[...]... you
to the detriment of your health, family and career, you have
to be addicted
to the iron, sights and sounds of
the gym,
the challenge of “one more rep,” and
the accumulation of small bits of iron
on the bar You need
to almost worship
the soreness you suffer
on the days after a hard workout And you need
the required patience in order not
to rush and ruin your progress You must find training
to be... proportions e first casualty of drug use is
the truth Some bodybuilders and strength athletes who only got
to the top because they had drug assistance are still claiming that they never took chemicals Usually they are dishonest because they are ashamed of their drug use, and do not want
to tarnish their clean public images And some even promote
the charade that they were hard gainers While
the harm to. .. experience other than
the competitive elite It is not an
encyclopedia on the whole of weight training e omitted aspects are readily available elsewhere and include physiology, pondering
on the mechanism of
muscle growth, detailed descriptions of macronutrients, nutritional breakdown of food, updates
on the ever-changing food supplement scene, and history of
the Iron Game As interesting as these concerns... would make all
the dedication worthwhile When it finally dawned
on me that after years of rabid dedication I did not have
the physique that I had targeted, I was devastated
To invest so much into one target, and then fail
to get
to that target, produces extreme frustration and disappointment
The best way . So much for doing things in
the wrong way What you want
to know is
how to do things
the right way... norms is is done for one reason only
to provide all hard-gaining trainees, even extreme hard gainers, with
the instructional tools they need in order
to make good progress Building impressive physiques and strength levels should not be
the right of just
the gifted minority Learn from
the very costly experiences of those who have been through
the mill of desperate frustration with conventional training... though there are fat hard gainers Hard gainers respond poorly, or not at all,
to conventional training methods . . Of course, as easy gainers close in
on their drug-free potential for
muscle and
might they can find gains hard
to make But until they got
to that point they found gains easy
to make, almost regardless of what type of program they used ey trained, and they grew But the. .. squatting, then
to battle
on with
the squat is foolish (Note that nearly all
the “you must squat” advocates are themselves blessed with very good mechanics for
the squat.) . Some people are simply not designed
to become very strong, though of course most people can become much stronger But many of these people have very aesthetic body structure So rather than try
to make themselves into something they... listened
to those “wimps” who urged a conservative approach
to training, and had I listened more
to my own body, then I would not have caused
the long-term damage that I did Today I promote a conservative approach
to training in general, and
to exercise selection and technique in particular Experience has taught me that
the conservative approach is not only
the safest way, it is actually
the most productive... no exception
To dip into this book, and selectively pull statements and segments out of context, will neither do
the book justice nor your weight-training education ere is so much vital information crammed into this work and it is all interrelated e book needs
to be studied from cover
to cover
To experience
the full force of this book you need
to read it more than once, and then, in both
the near... going
to help you, unless your good attitude keeps you persisting until you find a good program, a good program together with a poor attitude is no good . Be alert
to your thoughts Stand back from your mind and watch what goes
on in there Notice
how much negativity there is Put
the negative thoughts aside as soon as they appear e ability
to concentrate
on the positive will come without trying, so long . for muscle and might owes it to themselves to read, grasp and apply the training information contained in . is book is the bible of rational. Ph.D.Publisher, BEYONDBRAWNStuart McRobert The Insider’s Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle & Might CS PUBLISHING LTDNICOSIA,