— .... Suppose you can bench press pounds for eight good-form reps. Ten
percent of is pounds; so, in the bench press, live to add pounds to
it. Building the strength to get the additional pounds for eight good-form
reps will take one or two training cycles. is is not so far in the future as to
seem out of reach. But it will still be challenging.. A poundage gain for beginners and intermediates is no big deal, but
for an advanced man it is too lofty a goal for the medium term. Adding
when you can already bench press pounds is usually a darn sight harder
than adding to a current bench press of only pounds. When
goals become beyond what you can gain over the short-to-medium term,
switch to -poundage-gain targets.Fantasy-land muscular girths
. For drug-free typical bodybuilders the muscular girths of the competitive
elite are light years removed from our reality, including our reality even after
years of sound training. Draw motivation from elite-level accomplishments,
but get your feet firmly back to earth when it comes to designing and imple-
menting your own training program. If you do not do this you will tread the
same road to training ruin that millions have already travelled.. e top men are astonishingly big and strong, but are notorious for exag-
gerating their lifts and muscular girths. And it is not just the top men who
do this. Plenty of big and not-so-big men add a fictitious inch or two to each
of their muscular girths, and knock off an inch or few from their waist mea-
surements. An -inch arm is huge, and a -inch arm is enormous. But men
with -inch arms tag on two fictitious inches to make the magic , and
those with -inch arms inflate their measurements to or more. A -inch
arm is very big, but that, too, is usually added to, to stand comparison with
other exaggerated measurements.. But both the actual and inflated measurements and exercise poundages are
irrelevant when it comes to you, your training and your goals. Get real about
what matters most as far as training is concerned—you and your training.Reality-land muscular girths
. If a successful hard gainer accurately measures his contracted upper arm
at say –. inches (which is one heck of an achievement for a drug-free
and lean genetically typical man) and then reads of a top liner whose arm is