The TRUTH About Natural Lifting and Gains
Written by Fig
The TRUTH is there are no workouts that add 50 lbs of muscle in a year. There are no natural supplements that do that either. What the main goal of this page is to help inform, the uninformed. I was finally fed up with stupid sense-less magazines and money grubbing know it all web cites. I want to print the truth. I need your help printing the truth!!! If you have any questions or training tips, please e-mail me. I would like to thank all of you who have e-mailed in the past!!! If you like what I have written on this page then I would like to hear from you. If the current workout that you are doing works for you that is great!!! If you disagree with some or all of my training ideas that is also very good. Training ideas are not written in stone (God did not come down to Earth and give anyone the tablet of weight training). What works for me may not work for you. I have never seen anyone ever write that before. I will admit there are good and better ways to train. I have tried the “Super Slow” training by that quack Darden. I had no results. Of course his bodybuilders in his book gained weight. Who wouldn’t by consuming 6,000 calories or more a day. Also his scientific tests were done on animals not humans. I also did that “Bulgarian” workout. It only took a week for me to become overtrained (work your whole body each day for 4 days straight). I do not recommend that stupid workout. I really like the H.I.T. workout. It makes a lot of sense to me. Low sets and heavy weight are a good sign of what good programs are made of. I would stay away from any workout book that has to use dozens of professional bodybuilder pictures to help sell the book. Content is everything. Stay away from those Darden books. Here is a list of books I do like:
Brawn = I have not read it. I have read a lot about it. It sounds good to me. If you want to read more about brawn. Then check out the Hardgainer home page.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding = The best book to learn how to correctly perform exercises. It has some good advice on training, diets and posing . I do not recommend his workouts. His workouts take 3 or more hours to complete (if you do not believe me check out pages 190 to 193). His basic mass program looks okay (but, it is one of those work your whole body 2 or more times a week splits).
A good book should have a lot of content. The best books are written by bodybuilders not doctors (now if it is co-written with a doctor like as Arnold’s book, that’s a good thing). There are a lot of books out there that like to use big words to make their theroies look good. But, remember it all boils down to the workout. I just saw this web page that recomends 3 seperate workouts a day. Come on now who has the time to do that. The best workouts that I have seen are the ones that lift heavy with the minimum ammout of sets. Lifting like a marathon runner does not work.