A 6-Week HFT Program for Fixing Muscle Imbalances, Getting Stronger, and Feeling Your Best Sometimes, the more a lifter trains, the worse he looks. I say “he” for a reason. You just don’t see this problem so much in women, but we’ll get around to that in just a little bit. The problem, to put it quite simply, is imbalance. If you spend the majority of your training time blasting your pecs and “bombing and blitzing” your biceps, you may, indeed, develop large, muscular, and even downright strong, pecs and biceps muscles, but at an expense. Because if a lifter keeps this up, he will end up looking more like an ape than the well-developed towering mass of muscle that he wants. Doubly so if he’s eating everything in sight. His gut grows along with his chest and biceps, turning him into a mountain gorilla minus the strong back, traps, shoulders, and legs that I’m pretty sure all mountain gorillas probably have. But...
Essays on Old-School Strength Training, Classic Bodybuilding, Traditional Martial Arts, and Budo Philosophy