I’ll start this one with some quotes from the late Bruce Lee and his friend Stirling Silliphant, from the book "The art of expressing the human body" by John Little. Silliphant and Bruce used to run together. They’d run three miles in about 20 minutes. So one day Bruce goes “We’re going to go five.” Stirling said he can’t go five, cos he’s a helluva older then him. Bruce: “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” So they ran and did the three and went into fourth and Stirling is ok for about five minutes and then he says to Bruce that he can’t go any more cos he’s going to have a heart attack and die! Bruce said: “Then die.” :) Later Stirling asked him “why did you said that.” And Bruce responded “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are no plateaus, but you must not stay here, you must go beyond them. If it kills you it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.” So my question to you is: “Do you have this burning desire?” If you don’t, if you go to the gym to mostly socialize and watch the freakin TV which shouldn’t be there in the first place then “What da hell are you doing in the gym?!” You are either cold or you are hot. If you are cold, stay home, if you are hot then don’t move your focus of your goal. The worst thing you can be is lukewarm. Cos what happens then, you go to the gym, you hit a plateau, it’s hard, and you are officially wasting your time and money. Lee had an attitude “there are no limits”. He even placed it in his logo that read “Using no way as way/Having no limitation as limitation.” This is the philosophy you need to have when hitting a gym. This was Lee’s attitude towards progressive resistance in his training. And this is exactly how you break throw a plateau, by progressive overload. Maybe you don't even know you hit a plateau, heck I didn't realized it until I read Vince's book and this is something you learn in the NNMB program by Vince DelMonte. You progressively increase your weight, now you’re probably wondering “Yeah duh but how do I do that” the aswer is in the rest period. Yup you could say the secret is in you rest period. Which includes, the way you shower, what, when and how much you eat plus when and how much you sleep. Muscle building is 1% lifting weight and the rest is the rest. Do the math yourself. How much time do you spend in the gym, which btw shouldn’t be over an hour, because of your hormone levels and how much is the rest of the day. Of course the time will come when you really can’t add any more weight to a particular exercise but guess what, there are a bunch of others out there. Heck I even made up a few. The NNBM thought me in great detail how to progressively overload my weight lifting program and it works. It is described in great detail if you are coming close to plateaus with your exercises and what you should do about it You should always keep track of your progress though cos how will you know if you made any progress from your last workout. When I said to my friend what he should do if he ever want's to get bigger his response was "whoa but that's all professional"...What?! Oh I see you want your shoulders to be freakin' 4 or 5 inches wider but you want to be all casual and recreational about it? Yeah well, good luck with that. If you want real hardcore results then you gotta train and live real hardcore. But the real deal comes from being consistant to reach your goals. And when you reach them, set new ones. If there's a whicked cycle, then this is the good cycle. Keep rocking, Lucky out.
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