Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

TACTIC #4
Video tape your lifting
HOW TO PLAN YOUR GROWTH
5.21 Rather than a pure-appearance focus, spend a long while focusing purely
on getting stronger. Get yourself on video tape while performing your best
sets. en schedule yourself to be recorded performing the same exercises
six months later. Gear the next six months of your life to increasing your
strength as much as you can.
5.22 Assemble a good routine, keep the focus on progressive poundages in good
form, keep remembering the video recording to come, raise the intensity of
your work, become possessed in the gym, and get plenty of rest between
workouts.
5.23 Come deadline time you will have a good bit more on the bar for each
exercise, for the same reps you used six months earlier. Get a straight comparison
on video tape. See the improvement. en apply yourself to getting
stronger still, and come back for another recording session after a further six
months.
TACTIC #5
Landmark years
5.24 Once you are over 30 years old, you may come to see certain birthdays as
landmark points—35, 40, 45 and 50, for example. Set each of these birthdays
as video taping days for physique and lifting. And of course each one of
these landmark recordings should see improvement relative to the previous
one. Gear the in-between years for keeping you on track to becoming better
as you get older.
5.25 Bodybuilding and strength training are wonderful activities for many reasons,
one of them being their potential for enabling you to improve with
age, even well into your middle years. (e older you are when you start, the
older you can be and still make progress in strength.) And when you start to
regress due to aging, work hard to hold onto as much strength as possible.
en, because your peers will deteriorate much faster than you will, you will
continue to get better, relatively speaking, as the years go by. Exercise keeps
you young.
5.26 Rise to the challenge of proving all this. Get yourself down on video tape on
each of your landmark birthdays. Remind yourself daily of the importance
of doing your utmost every day to be better next time around.
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