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Lets start with the obvious...
Taking steroids is easy. There are a million stacks and combos you could do but lets face it...500mg of test can be injected once per week and if it is real then you are done worrying about that part of the equation.
Food...its gets a bit trickier at this point but while most of us have a hard time sticking with a diet...we all pretty much know WHAT we should be eating. I find more people know what they should eat but can't and that more people love to train but don't know how.
But then comes the training. Everyone has their own brand it seems. The main thing you hear from all around is "Do what works for you". Its on TV, the mags and the boards. But who the heck knows what works? Go heavy, go light, move fast, move slow, 5 days a week, 1 day a week, 20 sets, 1 set, machines are better, free weights are better, and on and on and on. Training is the one thing that is lacking in most peoples arsenol. I wonder sometimes what some peoples expectations are as far as gains...What do you think is a good gain and what do you consider working? 1 pound a month of muslce? 10 pounds on your bench? For me personally if I don't gain either on my poundage (even by 1 pound increments is a gain), my TUT (Time under tension, I don't measure repetitions because it is inaccurate) or (and this is more abstract) my form (Sometimes I will keep the weight the same in a movement and my time may not increase but i get a better contraction and my form is better in the exercise as a whole, I consider that progress because I have tamed a weight better than the last time and now I am ready to increase it again) then I am not happy.
How many people even keep track of your training accuratley enough to know whether or not they really improved? Do you keep track of your exact warmup? How many hours of sleep you had the night before? How many days in between workouts? What you ate before your workout? Your exact TUT (remember repetitions are inaccurate for good record keeping)? Exactly how much time in between sets? is your strength gain only a result of resting longer than the previous time? do you keep track of your mental focus on a scale of 1-10? can you relate the stress of your life (Whether it is high or low) to how your training is going? and there are a hundered other questions that could be listed.
Improved Training is a result of using the Scientific method to your advantage. You must THINK about what is going on and the most logical method of attack. To many of us change variables at random never knowing WHAT is helping and what is hurting...to many of us don't know WHAT to expect of training....what really is good progress?
My point in this post is not to give answers but to show you need to THINK. There are a million challenges to correct training so that there is never the perfect workout for the rest of your life...You must change and adapt to your situation constatly. But the change must be measured and not random.
and on one final side note :For some reason the majority of people cannot handle it psychologically when their training methods are challenged. I could tell someone that their steroid cycle is fucked up and what changes to make and more than less they will say "Thanks for the help" but if I tell someone that they need to do this or do that in training...they take it as a personal attack. I don't know the phenomenom of why it takes place but it happens. We have all seen it at the gym when you try to help a person out with their form and they snap at you like you are trying to steal their girlfriend. I get a lot of it here and in the gym since I am a bit more "different" than the rest. But accepting critisisms is a part of life...we can either let suggestions go by the way side or try to incoporate them. But I don't understand the defensivness of some people.
Discuss :D
Taking steroids is easy. There are a million stacks and combos you could do but lets face it...500mg of test can be injected once per week and if it is real then you are done worrying about that part of the equation.
Food...its gets a bit trickier at this point but while most of us have a hard time sticking with a diet...we all pretty much know WHAT we should be eating. I find more people know what they should eat but can't and that more people love to train but don't know how.
But then comes the training. Everyone has their own brand it seems. The main thing you hear from all around is "Do what works for you". Its on TV, the mags and the boards. But who the heck knows what works? Go heavy, go light, move fast, move slow, 5 days a week, 1 day a week, 20 sets, 1 set, machines are better, free weights are better, and on and on and on. Training is the one thing that is lacking in most peoples arsenol. I wonder sometimes what some peoples expectations are as far as gains...What do you think is a good gain and what do you consider working? 1 pound a month of muslce? 10 pounds on your bench? For me personally if I don't gain either on my poundage (even by 1 pound increments is a gain), my TUT (Time under tension, I don't measure repetitions because it is inaccurate) or (and this is more abstract) my form (Sometimes I will keep the weight the same in a movement and my time may not increase but i get a better contraction and my form is better in the exercise as a whole, I consider that progress because I have tamed a weight better than the last time and now I am ready to increase it again) then I am not happy.
How many people even keep track of your training accuratley enough to know whether or not they really improved? Do you keep track of your exact warmup? How many hours of sleep you had the night before? How many days in between workouts? What you ate before your workout? Your exact TUT (remember repetitions are inaccurate for good record keeping)? Exactly how much time in between sets? is your strength gain only a result of resting longer than the previous time? do you keep track of your mental focus on a scale of 1-10? can you relate the stress of your life (Whether it is high or low) to how your training is going? and there are a hundered other questions that could be listed.
Improved Training is a result of using the Scientific method to your advantage. You must THINK about what is going on and the most logical method of attack. To many of us change variables at random never knowing WHAT is helping and what is hurting...to many of us don't know WHAT to expect of training....what really is good progress?
My point in this post is not to give answers but to show you need to THINK. There are a million challenges to correct training so that there is never the perfect workout for the rest of your life...You must change and adapt to your situation constatly. But the change must be measured and not random.
and on one final side note :For some reason the majority of people cannot handle it psychologically when their training methods are challenged. I could tell someone that their steroid cycle is fucked up and what changes to make and more than less they will say "Thanks for the help" but if I tell someone that they need to do this or do that in training...they take it as a personal attack. I don't know the phenomenom of why it takes place but it happens. We have all seen it at the gym when you try to help a person out with their form and they snap at you like you are trying to steal their girlfriend. I get a lot of it here and in the gym since I am a bit more "different" than the rest. But accepting critisisms is a part of life...we can either let suggestions go by the way side or try to incoporate them. But I don't understand the defensivness of some people.
Discuss :D
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