The easiest thing about bodybuilding should be gaining muscular bulk. The truth is—if you train correctly and eat correctly—it shouldn’t be much of a problem. But I’m guessing that a whole lot of you reading this article are in no way training and eating correctly. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be flooded with emails on a weekly basis from lifters who struggle with this issue. When I read over the training and nutritional regimens (or lack thereof) of these bodybuilders, it doesn’t take long to see the problem. And if you walk into any gym in America, you’ll see the same kind of training on a daily basis—guys struggling to gain bodyweight pounding away on countless sets of high-rep chest and arm exercises (and usually on machines). Many of them even train with “intensity” but it doesn’t matter. They are all wasting their time because they are not doing the following (and let me sum this up as simply as possible...
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