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YOUR KEY STRATEGY TO IMPROVEMENT
BodyMuscle Journal Volume 4
Guess what?
Your goal is to make the best improvement you have ever made in the upcoming 12 months!
To do this, good planning is essential. To get the best results ever, in 2003 (now that those Holiday days of decadence, spending and end of year and last quarterly taxes have once again passed) you must regain your mood and have the self-discipline to follow a strict plan of training and nutrition for the next 12 months.
Prepare to train harder and smarter. Adhere to your eating and supplement program like there is no tomorrow. Regularity is a must. Your training must become a habit. Your nutrition must become clockwork. Don't miss or skip anything no matter what. Body improvement is a cumulative process. Over the next 12 months you are going to develop every aspect of each muscle group: definition, shape and lean muscle.
MUSCULARITY IS VALHALLA!
Your first training and nutrition program of the year should be designed to increase muscle size and strength while you are also "leaning out". Don't just focus on size and mass. Although your number of muscle cells increase little (if at all) after infancy, you CAN add new fat cells throughout your entire life. DON'T do that! Instead, let's spend the next 3 months getting 6 - 10-pounds of net positive body composition change. That is -- 4 pounds of lean mass with 4 pounds fat loss. That is a net positive body composition change of 8 pounds.
DENSITY FOR IMMENSITY
STAGE 1 is VOLUME TRAINING.
Volume training does work despite the skinny writers (or obese, as the case may be) who insist no growth occurs beyond 2 sets. But, volume training is what really differentiates a bodybuilder from a weightlifter, not intensity. Volume work, increasing both the size of the muscle cell itself and also the blood vessels and fluids in and surrounding the muscle, works.