Do you want to finally look the part when you are on stage or in front of the camera? How about just becoming one of the “Big Men On Campus” or being able to stand up for yourself if the time comes? The fitness industry, like any business, has always been laced with disagreement and full of its rants and arguments. But what bugs me is outright fraud, or when people mislead other people by taking advantage of their just trying to find some answers.
Unfortunately, making it worse, there are those who mean well but make unrealistic statements about training based upon a fad they pray to God is the perfect plan to follow. If you sincerely want to do things honestly, drug free and succeed like the people you see in the magazines and on TV, ladies and men alike... I know your pain. I started training at age 16 when I weighed barely 100 pounds at 5'8" tall. Without getting taller, I gained 40 pounds my first year.
My second year of training was my senior year in high school when I gained another 30 pounds and 1 inch in height. That put me at 5'9" and 170. I also gained another 10 pounds in the Army and after that, from some local bodybuilders, I learned some techniques to go from 180 to 200 pretty easily. But at that point, 7 years had passed since I first lifted weights and I was a little burnt out. I was in Southern California training people and working in a physical therapy office all day long.
Coupling all of that with pending studies, I needed at least a mental break, so I took one. Surrounded by people who didn't care about their training or eating habits despite where I worked was also hard on me. While nothing and no one belongs in your life if they or it are not supportive of your training and eating, sometimes they feel this way because they have failed somewhere along the way themselves. 6 months off, turned into 12 months, then 18 months and at 24 years old, 2 years off from training, I was 180 pounds again.
180 pounds is wonderful for some but personally, I was out of shape and feeling pathetic. I really was worthless and WEAK. I probably felt worse than I looked, but I was not enjoying what I saw in the mirror. I looked positively wimpy and felt like I had wasted my life. I had... My natural body weight due to all the training and dieting would probably be right around 180 even if I didn't lift ever again. However, I felt thin at 180. Maybe you weigh 140 and want to weigh 170. That's easy to accomplish.
My decision was, "It's Now Or Never," because I wanted to gain 30 pounds more body weight. That somehow turned into gaining 90 (explained in the book). Is it possible for anyone to gain that much? Not everyone wants to. But if I now know how to gain 90, then teaching you to gain 30 isn't too much of a task. I have helped clients gain 40 and 50 pounds. Because I got fat after my injuries, I also know what it takes to lose it all again. I have also helped people get ready for shows and maintain all of their muscle mass.
In fact, many of my competitive clients built muscle while dieting down and using what I discovered next by adding things discovered while reading my old Army diaries. Cycling the intensity… And for newer workouts we picked up the martial arts I quit years earlier... I am not going to lie and say it was all sunshine and daisies honing these programs, it wasn't. There were times I felt like I was fattening up and had to back off. There were times I got so strong I almost hurt myself again.
Outside of the obviously macho reasons men like to get into more intense workout scheduling, I have also worked with a lot of cranky women who let me know what they thought of their results too. This helped lead us to the discovery of what made all of this work for ladies as well as men... And it all paid off in the form of the routines, menus, programs and everything else covered in Don Lemmon's KNOW HOW - Book Two: The Ultimate Development.
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