Beyond Brawn - The Insider's Encyclopedia on How to Build Muscle && Might

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beginners who are not fortunate enough to train in a modern well-equipped
gym like ours. is is convenient for us, though, because we barely know the
first thing of instructing safe and productive technique in the biggest and best
barbell exercises. We promote the idea that you need a wide variety of isolation
and machine exercises in every workout.
We make exercise fun. You can watch yourself in the many mirrors we have,
listen to music we entertain you with, talk while you train, and ogle the skimpily
clad bodies of the genetically blessed, sensual female instructors we employ to
keep you (men) interested in renewing your membership. Training here is fun,
and fun means lots of members, though few of them stay long term. We depend
on a constant influx of new members to make a profit.
Welcome to this gym. We promise we will not push you hard, and we hope you
will enjoy your time here. at is, you will enjoy it until you realize that the
methods we promote will not help make you big and strong unless you have
fantastic genetics or are pumped up with steroids. Or like our regulars you will
decide to forget about getting big and strong, and come here only for social
contacts and visual kicks.

Grit and character
. No matter how you look at it, if you want to get much bigger and stronger
you have got to pay your dues. is means knuckling down to hard work
in the gym, and, when out of the gym, being conscientious and disciplined
enough to ensure good daily nutrition and adequate rest and sleep. e buck
stops with you. You either deliver, or you do not.

. While your training and related activities should not obsess 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 heaven on earth and, when in the gym, live to train.

. You will have serious setbacks. You will get injured. You will overtrain for
long periods. You will get misled. You will have sustained periods of desper-
ate frustration. Family, education, personal and career concerns will get in
the way. rough all of this you must maintain your zest for training.

. Never will you even contemplate packing it in. Even if temporarily you can-
not train, your desire will never be extinguished. You will find something
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