Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

HOW TO PLAN YOUR GROWTH
a very abbreviated training program. Really put in some thought here. Finalize
some challenging but realistic goals. Chew them over; and then carefully
select the one or two that you are going to dedicate the next three months of
your training life to.
5.11 Break the target(s) down into a series of weekly goals, and produce a threemonth
program. Get down in black and white what you need to do with
your training, rest and sleep schedule, and nutrition. en knock off the
weekly installments of success. Like a competitive athlete closing in on a big
meet, deliver the goods every day, every week, every month.
TACTIC #2
Before-and-after shots
5.12 Have your photos taken this week, to display all your physique in a given
number of well-lighted poses. No matter how happy or unhappy you are
with how you look, get the job done so that you have a photographic record
of your current condition. If you are too embarrassed to have a professional
do it, get your spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend or sympathetic relative to do
it. But have it done seriously and as well as possible.
5.13 Set a six-month target, and give your all to improving your physique as
much as possible, with the litmus test being the next photo session. en
with proof in photographic print you can see what you did with the previous
six months of your life.
5.14 It is easy in bodybuilding and strength training to mull away time, go
through the motions, and lose track of the passage of time. Working in
six-month slots gives tremendous focus, and you will have a photographic
record of what you achieved over each six-month stretch. After each photographic
session, set another six-month deadline with an even more determined
effort to make the next six months your most productive training
period ever.
5.15 Be meticulously consistent about the conditions used for each photo session.
Consider if you have poor lighting, a hairy and untanned body, unkempt
long hair, long baggy shorts, and poorly focused photos of amateurish and
clumsy poses for one session. en, next time, after a haircut, you have
excellent lighting and sharp photography, and a shaven and tanned physique
posed professionally in a well-fitting swim suit. You will look dramatically
better in the second batch of photos even if your physique is unchanged.
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