Get Big Tomorrow

Written by Fig

Why do people workout and not make any gains? I’ll tell you why. Most people go into the gym to move weights and not workout with them. My arms measure 19 ½ cold, I usually do dumb bell curls with the 50s and 60s. I have large arms, and most of the time I see people swing up the 50s. They think that just because they can move the weight, they are using the proper weight. Good gains will only be made by using the proper amount of weight. The muscle cannot tell if you are using 50 pounds or 30 pounds, if you use momentum to move the weight. I use heavy weight because my body has adjusted to such poundages. I do not expect anyone to use the same weight I am using, when they have 14″ arms. All I can recommend is that everyone should leave their ego at home and go to the gym, to workout and not cheat their gains. You will get better gains, if you use a weight that you can move under full control. I see too many people who bounce the weight off their chests, arch their back, and swing the weight up. These techniques do not work. The purpose of going into a gym is to stimulate muscle growth, and not to show off what you can do. I can easily go curl the 80s or 90s for cheat reps, but how will that help me in the long run, it won’t. You got to tell yourself the truth about what your capabilities are. I run into this problem almost every bench day. I want to add huge amounts of weight and perform terrible form , but I know that if I do that, I won’t see any gains the next week. I see some people over estimate their strength. They start off with 135 on the bench, then they go straight to 225 (the strongman weight) and then try to force out 4 reps, when they should have been lifting 155 or 165. Strength will come with time. You got to have a plan. A simple plan is this. Make a simple (honest) pyramid of what you can really do with good form. Then week after week add 2 ½ to 5 pounds to the bar, on the 3rd to 5th set. Then you will slowly see results. Take your time with it and it will work. Don’t expect to come into the gym and lift 50 pounds more than the last time. A 2 pound gain is great! I started off benching 95 pounds. But, I kept with it. After a year I was benching 205. You got to be a intelligent lifter and not give into your ego. If I pick up a weight and it feels too heavy, I put it down and find a better feeling weight. I have hurt my back in the past performing cheat curls. Cheat curls do not work! They never did work, and they will never work. The only thing they do, is build up your ego and not your muscles. I can cheat curl 185 for 10 reps, big deal. Will I get a cookie for doing that? No. Will I possibly hurt myself doing so? Yes. Will I gain anything from it? No. While I would be moving this heavy weight, I would also be using the forces of gravity and other muscle groups to move the weight upward. The stress on the biceps would not be as intense, than if I had used a lighter weight under full control. Lesson learned, a lighter weight under full control will be more beneficial than a heavy weight under no control. I hope that this article will help beginners understand the importance of using the proper amount of weight. I try to tell people in the gym, to lift slower. No one ever listens to me. As they are struggling to gain a inch on their arms in 2 years, I am worrying about my arms getting too big. Just don’t take my word for it, go to any HIT site and read what they say about speed. They recommend that you go slow with your lifts. I hope that this article helps.

Another thing that I see too much, is people not doing negatives. They are too afraid, that if they do a slow negative while lifting, that they will burn out. This is complete crap. The goal to lifting weight, is to stimulate muscle growth. You got to do your negatives, period. I recomend 2 seconds on the psoitive and 2 seconds on the negative.