| If you want to build a great physique, consulting with an | | | | reality most people take 3-5 years to get their nervous |
| expert coach will save you a great expense of time | | | | system to the high levels of training capacity in a given |
| and money as well as providing you peace of mind. A | | | | discipline. |
| great coach will provide you with a scientifically proven | | | | Cycling back and forth between Foundation training for |
| training program, for without a good program you have | | | | the structure and Innervation training for the aesthetics |
| almost no chance of building a great physique. Every | | | | compromises the bulk of these stages until the |
| great athlete requires a coach to reach there ultimate | | | | individual gets down to single digit body fat levels with |
| potential as fast as possible. | | | | a significant level of muscle mass. At this point a more |
| The lack of planning and coaching has put bodybuilders | | | | complex routine is required as the body's ability to |
| at the mercy of slick marketing, pie in the sky | | | | adapt to training has significantly improved. Stricter |
| supplements, and magazine mysticism that leaves | | | | attention to nutrition as well as advanced |
| bodybuilders desperate and frustrated. For some | | | | supplementation and serious psychological training is |
| reason bodybuilders are so hooked on the "genetics is | | | | then required to overcome perceived limits in |
| everything" that they consistently fall prey to giving less | | | | performance. This is where most trainees falter and |
| then their best effort leading to disillusionment and | | | | there physical development halts. Intense effort is |
| discouragement. Often times the individual takes | | | | required to break past this barrier, and this takes |
| steroids and other bodybuilding drugs to compensate | | | | incredible self-discipline, and desire. |
| for a poor routine found in a magazine or randomly | | | | In this third and ongoing stage both foundation and |
| selected exercises performed with terrible form. | | | | innervation training are performed throughout workout |
| These individuals also tend to build belief systems that | | | | regimens and training reflects constant change to |
| support the use of drugs to build the physique. This | | | | maximize growth and overcome underdeveloped |
| mentality is pervasive even at the pro-level and is a | | | | areas. Each month specialization on weak aspects is a |
| cancer to the science of building muscle. Basically once | | | | must while maintaining or improving strong points. |
| you take the drugs away most people have a terrible | | | | This long term healthy scientific approach to |
| physique and an even worse state of physical and | | | | bodybuilding is far superior to training using drugs |
| mental health. | | | | because without drugs the individual needs to first |
| For the natural bodybuilder, endless growth is not only | | | | follow sound training science and sound nutritional |
| possible it is a certainty once the individual diligently | | | | advice. By building a solid base to your training and |
| follows a step-by-step sound training program. The | | | | nutrition long term improvement is guaranteed and |
| best programs will be geared so the athlete trains the | | | | bodybuilding becomes a long term and continually |
| nervous system to handle increasingly challenging | | | | improving pursuit. |
| demands so that new neural pathways can be | | | | Conversely, bodybuilders who use drugs to build their |
| developed to build muscle. The body becomes it's | | | | bodies quickly lose there gains once the drugs stop |
| function is a great truism, so you need to first develop | | | | because of poor training and poor nutrition. Also the |
| strong neural drives to each muscle group to maximize | | | | psychological dependence on drugs cause many top |
| it's development. | | | | level Bodybuilders to become so depressed after they |
| The training routine also needs to take in account the | | | | stop a cycle that their training and physique quickly |
| development of muscle in strategic places which is | | | | degenerate thereafter. This loss of identity and false |
| first accomplished in the foundation phase. In the | | | | euphoria that drugs create can often lead to other |
| second phase of training particular attention is directed | | | | more serious psychological/sociological problems. |
| to smaller muscle groups to improve the shape, | | | | Natural bodybuilding is a far superior way to build |
| function and aesthetics of the physique. Usually | | | | every aspect of your physique as well as your mind |
| accompanying this stage is a dietary regimen that | | | | and emotional state. Natural bodybuilding is a |
| strips away body fat to reveal the underlying | | | | compliment to a productive and happy level not a |
| musculature. This is a critical aspect to fully realize | | | | detriment. |
| where one's physical development is and where | | | | Many natural trainees continue to improve late into |
| improvements need to be made. | | | | there life. Some people are making gains in their 50's, |
| The length of time of each phase depends on the | | | | 60's and even 70's with consistent and applied |
| maturity of the nervous system, goals of the individual, | | | | scientific effort in Natural Bodybuilding. More importantly |
| and body fat percentages. For most trainees these | | | | the long term benefits of Natural Bodybuilding far out |
| two stages should compromise approximately 1-3 | | | | weigh any short term illusionary gains that drug use |
| years depending on how fast the individual responds | | | | provides... |
| to training and the continuity of the effort exerted. In | | | | |