If you have ever made a bunch of progress (set a new PR, dropped a bunch of fat, etc) only to lose it again very quickly (within a few months or weeks) despite continuing to train, eat, and live with the same degree of discipline and intent, here is why it happened:
Probably most programmes you will find contain too many moving parts or too much work for anyone who is not a peabrained fitness influencer with the personality of a dumbbell to follow optimally.
Notice the caveat in the form of the word “optimally”.
I’d argue most serious people can give these approaches a good go, reaping rewards commensurate with their efforts – for a time.
Yet it is always the way that something outside of training disrupts their good work or simply that the demands of the programme exceed their non-steroid assisted body’s ability to recover.
When that happens (and, as I said, it always happens) whatever results they have earned slip through their fingers, landing them right back where they started.
And, in some cases, in a worse position than when they started (often due to injuries sustained in the scramble to keep going when their body has had enough).
I have my reasons for why I think it is this way, but I shall leave this topic for another email.
What I will say today is that if you contrast modern (i.e. post 1960s) methods with how training was done in the preceding decades, you will see a stark difference in the intensity and frequency of sessions (for example, it was uncommon for bodybuilders to lift more than three times weekly outside of the immediate runup to a competition).
An approach you would do well to learn from and emulate, if you are interested in getting sustainable results.
For the avoidance of doubt, such an approach will result in much slower progress in strength, endurance, aesthetic appeal, and so on (well over a year and probably several for a real eye-popping transformation).
But the key difference is, you will be able to live your life without much thinking about training or training a fraction as much as people who look a great deal worse than you.
That’s the goal, anyway.
Whether you will achieve it is, of course, down to you.
I’m bringing this up because February’s issue of “The Phil Tyreman Letter” divulges my sustainable way of building up the chest for a powerful and useful upper body (there are options for novices and those who already possess a solid foundation of strength and competence).
Subscribers also get:
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* Various other bonuses from time to time.
The deadline to get Februay’s issue is tomorrow at 23:59, so I heartily recommend you make haste to the below sales page, read it carefully, and proceed if you are satisfied:
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman