people dive into working out without first learning about the correct forms, or for that matter, which exercises to perform. Initially, every body makes progress, but it always stalls after a few months. Especially for ectomorphs, we quickly come to realize that the gym is not really helping much at all. What’s next? We [...]
You have to understand the principles of working out. Why? Because if you just want somebody to come along and hand you a program to follow, then you need to know this, a program is set up according to a rigid set of principles. It has to satisfy all the requirements of these principles in [...]
Here are the two questions you should ask yourself before listening to anybody about your training method:
1. Is the suggestion applicable to my case?
What applies to someone else does not necessarily apply to you. Here are just a few reasons why that may be the case: 1. The other person has a different body type [...]
Most of your friends and family are not ectomorphs. Meaning? They don’t know squat about what it is like to be an ectomorph. They can imagine, but they don’t really KNOW. They don’t know what it feels like to always be the skinniest kids around. They don’t know what it feels like to always be [...]
November 30, 2009