You Have A BIG Problem…
By Vince On January 6, 2010
Under Featured Post, Miscellaneous, Muscle Building Secrets
I’ll tell you what your problem is in a second.
It’s pretty messed up and it’s linked to three bigger problems…
But first, let me open this conversation with a question:
Do you agree that anything worth doing is worth doing well?
Weight training with the goal to ignite muscle gains or get super ripped should be no exception. This concept should be easy to grasp. And hitting the gym with the plan of building a good deal of muscle or to boost your metabolism (to shed fat) can require a lot of work – but other than breaking a sweat and pushing yourself, it should not be much harder than that. Right?
It’s this kind of thinking that leads to the FIRST big problem.
Most people who attempt to build muscle fail miserably. Sure, almost everyone reading this has experienced some sort of improvement and a small gain in muscle (or fat loss), but the majority never get to that next level.
The majority never look like the models on the magazines or good enough to shock their friends at a pool party while in their swim suit.
Despite dedicated efforts to training, nutrition, supplementation and most importantly – a true desire and thirst to be their best – most never blow beyond their genetic potential.
There are many reasons for this too common failure. If you asked me why this happens in person I would reply by shaking my head:
“Most people fail because they don’t have a clue of what they are doing.”
I’ll elaborate.
Most people approach the gym with a too simple approach: I’ll just hit the weights tonight and hope good things happen. I’ll push them and they’ll grow. I’ll push them more and they’ll grow again.
The idea of building muscle is simple and elementary. The act to do so sounds so easy. Despite this fact, many still fail.
Why?
They fail because they think they know what they are doing.
And I don’t blame that way of thinking. In the beginning, muscle gains came easy. No matter what routine was followed while a beginner, the body almost always awarded it with new growth.
Here’s the SECOND BIG PROBLEM…
The beginner is satisfied and associates the initial award in muscle gain with his past behaviour. Obviously, this leads to reinforcing the same behaviour by continuing down the same path.
Then things begin to change.
Progress begins to slow but the trainee continues to train even though the workouts are no longer working.
This leads to the THRID BIG PROBLEM…
The trainee continues to train but the workouts become randomized because the previous behaviour that produced gains is no longer working.
Since the training appeared to work in the past they are convinced it will work in the future and this thinking appears to be correct.
It is not.
Occasionally the muscle gains kick in again and slight improvements are made. But for the most part a new reward becomes the focus – maintenance!
Yes, the weight trainer is simply satisfied maintaining the initial gains he produced so long ago which becomes the motivation for continual effort.
The problem gets REALLY REALLY bad now…
Even though the rewards of maintenance are far less compelling then exploding new muscle all over the body, the fear of losing size is born. This leads to the complacent maintenance phase without a desire to even break out.
This leads to more randomization. More random workouts, random sets and more random exercises. Trying out new routines that are new are rarely improvements of the old but it’s typical to think, at first, that because it’s new it must be better.
Sadly this is a wearisome, merry-go-round that goes on for years and blanks out countless New Year resolutions.
If this sounds too familiar, you’re not alone.
There is a reason.
The problem is a lack of knowledge.
It has nothing to do with your genetics or any other excuse you can fathom.
And it’s going to STOP today.
Can I Ask You To Do Yourself A Favour?
Please do not employ any more training strategies without considering why it will be effective. Do not assume that it will be. I do not want you to join the “bad genes” huddle in the year 2010.
I have a solution for your problem.
They are called the 12 Anabolic Targets and they make up my brand new monthly series: Maximize Your Muscle.
http://MaximizeYourMuscle.com
If wight training was as simple as lifting weights and making your muscles grow, then all weight training programs would leave you rewarding results – but they don’t.
Most programs have the plateau built right into the program because they only target (if they are lucky) 1 or 2 of the 12 Anabolic Targets.
If you aren’t hitting these 12 anabolic targets, you’ll never grow past the size you are today…and I’ll prove it to you in just 30 days, FREE.
But HURRY, after this week, you will not be able to test drive Maximize Your Muscle for free ever again.
Vince
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A world famous fitness coach and author, Vince DelMonte is known as the top "Skinny Guy" expert and has helped more skinny guys and girls defeat their muscle unfriendly genes without drugs and supplements.
