Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

GENERAL PHILOSOPHY FOR OUTSTANDING DEVELOPMENT
2.64 Be a credit to the Iron Game. Train, but do not make a fuss and commotion.
Leave the bragging and showing off to those who do not know any better.
Practice modesty. And never forget that there is a lot more to life than training
and muscles.
2.65 If you have invested a lot of time and effort on conventional training, you
may feel attached to it despite it having delivered so much frustration. To
start over with a radically different approach is an admission that you previously
had it wrong. Have the courage to acknowledge the errors of the past,
and the fortitude to start anew. Break away from the crowd who stick with
the norm, even though they are going nowhere on it. What you want most
of all is personal progress, not the contentment from being one of the crowd.
ere is no more time to waste. Clean the slate, and do not harp on about
mistakes made in the past. en start anew, and with passion.
2.66 To keep yourself on the track of abbreviated and basics-first training, stroll
into almost any gym. A glimpse of the skinny youths imitating the training
done by the elite should be enough to remind you of the mess that conventional
training is in. e youths follow hyped-up routines and isolation
exercises. ey spend lots of money on food supplements but too little on
quality food. ey use all the paraphernalia that bodybuilders are supposed
to—gloves, belt, fashion clothing and expensive training shoes. And they
consume special workout drinks. But they will still have their sub-15-inch
arms if you visit them in six months time, or even six years time supposing
they have not long since given up.
2.67 Serious hard gainers are not lazy. We would like to be able to train a lot,
because training is enjoyable. But much more enjoyable is experiencing good
results. We use abbreviated and basics-first training because it delivers the
best results, not because it is a cop out from long and frequent workouts.
2.68 ere is not much if anything that is really new in the training world. What
is “new” is usually just a twist on an old idea. With a dose of creative lingo
and modern-day advertising hoopla, even something that has been around
for decades can appear new. If you could go back to the early twentieth century
you would be surprised at how much of bodybuilding and lifting as
we know it today was being routinely done in those days. And the roots of
plenty of today’s training equipment and ideas go back much further. But
because ideas and equipment are often presented today as being “new” and
“modern,” and because so few people know anything about the history of the
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