SIMPLE GROWTH GUARANTEED

SIMPLE GROWTH GUARANTEED – One of the most unproductive things you can do is study the training of a super-jacked dude and somehow arrive at the conclusion that his current training style is responsible for how jacked he is.
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Anyone who develops a physique or level of strength worth admiration usually went through an evolution that molded their training into what it is today. I was lucky in my early years because I picked up some really basic principles about how I was going to grow.
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Pick this weight up and do reps with it. Next week, do more reps with it than you previously did. And do this with a handful of basic movements. Do this for years on end and you’ll get bigger.
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And that’s what I did. I picked a weight that I could do for 8 reps. Then each week I’d try to do more than 8 reps with it. When I could do 12 reps with it, I’d increase the weight.
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That’s all I did for 90% of the time during my first decade or more of training. I might have switched out a few things here or there, but for the most part that was all I did. My go-to movements during those years were:
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• Squat
• Deficit Stiff-Legged Deadlift
• Supinated-Grip Pulldown
• T-Bar and Barbell Row
• Incline Dumbbell Press
• Bench Press
• Overhead Press
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I threw in the usual mix of curls, triceps work, dips, chins, etc., but I really stayed with progressive overload on those movements. I knew that if I could go from the 80-pound dumbbells for 8 reps on the incline bench to the 100-pound dumbbells for 12 reps, I’d get bigger. That was it. A decade or longer. These days, you’d be hard pressed to get a dude to adhere to a set program for 2 weeks.
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If you want to grow, then you need to grok some tried and true principles about muscle growth and select a few exercises you intend on pounding into the dirt for about the next decade.