Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

HOW THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
tively speaking. While easy gainers typically adhere to conventional training
routines, and often gain well from them, they gain far more when they adopt
programs like those described in this book.
Near-zero, easy and extremely easy gainers total about 15% of a random
sample of trainees, leaving 85% or so who are “regular” hard gainers that
get nowhere using popular routines. (ese approximate percentages are
strictly for a drug-free population. Drug use would distort the percentages.)
Hard gainers have a lot of potential for growth, but to realize it they must
train appropriately. e harder a gainer you are, the less room for error you
have in your total exercise, rest and nutrition program, and the more educated
you need to be. is book will educate you.
ough “hard gainer” is a well used term in the bodybuilding world in particular,
and also used in this book, it is actually a misnomer. Because hard
gainers are the majority it would be more accurate to call them “normal”
gainers. As it is, the term “hard gainer” implies a condition that is abnormal.
Whatever genetic potpourri you have been dealt is all you are going to get.
Whatever shortcomings you may have, you have to live with. Rather than
spend time complaining about your genetic fate, pour your energy into
achieving your genetic potential. An average or even a less-than-average
potential for bodybuilding, if achieved, is stunning to an untrained person,
and respected by almost any trained individual.
Focus on achieving your potential, not on comparing yourself with ideals.
Apply yourself intelligently and you may discover that what you thought
was a modest potential is actually a lot more.
If you are consumed with the achievements of others, enviously look at the
natural talents of a gifted but tiny minority, and bemoan your own genetic
fate, you will never deliver the consistent and savvy dedication needed to do
what will satisfy you most of all—the achievement of your own full potential
for muscle and might.
Application of training reality
BEYOND BRAWN will take you right “inside” weight training, to study the
practical reality of applying knowledge. It is not a theoretical treatise or pack
of pseudo-scientific claptrap. It provides the real-life, adaptable, flexible and
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