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OBSERVATION: Simple observation and limiting certain facets can tell you so much about what you are supposed to be doing in bodybuilding. Observation! What are the two times a bodybuilder gets the largest the fastest? Simple observation tells you that newbies in their first 2.5 years of s lifting are the first time and the second time is when that same person gets on steroids. What happens during those two times? A newbies strength goes thru the roof up by leaps and bounds in his first two years, he gains strength hand over fist, 25 lb dumbell presses turn into 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 80lb dumbell presses for reps...squats go from 135 lb squats to 155, 185, 205, 225, 245, 275lb squats for reps. And then all the gains slow down. This same lifter later on goes on steroids and what happens? He again gains strength hand over fist, 80lb dumbell presses turn into 90, 105, 115, 125, 135, 140lb dumbell presses for reps...squats go from 275 lb squats to 295, 315, 365, 405, 455, 495lb squats for reps. So what SHOULD that tell you? That strength gains on key productive exercises and progressive weights are the key! Im not talking singles or 3's im talking reps in any rep range you deem safe for yourself, the key is train progressively. Scenario
#2: This whole volume argument that goes on and on for infinity. Observation: Do you and others have weak bodyparts? Why? Because its simply because you arent doing enough volume for them? No the reason is because you havent found the correct mechanical positions training wise to improve that bodypart. Its your fault! (CONTINUED IN POST
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#2 Scenario 2: Is that guy Jimmy over there going to get gigantic legs if he does do 25 sets of leg extensions after warmups? No he wont because Jimmy is not in the best mechanical positions to build massive legs no matter if its a massive amount of volume or not. Is his twin Billy going to have a much better chance of building massive legs if he does (after warmups) two all out incredible work set of squats for 12 and 20, and two all out worksets of leg press for 16 and 30, and two all out sets of hacks for 12/20 and 2 all out sets of belt squats for 12/20. Yes Billy's quads are going to be massive and his 8 sets are going to destroy Jimmy's stick legs and 25 sets and volume did not matter. It was the mechanical positioning that mattered! The key is putting yourself into key mechanical positions and being progressive with those exercises until you reach a strength plateau. Then what do you do? You find an old or new very valuable mechanical positions to get in and then take that up to a strength plateau. Rinse and repeat for your whole bodybuilding career. Remember that awesome goto exercise that always works for you? It finally made that bodypart grow and it was and still is so key for you!? It wasnt volume was it? You finally found the right mechanical position to be in!! It was the mechanical position that did it! (CONTINUED IN POST
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#3 You have been lifting for 8 years and you still have a subpar bodypart. Maybe its arms maybe its chest, maybe its backwidth. Obviously you have proven to yourself that what you have been doing exercise wise for the last 8 years isnt working to bring up that bodypart has it? Do you really think doing more volume and sets of what you have already proven to yourself DOES NOT WORK is going to change anything? Its not volume...its your fault that you have not found the mechanical positions your unique proportions and genetics structure needs to be in. (CONTINUED IN POST
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#4 Scenario 3: This whole "you dont need to lift hard to gain muscle" thought process going on. Do you have unbelievable genetics? No? Then lets take that out of the equation and limit certain facets. If you use enough drugs virtually anyone can grow no matter if they do things correctly or incorrectly right? Then lets take them also out of the equation shall we? Welcome to the greatest scientific study ever done on the sport of bodybuilding. Just OBSERVE! Remember 10 years ago, remember 5 years ago, remember last year all those guys 20 to 50 years old you have seen training in all these gyms across the USA that never change? They looked the same years ago and they will look the same 5 years from now when you say hello to them in the gym once again. Those guys are in every gym in America...millions of them! Just go look! Observe them. They talk and socialize and go thru the motions but they dont get after it, they are just there with the boys hanging out and lifting. Whats the one resounding fact? DO YOU SEE THOSE GUYS GETTING HUGE? No they arent! They don't train hard!!! Across the USA. It's the greatest number of non hard trainers you could ever gather together. They are not getting big! If those millions of guys who dont train hard dont prove it to you I dont know what else to tell you. (CONTINUED IN POST
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#5 Scenario 4 : The following is so beyond simple I almost feel idiotic to say it. Lets keep god given genetics out of it. We will put drugs back in. Lets Observe. Natural or unnatural...who are the guys with size in the gym? They are the guys lifting heavy slag iron over in the corner bombing away TRAINING HARD! Squatting, deadlifting, pressing heavy slag iron for reps. Its been done for 60 years!!! Its has always worked! The wheel aint broken, there is no need to fix it. The human body does not want to be 230 to 270lbs of muscle mass. Do you really believe "not training hard" is the way to force it into remodeling itself into 230 to 270lbs of muscle mass? I dare you, absolutely dare any of you reading this to go train a natural bodybuilder who has 5 plus years of training under his belt and tell him "Dude we are going to get you up to the next level in size, and do you know how? Wait for it...By not training hard". Drugs screw up peoples deductive reasoning so badly on what truly works and what doesn't because 'drugs work almost regardless'. Virtually the only way to get a natural guy with a lot of training years under his belt larger is to seriously go to the well and back with weights and reps. It is virtually the only way to force him beyond the homeostasis the human body so desperately wants. (CONTINUED IN POST
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#6 I wish so many people could think along the lines of "What would natural me do" and also just observe power in numbers and it would answer so many questions for yourself. Ask yourself the questions? If you are an 13 second sprinter in the 100 are you going to become an 11 second sprinter in the 100 by jogging? How are you going to force yourself to remodel and become faster? Then why approach bodybuilding the same way? Go look in your gym at the number of people who NEVER CHANGE...what are they doing? That will tell you so much about what you NEED to be doing. "Hey Dorian, do you know what you needed to do to become even bigger as a freak in the 90's? Man you blew it buddy! You needed to not train hard". I dont get it and I sure dont get this huge emphasis people put on volume. That psycho trainers 6 sets does more trauma than that lackadaisical trainers 22 sets so how the heck do you measure intensity across the board? This is all about YOU finding the correct mechanical positions to be in and being progressive with them and recovering and then doing them again. Doing countless sets on exercises that you have proven dont work for your unique makeup = more of what hasn't worked for you. Again go to thousands of gyms and OBSERVE the greatest bodybuilding study of what you should not or should be doing.
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