Okay. There is a general agreement that diet is probably the single most (if not THE most) important factor in attaining our physique goals. Or stated another way: usually failures in our diet are what cause us to not reach our physique goals. With that being said, what is the SECOND most common cause of failure? One of the major contributors to T-Mag suggested to me that it was LACK OF INTENSITY (and I tend to agree). If you don’t push the body, and push it HARD with the iron, the body will not do the muscular adaptation that leads to the aesthetic physique many of us seek. Another factor (that probably would be true both with diet and training) is having an overall PLAN (or lack thereof). Your thoughts…
I agree with the INTENSITY notion. If your eating right and claiming to train right and still nothing is happening. Only one thing it can be. Lack of intensity.
Personally, I think it’s losing sight of the fact that overload must always be progressive. In other words, not consistently increasing workload (via reps, weight used, inter-set intervals, whatever) and/or floundering about because of poor program design.
You must have UNCEASING BELIEF!!!(see Arnold’s earlier work.)
We become what we think about all day!..Think “BIG”
Zev: Agree. I can’t TELL you how I spent more of my early years of training not only with no concept whatsoever about proper nutrition but also a lot of “on again/off again”, haphazard, “no-plan-whatsoever” workouts. Progressive Overload? Hah! What was that? In many ways I think that Intensity goes hand-in-hand with P.O. Again…you really have to push the body beyond what it is used to or it will adapt…and adaptation means NO GROWTH!