...Priorities and dedication
. Having control, as each of us does, over the form, development and strength
of our bodies is a marvelous power. ink about it for a few moments. But
are you really making the most of it?. You need to give your training a very high priority in your life. Make the
time for your workouts. Switch off the and get to sleep in good time. Be
stubborn about ensuring you recuperate adequately. Make time to prepare
good meals often enough to meet your nutritional needs. Give your body
the chance to restore itself. Find time to do your stretching. Exercise the
discipline to stay clear of things that will undermine your progress. Develop
the fortitude to ignore the negative matters and people that get in the way of
your training and your life in general.. Many if not most people believe they can tolerate rule breaking as far as
health and training precepts are concerned. In your teens and twenties it
may appear that you can get away with the corner cutting. But just wait
a few years—then what you apparently could get away with will seriously
mar your progress in muscle and might, and start to play havoc with your
health.. While a few people can manage on less sleep than the typical person, they
are few and far between. And most of those who think they need relatively
little sleep are kidding themselves. ey need their eight or more hours of
sleep each night when in hard training, in order to make their fastest prog-
ress. Do not short change yourself on sleep.. Your training should be your number one leisure time activity if you are to
realize your full potential. Or it has to be your sole leisure time activity if you
get very little time to yourself. It is that demanding.. Of course the practical constraints of real life—e.g., sickness and heavy
demands of work and family—have a tempering effect on even the most
determined commitment to a training regimen. e more those demands
obstruct your application, the poorer will be your progress in muscle and
might.. No matter how rough your life gets, so long as you are truly disciplined you
can nearly always find time for a very abbreviated training program, and fix
things so that you get your feeds on time (some of them from pre-prepared
liquid food stored in a flask), and get your full quota of sleep most nights.