Secrets of Body Building

My Friends Said, What The Hell Happened To You?

At the end of 10 years of weight training I could bench 200 lbs. Eighteen months later I was ripped beyond my wildest dreams and could bench over 400lbs. Let me show you how you can, too.
P.S. (no dope)


Body Image Paradigm:

When I was in my twenties I wanted to be 6’2’, lean but muscular, sandy haired, defined, athletic, and did I mention extremely intelligent, well read, talented, very wealthy and of course respected by men and adored by women.

I am not complaining at 61, but here’s the point, the best any of us can do is realize our potential and chances have it, you will get a lot of what you require out of life, but not without a whole lot of effort.


Do you train with weights, and not have enough to show for it?

Almost all people I have observed use weights like scampering jack rabbits, meaning they throw the weights, jerking them, and pump out their sets as fast as they can to avoid at all cost “the burn”, the very reason they are performing the lift in the first place, and unfortunately not hardly engaging their muscle fibers at all. Most all folks when they train work out in general by grabbing a weight so light that they can lift it repetatively eight, ten, twelve, even fifteen times.
This is like only multiplying ones, fractions, or may be even zeros.

If you can lift a weight consecutively you are not even close to a full muscle contraction, which remains required for optimized muscular activation. From this old trainers point of view, a kind of hurry up, get through and finish up, a fake work out scenario.

What’s so funny or sad, however, is in most cases people remain completely dedicated to this relatively fake workout for years. In other words they go through the motions of the exercise without actually doing it, day after month after year, enjoying no doubt the illusion of training, except for the little problem of making any real or meaningful gains in lean body mass.


Does Your Method of Weight Training Make Sense?

Many years ago I walked in to a gym that I had just joined, looked around to get a feel for the place and observed and was shocked by what could only be called a remarkable work out.

Can you imagine after spending over a decade and a half in gyms being utterly blown away by observing a method of lifting that I had never seen before. I knew it was brilliant the moment I saw it.

The thing that was brilliant about it was how perfect the form, exquisitely slow the cadence, how heavy and demanding the lift, and how focused the concentration, and yes, the guy was mega ripped.


Training Outside The Box:

The revelation is this, when you lift very, very slowly, prolong the movement, drag it out, stop jerking the weights, which is just taking the work of the workout, you really accomplish muscular transformation, especially if the weight is sufficiently heavy so that 3 to 2 reps is all that’s possible. Let yourself feel every inch of the burn through the movement and completely concentrate on your desired transformation. At the moment of a perfect rep you can’t help but feel the increased resistance, intensity, and authenticity of the lift. This is why you are training; it is why you go to the gym.
It’s the real thing!


Check out my next article here on The Gym, Resistance Training and Fitness towards Enhanced Muscularity and Safety where I will reveal static holds training, the mother of all workouts.