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Basic Bodybuilding
How
One Person, Namely Me, Could Be a Beginner for 16 Years
by Marc David
At 16, like most teens, I had a dream. And that dream
was not to by small and skinny anymore. I had seen plenty
of bodybuilding magazines and people in really awesome
shape and I decided that I wanted that. Not to be the
next Arnold but to have some size and be generally fit
and strong. But at 16, the first thing that I did was
grab an old Sear weight set and just started doing stuff.
Just think about it.
What person just starts down the right path to anything?
Hardly any of us. The first time we are introduced to
structured learning is in kindergarten. That type of
learning follows us into grade school, middle school,
high school and maybe college. So why is it that so
many beginners just "do stuff?" It's not like
we are born with the instincts to even tie shoes without
somebody showing us the way.
At 16, I didn't know what to do. I started reading
this book by Bob Paris, and some Muscle and Fitness
issues. But I knew even then it wasn't natural and that
I would never take any drugs to propel myself to what
I wanted. Those books had some good stuff in them but
it wasn't exactly written for me as a beginner. I almost
felt like in order to be in shape and to be big, you
just had to be that way naturally. I'll be you can guess
what happened next…
I did some more stuff. No structure. In fact, up until
I was 27 years old, I basically did what all beginners
do. Just stuff. Maybe a heavy bench session here and
there, just shooting for whatever reps I could get.
No idea what I had to previously. No structured training
program and no idea of nutrition other then it's common
sense not to eat candy all day and I needed to eat or
eat less if I wanted to make changes. Needless to say…
Nothing changed. That's right. Imagine, yourself doing
something since you were 16 years old and at age 27
you were "fit" but not really at your goal,
not really that big and not anywhere close to what you
wanted to accomplish. And yet guys, who worked out maybe
2 years, were exactly where you wanted to be. Moreover…
you saw plenty of people cheating their way to the top.
I couldn't even figure out a good diet let along contemplate
anything more complex.
Make no mistake… I was frustrated. And the reason
I was frustrated for all those years was that I never
started out in kindergarten and worked my way up. My
point is…
If people take classes to learn another language, and
go to school to learn a trade, and pay an instructor
to help them drive, what makes working out and obtaining
a goal any different? Let me break some news to you.
Eating healthy is NOT common sense. Working out is
NOT common sense.
That's right. I said it. The reason I was frustrated
was mainly that I thought you just hit the weights and
got bigger. Trust me, I had some really intense weight
sessions. And yet I might have worked at 110% and blew
it the minute I left the gym.
Okay, so there's the beginner who has never worked
out but learns about it, gets the nutrition down, understands
that, finds a training program and starts out. In 2
years, this person is advanced.
On the other hand, there's me, who after 16 years was
physically not a beginner but mentally still was a beginner.
Can you see my frustration?
But my problem is your opportunity.
You see, if you knew what I know now, and trust me
when I say there's no big secrets, you'd be a beginner
for a lot less time. You'd have to work hard but not
quite as hard and you'd know why you made some changes
and why you didn't.
Here's more,…
My mom used to cook dinners every night. I wanted to
get bigger. I just ate enough so I wasn't hungry and
that was it. Now that's fine if I wanted to maintain,
but here I had an idea and image in my head and couldn't
get to it. I had no idea what nutrition really was all
about. I didn't know how much I should even eat to get
bigger?
That's like getting a destination, no GPS, no map and
no directions. How long would it take you to find that
town if you just got in the car and started driving?
After 16 years you might get lucky and find it or you
might just be chasing the Road to El Dorado.
It's simple really. Everybody wants to sell you a secret.
But here's the real secret and here's how I stumbled
on it.
I found a workout program called Max-OT. Finally, a
very structured workout program. What to do, when to
do it and how. And it told me to lift heavy. It also
gave me a tiny insight into eating right. But not enough.
Somehow I got lucky and found a Burn the Fat, Feed the
Muscle book. I printed it out. And that was it.
That was my ah-ha moment.
The secret was KNOWLEDGE.
Let me repeat that.
KNOWLEDGE
Nothing I've run across today is a big secret. It's
not like nobody is telling anybody about this. What
the problem seems to be is that beginners don't know
where to start and they don't think they need any help.
So at some point they get very frustrated and end up
quitting or losing sight. Not to mention the sheer wealth
of information on the Internet in an unstructured manner
is mind boggling. So what if all this information is
on a bodybuilding forum. In 34,567 posts, with 9,567
members. Let me take the hex number and make it readable
to the human eye.
If I took 12 million pages of information, some horrible,
some bad, some good and some true gold and threw it
all over the house, took a blower to it and scattered
every paper all over, that is what you have right now.
It would take you 2 years or more to go thru each page
to find out what information was good, how many others
confirmed that to be true and then you'd have to make
your own table of contents and put it all together.
Just because it's out there doesn't mean much if it's
not good, it's not structured and it's not written for
you.
Here's what I've learned in just 2 years:
"What I need to eat in order to reach my goals
and how to figure that out easily and quickly with just
basic high school math.
"How I need to train and how less is actually
more.
"Why being controlled and having excellent form
gives me 50% more gains then the guy/gal next to me
who drops the weight on the bottom half of the movement.
"How I can measure my progress easily and quickly
and best of all… privately. So that I know where
I've been and how close I am to getting there.
"That not all carbs are the same
"There's such a thing as good fats and by taking
a fat pill I can lose weight
The truth is…
I tried tons of workout programs. But my main failure
wasn't necessarily the routines I was doing but the
lack of knowledge I had. Can you imagine what it would
be like to take 16 years to learn how to tie your shoe?
Well that's what I felt. I wanted something so bad that
I tried it all.
Heck, I even skipped dinners (skipping meals is a no-no)
on weekends because I was too busy and tried protein
shakes that didn't mix well with water to put on weight.
So it all adds up to this…
I was a beginner for roughly 16 years. And while not
physically a beginner I didn't know what the heck I
was doing. Reading magazines by companies with an agenda
is a horrible way to figure it out. And reading books
by professionals who took paths and risk I would never
take is also a waste of time.
Which is why I'm writing.
I've finally figured it out. And I know I'm not alone
because I run a bodybuilding forum, and a fitness site
and I get 5-10 e-mails or posts a day with people just
like me. Who want something and have no idea how to
get there. I know they will try everything and many
of them will quit. And a few will go on to struggle
for years until they finally realize the secret to getting
this dream is understanding the nutrition, the training
and the supplements.
Trust me, nobody wants to be a beginner for 16 years.
About the Author
Marc David is an innovative fitness enthusiast and
the creator of the "The Beginner's Guide to Fitness
And Bodybuilding" method on http://www.Beginning-Bodybuilding.com.
He can show you how to reduce your body fat thru diet,
how to gain weight or create more muscle thru an abundance
of workout tips by training LESS! Not more. He dispels
many "bodybuilding myths", and tells you what
most people never realize about nutrition.
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