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Sometimes, I think that training is not a noble enough activity to devote the best part of one's life to. In my own case, I've tried to muster an equivalent level of interest in other activities, but other than my family, nothing comes close to training (and writing about it) for delivering sustained passion.
Most
of you, if not nearly all of you, also have an inextinguishable and
almost consuming passion for training. For better or worse, this is
where we are. No matter what obstacles hit us, no matter how long
something takes, we keep plugging away.
When
this passion is channeled properly, i.e., through using drug-free sensible
methods, training is not only a wonderful activity in its own right,
with the journey being as important as the end result, but it can be a
life preserver. It should, however, include exercise and dietary
discipline, a healthful lifestyle, dogged determination, and stress control. A lifelong
pursuit in that manner not only adds life to our years, but may also add years to our lives.
Being muscle and might buffs is not enough. Dreaming
of physique transformation is not enough. Craving physical change is
not enough. Acquiring training literature and discussing training at
length are not enough. Only intelligently directed training applied with
dogged determination and a healthful lifestyle can deliver what will
please us most of all -- stronger, healthier and better physiques. But
even died-in-the-wool enthusiasts can lose focus, and just tread water
rather than forge forward.
I
love my work; I love improving my collection of training magazines and
books; I love discussing training. But even more than these, I love
seeing progress in my own training and physique. And I reckon the same
applies to you.
Challenge yourself to make the next eight weeks a period of perfect training and recovery. Don't just think about it, or daydream about it. Actually do it! Really
get stoked up and apply what you've learned. For just eight weeks,
sleep at least eight hours per night, eat an easily digested meal every
three hours of a size appropriate to your caloric needs, train hard and
intelligently no more than twice a week, truly use an abbreviated
program and disciplined perfect form, and add weight in small
increments. Then come the next issue of HARDGAINER, you'll have made
definite improvement, and without injury or overtraining. Then do the same thing for the next eight weeks.
Knowing what to do is one thing, but actually doing it is another matter, and what really counts.
I
keep hammering away at the same basics, as does HARDGAINER as a whole,
because that's all that really matters. If only people would grasp the
basics, apply them, and stop hunting for training "secrets," and fixes
in a bottle, then there would soon be massive progress in gyms
throughout the world. While others continually search for the "secret"
they think exists, or a quick-fix solutions, we know that no such thing
exists as far as sane drug-free training goes.
Leave
others to their expensive and futile pursuits, and apply the basics
with dogged determination. Then the incomparable passion that drives us
on will yield what we want most of all -- stronger, healthier and better
physiques.
Enjoy Your Lifting!
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