A common misconception is that “extreme” training regimes don’t work.
Quite the contrary, they do. As a matter of fact, they can work exceptionally well in certain cases.
To wit, it’s perfectly possible to get significantly leaner, stronger, more muscular, or even some combination of the three in as little as 8-12 weeks.
But…
You’ll be hard pressed to hold onto whatever progress you make for more than a few weeks to a handful of months at most.
Why?
They’re almost always based on the methods athletes and bodybuilders use to “peak” for a competition, hence they are intrinsically unsustainable because the body is physically incapable of sustaining peak condition for an appreciable amount of time. (Indeed, it could be lethal – particularly when anything to do with fat loss is concerned).
More:
You can’t simply train less hard on these programmes and expect results because they’re engineered for extreme effort. Fall short of that, and you’ll still end up plenty tired (due to the higher than average volume, intensity, frequency, and/or density) or off the wagon altogether. Either way, you’ll have nothing to show for your efforts.
What you actually need is something that is built from the ground up to be done week in, week out, month in, month out, year in, year out – planned breaks aside. This will invariably be something based on the “off season” methods those same athletes use to steadily raise their baseline.
A great example of that is a shockingly effective programme of mine that is meticulously analysed in August’s issue of The Phil Tyreman Letter. (It’s rooted in the sort of protocols track and field athletes use for their weightroom work).
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P.S. #1 Here’s a little sample of what’s inside August’s issue:
* How to make a proven, smart, sustainable programme unproductive, and, ultimately, pointless (if you’ve ever struggled to get results on something that has been shown to work time and time again, this is mostly likely why).
* A simple way to structure your training week to maximise physical AND psychological rest (the latter is neglected in most programmes, in my experience).
* A “baseline building” lifting regime to steadily and incrementally bump up your strength in the core movement patterns that is so simple you probably won’t even need to keep a training log unless you want to (it’s straightforward enough to calculate your weights “on the fly” once you get your head around it).
* An easy, safe way to discover your “Training Max” (you must use a Training Max instead of a “true” one rep max unless you fancy hitting an unbreachable plateau within a matter of weeks).
* A movement old-timers from the “pre-steroid” era claimed would “expand the ribcage” – now I don’t know how true that is, but I do know that this little movement has had a profoundly positive impact on the shape, strength, and health of my entire upper body.
* How to work in “Barbell Complexes” to build up your heart, lungs, and general “toughness” without overtraining (these are a powerful tool, but like all powerful things can cause a lot of problems when used incorrectly…)
* My super-heretical (albeit correct, in my biased opinion) take on the barbell deadlift that could save you a world of frustration and, quite possibly, hurt if you do as I suggest.
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Anyway.
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