Can I ask you a couple of
honest questions?
Who in the last 10 years has influenced
you the most with regards to how to train?
Where have you and where has everyone
else learned how to build muscle?
• Never perform more than 4-12 TOTAL
work sets per workout. Yes, this is far
less than performing the bodybuilders’
suggested 12-24 sets per muscle
group! Unless you are in a contest to
see how many sets are possible per
workout, then your focus should be to
spark the muscle into growth and then
go home.
Would you agree that
bodybuilding magazines
and websites have
contributed to the bulk of
the training information
and misinformation
today? I don’t want to
be completely critical,
but I am sure you would
agree that the majority of
mainstream bodybuilding
literature caters to the
genetically gifted or to the
drug user – which leaves
the rest of us wandering...
Today, with the jungle of
conflicting and misleading
messages, I do not want
you to make the same
titanic mistakes and
training errors that may
be costing you hundreds
of hours in the gym with
nothing to show for your
hard earned training
efforts. While I was
known as “Skinny Vinny,”
I also fell into the trap
of taking advice from
unqualified ‘experts’,
reading rehashed
magazines, trading wads
of cash for different
supplements and still
got comments like, “You
workout with weights?”
Yes, it was frustrating not
knowing how or being
able to build muscle.
Unless you are content
training for
“general fitness”
results and just
want to decrease
your stress levels
then you must
learn to filter out the noise
and nonsense you are
bombarded with each
day and follow a weight
training program and meal
plan designed for you.
and how to spend every
minute in the gym. Isn’t
that refreshing?
• Never follow a program out of a
popular bodybuilding magazine
– unless you are on steroids. Chest
on Monday, Back on Tuesday, Legs on
Wednesday, and so forth. I question
the workout intensity and recovery
ability if anyone can make weekly gains
from this conventional approach -that
clearly reflects a blatant acceptance of
tradition without any thought applied.
The reality is that there
is plenty of free advice
dished out in the gym,
which can really roadblock
your gains if taken literally.
This can begin
a downward
spiral of making
guys believe
they are
‘hard-gainers’
when they
are really not. Training
for up to 2-hours a day.
Taking out a small loan
for the next supplement
breakthrough and even
resorting to drugs. None
of this is recommended or
necessary.
In my muscle building
I share a
blueprint
of the most
fundamental
principles and
techniques that MUST
be executed to gain up to
5-pounds of lean muscle
mass each month!
Everything in life starts
off as a dream. if you
don’t have that vision
you’ll never make things
happen.”Gary Strydom ”
• Never train continuously for longer
than 12 weeks. Hardgainers will
actually benefit from taking a half week
off every sixth week of hard training to
allow their muscular, neural, hormonal
and immune system to FULLY
recharge. Try this one tip and watch
your strength go through the roof!
• Following 3 sets of 10, 3 sets of 12, 3
sets of 8 – any program that begins with
3 sets of whatever was clearly copied
from someone else and, again, clearly
reflects the historical mistake of copying
tradition without any thought applied.
Doing 3 sets of whatever for each
exercise in the workout is a surefire way
of overtraining.
Once you master these
principles you will be
anchored to a proven set
of criteria required to gain
muscle and gain weight
progressively without
getting fat. Stack up any
information, concept,
hype or advice against
these principles – and you
will never be frustrated,
confused or disillusioned
ever again. You will know
exactly what to believe
I wrote this report to
touch on, in my opinion,
the most popular and
damaging screw-ups
used when trying to gain
muscle mass – whether
you want 5-pounds or
50-pounds.
• Never train more than two days in a
row. I question anybody’s recovery
ability to train more than two days in a
row. It typically takes up to 24 hours to
fully replenish your glycogen reserves
so by taking a day off every two days
you are allowing your energy reserves
to be replenished and optimized.
