Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

2. General Philosophy for
Outstanding Development
2.1 is book hammers away at the most important matters you need to stubbornly
hold onto for as long as you want to make the most of your weight
training. Here is the point-by-point general philosophy you need to train
and live by if you want to develop outstanding muscle and might. (is philosophy
is largely, but not entirely, described in the book BRAWN.)
2.2 ere are countless novices and intermediates who are swimming around
in the sea of marginal issues while neglecting the cardinal ones. ere are
young people who have been training for over ten years and yet still cannot
squat much over their bodyweight for 20 reps. Yet they are agonizing over
anything and everything related to training except for progressive poundages
in the big exercises.
2.3 Bodybuilding and strength training are almost laughably simple; but simple
does not mean easy. All that really matters is focus, and progressive poundages
in good form. Pick a handful of the biggest and best exercises for you
and then devote years to getting stronger, and then stronger still in them.
You can use variations of the basic movements for variety, but you do not
have to. ere is even danger in using variety because you can lose focus and
get caught up in an excessive assortment of exercises.
2.4 Do not search for the “definitive word” on basic gaining training. Once you
have found something that works well, and so long as it keeps working,
why spend time trying to find something else? Like so many other people, I
wasted many years trying to study all the maybes of training instead of just
applying one single certainty. What matters more to you, knowing all the
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