How else was I supposed to get to school? ;)
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Agreed but tough when people have already made up their mind. Most do based on their own experience or their own interpretation of something. In reality we have to leave bias on the side in order to further our understanding of something. Confirmation bias is very very hard to break and see within ourselves. Just because we had an experience with one thing does not make necessary make i true.
Yes very true and more resources are available now than ever before. It is strange to me seeing how much info that is at our fingertips today but so few people are doing it right or have proper comprehension of what they are doing. Clearly 80% of the info on the net is questionable. Making it hard to sift through for the good info. You said it above. Until you educated yourself on how things actually worked then you started to see progress. MOST people today just want the answer and not the understanding. They will not look things up and just follow a program mindlessly.
True.
People get emotional with things like this.
Same goes for exercise selection. Arnold bench pressed. FLEX magazine said you have to bench press. That means there is NO WAY IN HELL anyone can get a decent chest without benching and anyone who claims different is on steroids.
WE DON"T NEED NO STINKING EMOTIONS! LOL!! ( sorry Rex about the obscure movie reference) As my buddy Dwight used to say "I know a thing or two about a thing or two boys"! LOL!! But getting emotional has absolutely nothing to do with building a classic physique. I'm going to stop myself right here before I say something that's going to offend delicate ears and probably get me kicked off this board again. and thats all I have to say about that! ;)
Exactly! bench press got me NOWHERE. I tore my pec benching in 2013 and then when I could not bench anymore and could only do DB presses my chest started growing like crazy. Even Evan pulled my aside one day and was like, "what are doing for you chest." There is no black and white. LARGE grey area.
I think in some circumstances you can. The first 5 years of bodybuilding all I did was Front squat, lunge, and hack squat for legs. Of course I changed the order of movements and reps but not the actual exercises and my legs non stop grew. The reason I stayed with these movements is that I felt such a strong connection each and every time I did them.
I agree. I still pretty much only do legpress, squats, seated curls and deads for my thighs and they keep growing...
"Doing something different" doesn´t necessarily mean executing other exercises every workout.
That extra rep you get or that additional 2.5 pound plate you put on IS something different from what you have been doing previously.
One could be doing nothing but 3-4 exercises for a muscle group their whole life and still get as good a result as someone who has access to a gym (like Bev´s) with 20 machines to hit every possible angle. I´m convinced of this.