| It would be safe to say that most competitors who | | | | that was after I won my first contest. From then on I |
| gain a lot of weight and let themselves go during their | | | | maintained fifteen pounds over my weigh-in weight |
| off season have a shorter bodybuilding career than | | | | during the off-seasons. |
| others. Why is this? Who won the race the Tortoise | | | | Another mindset is, allow the off-season to be a time |
| or the Hare? Why? | | | | of trying new training techniques and foods. The Art of |
| All or nothing, fat in the off-season- lean in the | | | | Bodybuilding lies in the process of learning not the |
| on-season behaviors never finishes the race. | | | | trophies. Do not be afraid to change things up every |
| Becoming a champion is like training for a marathon for | | | | so often. Off-season training times are good days to |
| twelve months. There is no taking off a month of | | | | learn. |
| running expecting to be right were you left off, neither | | | | This accomplished numerous things like: |
| is there a off-season to gain too much weight or for | | | | 1. Cuts down on the muscle tissue that you potentially |
| some not even train. I never understood that. Sure | | | | lose during the dieting phase. |
| some weight gain is necessary an unavoidable, but to | | | | 2. You don't tend to go into depression because you |
| let yourself go in quest of size and strength, give me a | | | | feel you are losing size before a show. |
| break. | | | | 3. You have a better understanding of the sport and |
| One big goal of your off-season training program is to | | | | the meaning for doing it. |
| bring weaker developed body-parts up proportionally. | | | | 4. You continue to see the true muscularity and |
| This can be accomplished without gaining a lot of | | | | development of the weaker muscles that you need to |
| weight in the off season. The most weight over my | | | | work on. |
| contest weight that I reached was twenty pounds and | | | | |