Sometimes it can be helpful to know how some other bodybuilders train.
And sometimes it can be helpful to keep in touch with supposed advances in training-related matters.
But what should matter most with regards to your bodybuilding, and how to train, is making progress.
HARDGAINER magazine provides different interpretations of abbreviated training because just one rendition of how to train doesn’t work well for everyone.
Find an interpretation of abbreviated training that works for you—which usually requires some trial-and-error experimentation—and then apply it with dogged persistence.
Don’t over-intellectualize how to train.
And watch out for seeking the “perfect” routine. Once on that slippery slope you’ll almost certainly join the majority of bodybuilders who are buried under an ever-increasing mass of matters that are marginal at best, and harmful at worst.
Had food supplements never been invented, had there never been any bodybuilding drugs, and had there never been any equipment development beyond the free-weights essentials, the unswerving application of what we teach in this magazine would yield much more progress for the great majority of bodybuilders than what’s being delivered today, despite all the supposed (and even actual) advances in training knowledge and equipment.
Don’t waste a chunk of your life before learning this. Learn it now if you haven’t already.
So few trainees learn it, though, and nearly all who do must first waste years of their lives before they finally see the training light.
Most other bodybuilders stop working out due to dissatisfaction and disappointment from poor results. So they miss their chance to build terrific physiques, and fail to derive the tremendous benefits for health and longevity that result from training properly over the long-term.
Dedication properly applied to abbreviated, basics-first training doesn’t just deliver muscle and strength.
Such training is tremendously satisfying in itself because it brings workout-by-workout enjoyment from realizing small increments of progress with relentless consistency.
Such training makes you feel good.
You revel in the enjoyment, and apply even more zest to your workouts.
And then you may make better progress still.
When you have a terrific workout, and then shower and have a good meal, you’ll experience the training high, and should feel like you could walk on water.
Make the absolute most of your training. Make each workout count!
This article, by Stuart, is from one of the issues of HARDGAINER in Vol. 1 of BODYBUILDING GOLD MINE—the start of the digitization of HARDGAINER magazine. For further information, please click here.