...Individual experimentation
. e studying of training and nutrition is great, and needed, but the purpose
of it all is to help you build a stronger and better developed physique, not
just educate you for the sake of it. Apply the learning with every ounce of drive
and desire you have got.. Be sure you stick with a program long enough to pass fair judgement on it.
You have to investigate something seriously, understand what you are doing,
apply it to your own situation, fine-tune it, and then dedicate yourself to a
few months of it before passing judgement, perhaps with further fine-tuning
as you go along.. is book provides you with different interpretations of basic and abbre-
viated training because just one rendition does not suit everyone. Find an
interpretation that works well for you—but a number of interpretations
will probably work for you. is discovery involves experimentation. Once
you have found an interpretation that works well for you, get on with apply-
ing it—again and again and again.. Do not worry if you are not training precisely like how someone else suc-
cessfully trains. Do not agonize over your training not being “perfect.” Do
not intellectualize matters excessively. And never drop a productive program
merely because you are tempted to try something else. Only change some-
thing that does not work.. Remember what I wrote in the segment Failure of “One Size Fits All” in
Chapter :
Avoid seeking the “perfect” training routine. Once on that slippery slope you
will join the mass of trainees who are buried in all the peripheral, downright
irrelevant or even destructive aspects of training. Instead, knuckle down, long-
term, to paying the necessary dues on basic, straight-forward, sound and abbre-
viated training programs as described in this book.Be on your guard!
. When gains are not happening in the gym, and life seems to be all toil and
no reward, watch out. is is when you will be most vulnerable to falling
foul of bogus quick fixes to your problems. Be on your guard!. ere are many tactics used by those who make money off the dreams of
hard gainers. One of them is selling mega-hype training courses supposedly