We have to keep educating as many people as possible.
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.
When I began my journey almost 50years ago the resources I had available to me were limited. In a matter of fact compared to what you guys now have they were damn near non existant! I was a High school jock of average intelligence with parents who didnt believe college was in the cards for me. So needless to say my future was uncertain. The only thing that seemed inevitable at this point was my trip to Viet Nam. It wasn't until I was introduced to Joe Weider (via Muscle builder/power magazine) that I considered pursuing bodybuilding competitively. After reading that first magazine cover to cover I was sold! I was officially a Weider Wildcat! However I can't begin to tell you the amount of tweaking and fine tuning I had to do before things fell into place since adopting the Weider principles as a way of life. I got a pretty basic idea of what was necessary to get bigger and stronger from all the articles I read. But it wasnt until I started to educate myself about how things actually worked that I started to see some real progress.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Barbell Bench work seems to be most effective for me but that doesn't mean I won't use DB's or hit flyes, etc. Can't make gains sticking to the same thing all the time! Right?
Barbell Bench work seems to be most effective for me but that doesn't mean I won't use DB's or hit flyes, etc. Can't make gains sticking to the same thing all the time! Right?
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! ;)
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! ;)
You act like a sulky little girl every time someone doesn´t agree with what you are saying :D Haha
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.
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.
Barbell Bench work seems to be most effective for me but that doesn't mean I won't use DB's or hit flyes, etc. Can't make gains sticking to the same thing all the time! Right?
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.
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.
While we´re on the subject, my most favorite chest exercises are pushups and dips. Pushups is definitely number one when it comes to contracting, feeling and pumping my chest.
I know you agree, Chris.
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.