For ectomorphs, the journey to getting big and strong is filled with unseen difficulties and worries. One of the most popular concerns that sooner or later every one of us will have is: “All this lifting heavy weights is slowing me down. I want to get big but I want to be functional, too.” In [...]
December 2, 2009
Consistency is among the most important factors that determine whether or not you will reach your goal of getting big (other factors include: a great level of determination, a burning desire to get big, a good and specific plan, and a clear deadline). It is not difficult to go to the gym for a grueling [...]
November 30, 2009
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 [...]
November 27, 2009
Let’s say your goal is to gain 15 pounds of pure muscle in 15 weeks. But when the deadline comes, you only manage to gain 10 pounds. Clearly, that is a failure to reach your goal. However, the important question is: “After you have failed to reach your goal, what do think?” Did you ask [...]
November 25, 2009
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 [...]
November 23, 2009
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 [...]
November 20, 2009
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 [...]
November 18, 2009
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 [...]
November 17, 2009
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 11, 2009
For the three months that I focused solely on just training, my one and only desire was to become much bigger and stronger at the end of the 12 weeks. Now, besides my yearning for an awesome body, I have only two other burning desires: to be successful in my career (now that I am [...]
December 8, 2009