Some Thoughts and Ideas on Designing a Workout Plan Made for You I’ve mentioned in other essays that what makes training so unique and ultimately rewarding—though also downright frustrating for many, though I ain’t one of ‘em and proud of it, despite “pride goeth before the fall” and all that—is that training itself is unique to you . What builds muscle—sometimes a whole heapin’, heckuva lot of muscle—for one person in spades doesn’t do jack-squat for another lifter. If that guy you know who grows huge arms with 2 heavy, super-intense sets and a workout that lasts a grand total of 15 minutes done twice per week attempted a high-volume, 15-20 sets per muscle regimen, he’d make near-zero gains. But if my buddy Mac, who thrives off 25 sets per bodypart workouts, tried the Heavy Duty dude’s system, he’d shrivel up worse than Charles Atlas’s scrawny beach geek who got sand kicked in his face and his gal taken away from him by the muscle-bound j...
Some Thoughts on Different Methods of Training, Intuitive Workouts, and How to Break the “Rules” of Lifting I’m not really sure where I’m going with this. About half, maybe slightly more and perhaps a little less, of my articles I plan rather meticulously. I make notes. I craft an outline. I have, in short, a plan. The other half are nothing but the random musings of what is, at the time, circulating throughout the recesses of my mind. As I’ve pointed out in other essays, I often write just to see what happens. For me, it is these latter writings that bring a sense of joy to writing. I’m a writer, sure, but I’m also a creative . I think it’s also one of the reasons that I love training so much, as well. Although there undoubtedly is some science to lifting, it is also an art form. If I’m correct in this assumption of lifting as art, and I have absolutely no doubt that I am, then working out ...