advice in this book you can realize terrific gains and, relatively speaking, make
yourself into an easy gainer.The modern travesty
. As the numbers of sham gyms and instructors increase, so does the drivel
that is promoted as training instruction. Gyms concerned with maximizing
profit—wrapped up in sales of their various accessories, food supplements
and fashion clothing—have made a mockery of the gym business. It has got
to the point where the last place to look for a good coaching is in a modern
well-equipped gym.. Many gyms should issue the following notice to their members. Keep this
notice in mind should you ever hope to get good instruction from an appear-
ance-first gym.
is gym is all appearance and no substance. It is only because we have a lot of
fancy-looking equipment that we impress everyone who knows little or nothing
about training. Because we have spent a lot of money on marginal, useless and
sometimes dangerous equipment we must encourage our members to use it.
We never encourage the old-fashioned basic exercises. In fact, to save you from
being tempted to use the latter, you will never find a power rack or lifting plat-
form here, and the squat racks we have are flimsy and unused. Who on earth
wants to squat? Too much like hard work. Our instructors are as useless as we
are, though some of them have very good physiques due to excellent genetics
and use of steroids.
To deter you from using the time-proven most productive (but most uncom-
fortable) exercises, we have joined ranks with other gyms to perpetuate the
hokum that basic barbell exercises are dangerous and, at best, only useful forSome influential writers and coaches will gever “get it.” ey will
never admit they have superior genetics, thinking that because
they are not elite competitive bodybuilders they must be geneti-
cally typical. And many of these influential people do not have
typical family lives, but have almost optimal training conditions,
and often even have a background in drugs. It is no wonder that
their training advice has little or no connection with practical real-
ity for typical drug-free people. So the training masses continue to
be led astray!