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Originally Posted by Tenchu
You are on the right track, Ivon. There are many ways of doing it. And tricking the muscles into thinking they need more power is the key in every successful way. The way I look at it is with each lift your muscles have to believe they are not strong enough. From saying this, it is obvious my bench press is loaded with weights and I can only lift it 3 or 4 times in a set, and by the end of the workout just once. But I dont agree running is bad. If it weakens and wears the muscles before your workout then your muscles will have to try even harder to do the same workout, meaning they want to build up better! You understand? If you do copious amounts of reps, say 30, of a light weight then it dont do much. The real problem with it is your muscles cheat, and try to use as little effort as possible to do the job, and so your endurance might increase, and you get fitter, but not stronger, not much. But if you lift the max it has to use everything you got, so your muscles learn there is no easy way out, and they grow.
Diet, everyones diet is different. A weightlifters diet should include pizza, I know that... Mine does!
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Lol dude, I used to train with professional powerlifters so they gave me quite a few great tips on things.
I personally am not bothered about building muscle. I've got enough defined already. I used to be able to do 110KG Bench Press but then my shoulder knuckle f**ked up and it became painful for me even to move it for a while. That's around the time I started my Shaolin/Mantis training.
Anyway, this stuff is more for people like Alastor who have a problem looking too skinny. If you want to build, do the type of training i've outlined earlier. Diet is also important for people like you since you burn stuff up so fast.