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28. Its more than just knowledge, it’s………….
So far I have covered a lot of the mistakes people make when training, but there has to be more to it than that. So why else do people fail to maximise results?
Because training properly is HARD!!!
For the people that have chosen a sport that requires skill such as powerlifting, Olympic lifting, running etc then straight away you have to master the technical side. Improving technique can add big junks of weight to the bar, minutes off a 10k run and so on. I am not going to go into too much detail here but I hope you can all understand that without technique you cannot achieve your maximum. We will use powerlifting as a quick example, but the same applies for most skills based activities.
So you want to increase your flat bench and simply flat benching max efforts each week will not do it. So we look at assistance exercise and these, for most, will be specific to the an individual. So perhaps from your training journals you know that if your close grip bench goes up then so does your conventional bench. So you now go one step down and work out what makes your close grip bench go up. Maybe having thicker, but not necessarily stronger, arms helps so you add arm hypertrophy work and so on. So for one primary movement such as bench you may have 3 secondary assistance movements and then perhaps 6 further assistance exercises!! But it does not end there!! You then have to gauge intensity, volume, speed and the bit the most people forget is dropping the exercise that don’t help you. If a lift is not helping then do not do it!
This is hard and this is for one lift so you do the same for Squat and the Deadlift and then you may find contradictions (ie an exercise may help your dead, but not help your bench) and then it gets even harder!! And then you have to add conditioning, having the CV capability to both train, and compete. Then you have to factor in recovery, mobility, nutrition and real life! So perhaps 30 exercise just to increase the performance of 3 and all of your free time gone!
Bodybuilding is a different world to the skill-based sports. The main reason in bodybuilding, after knowledge, that people don’t train properly is simple, because training bodybuilder style, properly, really, really hurts!!! I’m not talking about DOMs the next day (anyone can get that), I’m talking about during training. For example, try this:
The guy in the video is massive and I have little doubt he can bench 500lb yet he is exhausted lifting perhaps 20lbs. Why is he so exhausted? Because he is doing it properly!! He is maintaining tension in his upper back, pushing his chest up, controlling each rep, pausing and so on. This takes it out of you and you have to do this day after day, week in, week out with near perfect nutrition (no point covering the hard earned muscles with fat). You then have to add variety, but not so much you negatively affect the muscle already grown. You then have to work out what shape you want, reduce volume on some muscles, increase it on others. You will have to work hard to achieve a good mind-muscle connection so you can isolate effectively and lots of other stuff.
In summary, training properly is hard. Are you really up for it? |
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Author: Wardy257
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26-11-2019 04:55:41