Drop your best advice here, elevator-pitch style.
Spend 150 minutes per week picking something up and putting it over your head or changing levels
Eat meat and eggs when hungry, stop when you are not hungry
Do not repeat workouts or meals twice in a row
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Watch every John Meadows Mountaindog diet training and nutrition video on YouTube. Learn proper exercise technique. Do not follow the training routines of champion pro bodybuilders. Don’t take performance enhancing drugs. When it comes to training, less is more.
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now wait a minute
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If its healthy, eat it.
If it isn’t, don’t.
If it’s heavy, pick it up.
If it isn’t, pick it up until it feels heavy.
Don’t take advice from people you wouldn’t want to look like.
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Do what @T3hPwnisher said above and add to that do at least one conditioning session a week that makes you hate yourself
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That conditioning session can easily be part of the 150 minutes actually
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John Meadows trained enhanced and natural competing and non-competitive bodybuilders. He was a natty until he moved up a weight division in his mid-twenties. His information on exercise and nutrition is invaluable. You should checkout his material. He was not the most genetically gifted pro bodybuilder and had to rely on his intellect and incredible training insight to achieve success. He readily admitted he took AAS and TRT when he retired from competition. Let me rephrase, don’t follow the routines of superhuman genetic freaks who could do any type of training and grow without much effort.
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Thought that as I wrote it, it could also be conditioning and putting things over head like Grace.
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Exactly. Some sessions can be hard and heavy, some long and light, some HIC style, some endurance, etc
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Train for a minimum of 3 hours a week.
Follow a Full body routine.
Get progressively stronger.
Get at least 10,000 steps a day
Focus on whole foods.
Eat enough protein.
Eat foods you digest well.
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The people you’re referring to don’t exist.
The most genetically gifted person to every grace bodybuilding with their genetics is Ronnie Coleman.
Maybe you haven’t watched his training videos, but i have. He trained so hard for so long he needed dual hip replacements.
You’re allowed to have your opinion, even if it’s a fuckin stupid one.
When you stop speaking in platitudes, you’ll start to be more than an echo.
Anyone saying “I’m not genetically gifted” that also has 22" biceps, is absolutely genetically gifted.
He also is very intelligent and unique in his training approach.
Eat breakfast. Drink water. Cut out obvious shit. Machines are accessories to a barbell. Stretch and do cardio. Learn anatomy. Sleep more and eat more. Prioritize legs over abs. Magic pills don’t exist. You’re stronger than you think.
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Ronnie Coleman. We are the same age and we were both LEOs. The similarities end there. I’ve watched a lot of his training videos. Not to learn, but out of morbid curiosity. He is the antithesis of how a newbie, or any sane person, should train. Now he’s a cripple. Bravo ! Compare him to Jay Cutler, who I know and trained with a few times early in his career at Gold’s Gym, Worcester, MA. Jay is also a genetic freak and a superb multiple x Mr. Olympia. Jay trained a lot smarter than Coleman, looks great today, and is enjoying life. I still wouldn’t follow how Jay trains because of his superhuman genetics don’t apply to me. A newbie would get more out of using “Beyond Brawn” as a starting point and progressing from there.
Then why not start there with advice, instead of saying “don’t follow xyz”…?
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You’re missing the point. Which is; emulate those that you have more commonalities with and you’ll get better results. I didn’t say JM wasn’t gifted genetically. He’s just wasn’t in the same tier as Coleman, Cutler, and Yates. I’m not an echo chamber. I’m just being objective.
Why does every thread have to turn into a d*ck measuring contest? Everyone has their opinion(s) on this. Whether you agree or not, that’s your prerogative. No need to go back and forth. Give your advice to a newbie (as the title suggests) and move on.
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I really liked Brawn. It was pretty awesome when Stuart McRobert wrote some articles for this site.
I need to reread that book.
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Don’t sell yourself short but be realistic.
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Sound advice. “Beyond Brawn” is a great read and I still refer to it to this day.