Muscle & Fitness UK – July 2019

JULY 2019/MUSCLE & FITNESS 135

FOREVER YOUNG

incorporates the mental and physical
methodologies I swear by.
“Maintaining a consistent bodybuilding
lifestyle today gives me the belief and the
certainty that tomorrow I will still train hard.
By reinforcing this daily it becomes a habit.
The habit, as I mentioned at the beginning of
this article, requires adequate nutrition and
supplementation in combination with a
personal training programme. I know, for
instance, that if I eat like normal people who
don’t exercise I will become
counterproductive, unable to perform at my
highest possible level during my training.
Most people give up training because they
don’t see results.
“There is no easy way to feel good and
look younger, especially as we age. We have
to train hard; we have to push ourselves to
the depths of our mental and physical
abilities in order to become conscious of the
positive effects this can produce, such as
slowing down the ageing process. Once you
realise the positive effects you won’t want
them to stop, so they will become easier to
maintain. Of course, there are always
excuses: for instance, hard training hurts
and can lead to injury or no one else is
pushing you hard so why bother. I strongly
believe from my own experiences that
nothing harmful or bad can occur from hard
and intense training as long as we listen to

our bodies and react appropriately. One good

thing about training hard is that the body and

mind will adapt and respond positively in

many ways, such as increased muscle

strength and size, improved strength and

endurance and a greater mental ability to

succeed.

“When I say training hard and intense I

mean training with good form, which means

performing a full range of motion from the

point of complete extension to full

contraction and continuing until muscle

failure. Muscle failure is when you can no

longer raise the weight in a perfectly strict

fashion without cheating by poor form,

sudden bursts of momentum or using

muscles other than the one you are

targeting. Working hard and intense under

restricted conditions will not be harmful for

your body and will help you to slow down the

ageing process. Training this way for many

years has made me aware of my mental and

physical potential for each training session.

Therefore I can do my very best without

guesswork and am in tune with what I can or

can’t do, which is highly motivational. My

knowledge and my experience are my guides

on my long road to longevity. I am very much

aware that fear can inhibit us while we train,

therefore I make sure I don’t under-train in

intensity. Of course, every day I have a new

or different challenge that I have to face and

deal with just like everyone else, such as low

energy or problems in my business or in my

personal life. But I always manage to train

hard and intense using the PPM System,

which I believe to be the most suitable

training system of all for longevity.

SO WHAT IS THE PPM SYSTEM?

The PPM System is a flexible training

system that incorporates all training

elements that stimulate muscle growth

• and you control it. I believe that
  incorporating different training elements
  is a much better system than the popular
  but limited and dangerous overload system
  that most people use. Training heavy is only
  one training possibility among an infinity of
  others that can stimulate muscle growth.
  It is motivational to have more than one
  approach to stimulating muscle growth and
  it keeps me safe from injuries and excited
  about each training session. So I regularly
  change my training cycles. Each cycle helps
  me to build a better one because each cycle
  gives me some answers – some positive,
  some negative but they all help me to design
  the next cycle providing I observe what
  works and what does not. There is no way
  you can maintain a very good shape or
  progress over a period of time if you limit
  yourself to one single training system,
  especially if this training system has