If you’re a natural lifter who wants to gain plenty of muscle mass but also the strength to go with it, I think there are three things that are paramount. First, you need to train heavy. Second, you need to train often. And third, you need to remain fresh while doing the first two. If you’re a student of the lifting game, and if something about my above statement seems vaguely familiar, there’s an explanation for that. I basically paraphrased the great Russian strength coach Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, who, rather famously, said that the key to strength training was “to train as heavy as possible as often as possible while being as fresh as possible.” That quote is well-known for a reason. Following it judiciously will unlock a lot of strength and hypertrophy gains. Of course, there are a couple caveats to that statement. You need to be training with barbel...
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