- diet composed of nutritious food rich in protein—the most food I could
eat without getting fat. I would not have had a phobia of fat in my diet, and
would have eaten generously of foods containing the essential fatty acids.
I would only have eaten natural foods while avoiding junk, hard fats, fried
food, and overheated oils. Protein powder and vitamin and mineral tablets
would have been the only supplements I would have consumed. Never
would I have been permitted to get caught up in fad diets and extremes. My
mentor would repeatedly drum into me the belief that anything that sounds
too good to be true is usually exactly that.The rewards
. I would have been experiencing the most motivating feedback possible
from my unrelenting efforts on the mighty fivesome—bigger muscles from
month to month. I would never have forgotten that results are what count
most of all.. Never would I have been allowed to waste time fiddling with my training
according to fads. By denying me this freedom my mentor would have kept
my attention where it needed to be, enabling me to make almost continuous
gains. “And what’s training all about?” he would ask me each week, but never
actually let me answer. “Progressive poundages in good form, m’lad—get-
ting bigger and stronger muscles.”. Of course everything cannot be plain sailing, not even in the utopian train-
ing world just described. I would still have had out-of-the-gym constraints
to cope with. But because these constraints would have been on the back of
a sound training program, I would still have made steady progress towards
the realization of my strength and size potential. But if I had had these con-
straints on top of the sort of training program that most people use, I would
have made little or no progress towards the strength and physique I craved.e points in this chapter may seem dictatorial. But if all of this
chapter was written in stone, and laid down as law in all gyms the
world over, the instruction would work for so many people for so
much of the time that it would probably be the most important
contribution to Iron Game history.