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Welcome to tips on advanced weight training for increased muscle volume and definition.
WHY NO GAINS IN LEAN BODY MASS
This post is about how to build enhanced muscularity thru resistance training that will exceed your expectations especially if you have worked out long enough to know that in spite of every effort your gains remain modest or even insignificant.
Ask your self this question next time you go to the gym, how many people have you observed that have worked out for years that have produced hardly if at all any noticeable results even though appearances have it that their work outs are ambitious and rigorously demanding.
Before I share any special secrets on how to greatly enhance your physical strength and muscularity the most important issue before embarking on any weight lifting adventure remains that you must understand the importance of form in order to become injury resistant.
DECEPTION BY OBSERVATION
Unfortunately the way most people attempt to figure out proper form is to look around their gym, find some one who looks like they must know what their doing and model there behavior.
This, dear reader, is an enormous mistake!
If you were a trainer or informed you’d be appalled by how the great majority of people work out against them selves meaning towards marginal development and unnecessary injuries.
NO GAINS - - - FOR THE WRONG PAINS
To many gym veterans bench press with continual pain from inflamed rotator cuffs because they never took the time to understand the proper form.
In fact almost all who train for any length of time struggle unnecessarily with injuries that functionally impair them, because nowhere in the length of years of working out do they ever develop their knowledge of proper form.
Training without properly applied form i.e. poor biomechanics is like running with ones sneakers tied together mile after mile day after day continually stumbling bruised and bleeding until the pain and embarrassment exceed the will to continue.
Imagine spending money on a gym membership and working actively to destroy perfectly good knees necks hips and shoulders.
At least in a fender bender you can collect insurance.
AVOID INJURY BY LEARNING AND IMPLEMENTING PROPER FORM.
Form or biomechanics in resistance training is about understanding a given exercise in terms of dynamic movement in relationship to the infrastructure of the body to include muscles, joints, bones, and tendons.
In other words, how various parts of the body function together during all phases of repetitive or singular dynamic movement for the express purpose of avoiding injury and activating muscle growth.
THE ONLY RIGHT PAIN IS THE BURN IN A MUSCLE DURING CONTRACTION.
Good form remains the imperative for assuring as much as humanly possible that there are no injuries from a workout.
It remains plain to see that injuries can send you home and out of the gym, dashing any chance of your desired success for a along time, or even curtail your aspirations permanently.
A WORD ABOUT GYMS
Any gym with sound equipment is better then no gym at all and beats the hell out of all that home machinery, more about that later.
Equipment must be sound, meaning properly bolted, screwed and secured, not necessarily new.
IF THEY CARE ABOUT YOU….
A crummy gym is one with poor management and insufficient or dysfunctional equipment.
One day I walked into a local gym and while checking out the leg press machine I noticed its top weight was 400lbs. Anybody serious and seasoned sees this as a warm-up or mid-range weight. Many ambitious if not even serious men and women leg press way in excess of 400 lbs.
The point being, this management doesn’t understand their own industry, or doesn’t care, it’s just a business, a business they know little about. If they’re that out of touch, don’t give them the privilege of having you as a member.
The quality of the gym is critical as a factor in defining the scope and quality of your experience, i.e. your ability to get a great work out. This is less of a problem in more cosmopolitan areas due to the competition for memberships.
SALES PITCH
Don’t let high pressure sales staff sign you up with extended commitments or protracted training sessions, unless you’ve had a chance to evaluate the trainers, and determine whether you really need one and for how long.
There is a great range of skill and competence among them. Give yourself a chance to find out who is good and what programs you really want before you spend your money. In the beginning you will need a trainer to teach you how to use the equipment and free weights so that you are not injured. I touch on this in greater detail in my next post.
HOME EQUIPMENT FROM TV LAND
I have never seen any home equipment that is remotely comparable to authentic professional gym equipment. To its credit some of it is better then nothing.
If you are sincere and want to get in great shape forget home gyms. They are not designed for serious lifts, even the very best of them!
NEXT
In my next posting here on The Gym, Resistance Training and Fitness Towards Enhanced Muscularity and Safety I want to discuss how to evaluate trainers and explore accelerated muscle development through extreme intensity training.
I look forward to hearing from you at 1gymbum@gmail.com
Best,
Popeye
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