Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

1. Setting the Scene for
Building Muscle & Might
1.1 Unless you have a terrific genetic inheritance for muscle building, the conventional
approach that prescribes a traditional split routine, more weighttraining
days than non-weight-training days, lots of isolation exercises,
multiple exercises per body part, and a great many sets per workout, delivers
little or no gains. Full-body routines of too many exercises performed too
frequently are also unproductive for most trainees. Hundreds of thousands
of people are living testimony to this stark reality.
1.2 Bodybuilding, and strength training in general, are wonderfully rewarding
activities so long as you get satisfactory results. Regardless of genetics, gender
or age, each of us has tremendous power to improve physique, fitness and
health; but very few people fully exploit this power because so few people
train in a way that is truly appropriate to them.
1.3 e way most people train it is no wonder there is such a huge failure rate
and rapid turnover of members in most gyms. If only people would adopt
the radical and abbreviated format right from the start, rather than first having
to waste perhaps many years of their lives on conventional and inappropriate
training instruction. en the success rate for weight training would
spiral hugely, and the turnover rate in gyms would plummet.
1.4 Stop following instruction that you know is not working. You do not need
to be an expert to know if something is not helping you. More of what did
not help you over the last few months is not going to help you over the next few
months. Stop imitating the training of people who have genetic talent you do
not. And stop thinking that anything other than the basic combination of
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