The Biggest Bodybuilding Mistake You Will Ever Make!
February 19, 2010 by Shaun
Filed under The Fitness Bug
Staying in tune with the shock body preparation series, I would like to reveal the biggest mistake you are probably making in your weightlifting workouts. And just like a ‘good’ idea, it is very simple and can be so easily be avoided. But before I carry on, let us just reflect on what we know to prepare for thus far.
- Look after your hands (Prevent calluses)
- Place visuals of your bodybuilding mantras in the areas that you spend most of your time.
- Find a training partner
- Perform the advanced warm-up
- Increase your endurance
- Drink water
- Learn to pace yourself
These are all of the things that have been covered so far in shock body preparation. Now back to the issue at hand.
Shock body exercises are performed to solve the problem for questions such as,
- How many days should I train per week?
- How many sets should I perform for each muscle group?
- What type of rep range should I be using?
- How long should my workouts last?
In order to stimulating muscle growth. Shock body exercises will be a great solution to these questions because these questions would have been asked ‘after’ you have built a certain level of muscle mass. And it is at this stage that you may become lost on how to take things to the next level.
Now, these are very important questions, which I hope shockbody exercises will help answer. But they will not get answered if you continue to make the biggest bodybuilding mistake EVER! Like many things in life, us humans will continue to over-complicate things and think that all great things achieved have been met by solving some super duper complex formula. Sometimes that is the case, but not often.
But if your muscles are not growing after trying everything from eating 5-7 times a day to increasing the weight that you lift, then I can bet that you have fallen victim to the biggest bodybuilding mistake ever….
NOT WRITING THINGS DOWN (PEN AND PAPER)
You could be doing almost everything correct such as,
- Increasing your strength to lift heavier weight
- Taking Glutamine 30m minutes after your workout
You may even be performing the hardgainer workout routine that I posted some weeks back, which focuses on progression. But unless you use physical pen and paper and track your progress weekly without fail, then you could be setting your self up for failure in your muscle gaining efforts.
Your muscles have a memory, and every time that you rip the fibers in your body, your muscles will react by increasing in strength and size. But this will only keep happening if YOU keeping on adding more stress by increasing resistance. But how do you know how you are REALLY progressing if aren’t writing things down? I would rarely see anyone in the gym doing this and I know that you probably won’t do that when you go home either, and you will probably forget what you did by this time anyhow. That is how I know you have either made this mistake or are still making it.
All you have to do now is eliminate all ‘grey area’ and focus on REAL progression. That could be by implementing the hard gainer routine and increasing the weight by 2% every week. And then to write your progression down without fail.
You may be able to test your strength by performing the deadlift exercises that I described here. But true progression can only be gauged by following the above.
Don’t wait up… start progressing properly TODAY!
See you in the comments.
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I think you’ll like this one : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdP2ytSJIYg&feature=player_embedded
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Shaun Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 11:20 am
And that is why you need endurance!
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Nice article Shaun…and I fail at this too…and know that I need to do
Looking at the video, this is my biggest fear and one of the reasons why working out alone is such a challenge…it may be funny to some, but having 150lbs land on your neck is no joke…and I don’t want to find out what that feels like.
Thanks again for the dedication and insight you provide!!! It is appreciated!!
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Shaun Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Hi Eddie
I’m glad you like the post. Progression is without a doubt the most important thing. Even if it’s slow progression. Having a weight stuck on your neck surely is no joke, and that is why I like introducing unique ways to keep building strength. That is the back bone of increasing muscle mass!
I’m also glad you appreciate the dedication. I just hope everyone follows and applies that mentality to their workouts
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Bill Reply:
February 20th, 2010 at 6:40 am
I’ve had something similar happen to me once. I was benching something like 50 pounds way back when and after some reps I lowered the weights and couldn’t get the back up again. Very awkward…I’ve learned to pace myself since then. I gauge the weights on the first reps and see if I need to adjust…Sort of like “measure twice, try once”
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Shaun Reply:
February 20th, 2010 at 7:08 am
I think everyone has had a near death encounter on the bench press. Especially in the early days of working out when everything is all new to you. Because of that I guess I better warn those reading this to try for slow progression first. Unless going they are going for the forced rep approach.