Basic training principles

Basic Training Principles

To look like a bodybuilder you need to train like one. It takes hard dedicated work to build a great physique, but hard work is not enough. Not only does that mean training HARD but it also means training SMART which means mastering the fundamental principles of bodybuilding. These principles should be learned and practiced right from the beginning. It is much easier to learn the proper way to do something than it is to unlearn the wrong way and have to start over.

Your muscles will grow only when subjected to an overload. They will not respond to anything less. Muscles will not grow bigger and stronger unless you force them to. Making your muscles contract against a level of resistance that they are not used to will eventually cause them to adapt and grow stronger. But once they have adapted, this progress will stop. When this happens, the only way to make your muscles grow is by further increasing the amount of overload to which you subject them to.

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