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 [...]
January 13, 2010
Here are the 6 steps that you must follow in order to gain muscle and get big. They were based on the 6 steps found in “Think and Grow Rich,” I simply substituted the word “muscle” for the word “money.” You will find these 6 steps in almost every good book or article on training [...]
December 27, 2009
I’m sure you must be a bit fed up with reading about training by now. So much text! Here is the classic Hitler clip from Downfall that will sure drive home some crucial principles of training for you. Enjoy.
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 you say to yourself: I [...]
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 10, 2009
It’s better to read books than blogs/forums/websites because you will get the whole picture instead of only fragments of it. Of course sometimes there are some good posts that capture the whole core of training in fewer than 1000 words. However, even then, there are a few problems with that: First, it is not easy to [...]
November 10, 2009
You don’t want to spend time reading any book on training. You just want someone to show you EVERYTHING instead of doing research yourself. You don’t want to spend at least 2-3 sessions to learn the right techniques (for Squat, Deadlift, etc.) You don’t bother to discover why you fail to complete the last rep of the last [...]
October 28, 2009
Start right now from where you are. Problems will arise along the way, but so will better tools to deal with them. You cannot just sit there and project the whole journey ahead of you. It’s simply impossible. Also, how many times have you promised yourself some goal just to forget totally about it or [...]
October 28, 2009
When you hurt yourself squatting with a rounded back, you learn never to squat like that again. After getting sick (and losing 5 to 10 pounds) for getting drunk as hell and running around in the snow with just a T-shirt on (sounds crazy, but I live in Maine, and I’m a student, trust me [...]
October 24, 2009
If you have done enough research, it should be clear to you that, in order to gain massive muscle (anywhere from 10 pounds to 60 pounds or more), these are the exercises that you MUST have in your training program: Squat: It is not easy to Squat. In fact, none of the exercises listed here are easy [...]
January 20, 2010