Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

BEYOND BRAWN
the next 6–12 months moving to 200 × 6, 200 × 20, and 250 × 20 would
have made another big difference.
3.14 Investing obsessive focus over the next 6–12 months, and using the 5% mentality
to build up to 240 × 6, 245 × 20 and 300 × 20, would have built quite
a fine physique. After investing another 6–12 months to work slowly up to
265 × 6, 275 × 20 and 340 × 20, I would have been going places for a hard
gainer. en, still centering on the same mentality and the same key exercises,
had I concentrated myself with nothing other than getting to 285 × 6,
300 × 20 and 365 × 20, I would have experienced another important step
forward. I would have become bigger and stronger than nearly all drug-free
trainees in any gym of the world, and all before my twentieth birthday. And
if I had wanted to get bigger still, I would have kept the poundage-gain mentality
going and going and going.
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I should have stayed with the same exercises for year after year,
and persisted with the same productive formula. My wise dictator
would have shielded me from anyone who might have offered
negative comments on my training.
Beyond the big five exercises
3.15 In this ideal world I would not have concentrated solely on the mighty fivesome.
Another few areas would have gotten some specific attention. Midsection
work, i.e., side bends and crunch situps, would have been done almost
every week, once a week for each movement. Specific work for my shoulder
external rotators, using a dumbbell, would have been done once a week when
I was experienced enough to be bench pressing my bodyweight for 6 reps.
Calf work would have been done once or twice each week. Some thick-bar
grip work would have been included, together with some other specialized
hand and finger exercise. Direct neck work could have been included once
a week, along with a set or two of back extensions on non-deadlifting days.
Curls would have been done if supinated lat-machine pulldowns were not
in the current routine.
3.16 In my teens and twenties I had no interest in the leg press, falsely believing
it to be an exercise only for people who were looking for an excuse not to
squat. My imaginary mentor would have known better. I should always have
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