Fire Your Personal Trainer And Kick Your Own Damn Ass
Available 2024
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Seventy years ago, bodybuilders trained differently from strength athletes because the techniques that worked for one discipline did not work optimally for the other. Steroids – not supplements or advanced training principles - changed all that and produced false expectations in drug-free athletes. Learn the truth between training for maximal strength and training for hypertrophy.
Why do so many athletes continue to perform exercises in ways that are counterproductive? Youtube videos of bodybuilders and strength athletes rack up millions of views. Why do trainees ignore what is right in front of them? We examine exercise performance and the ways in which our training differs from the athletes we spend time watching.
What was “Nautilus” training and why did the Nautilus training principles fail to take permanent root? They were controversial and poorly understood at the time they were published in the 70’s, and the passage of time has led to greater confusion. Yet, at one time it was predicted that they would permanently transform exercise. Why didn’t that occur? Did Arthur Jones himself undermine Nautilus by grossly overpromising? We re-examine abbreviated training; “high intensity training”; training to failure; eccentric training aka negative repetitions; how Nautilus machines transformed the way we think about machines and how we work out today; and the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of exercises performed using machines vs free weights.
What are isometric movements and where does their value lie? They were touted as being responsible for tremendous strength gains until it was revealed that the people experiencing those gains took steroids. Then they were tossed aside as useless. Did that fact make them useless? Did it make sense to throw them away based upon the fact that they work well with people who take steroids? If we threw away every training principle that works upon the grounds that the people experiencing success take steroids, we’d have nothing left. A more critical look is in order.
And much, much more.
Drawn from over 40 years of personal experience and study, FIRE YOUR PERSONAL TRAINER examines the training advice passed down during the last 75 years which has become accepted doctrine even though it doesn’t work.
Stop listening to the endless BS that dominates the "fitness industry" and superficial cookie-cutter books that regurgitate the same lousy advice. For the price of a fast-food family meal, you can finally understand how to succeed at weight training and obtain the results you want, or you can eat that burger and fries.
FIRE YOUR PERSONAL TRAINER covers rarely discussed topics which will help you to understand weight training on a deeper level and how you can approach it in a systematic and productive manner.
Topics include:
What is your “genetic potential”? What are the factors and variables which influence how your body responds to weight training, various training programs and exercises? We take an in depth look at what athletes from previous generations accomplished and on what time frame. Learn why structure – not exercise “form” - is the key to understanding leg training. Squatting does not affect everyone the same way! Stop believing the myth that you can build your legs from squatting if your structure won’t allow it.
What are your goals? Have you prioritized them? Are you working out in a focused manner that will enable to achieve the goals that are most important to you? Or are you following a routine that will never deliver the results you want? Find out how most trainees are self-sabotaging their workouts by adopting techniques that are inconsistent with their objectives.
Why isn’t there a clear consensus on how to work out? Why are the “experts” still rehashing the same tired debates over and over? FIRE YOUR PERSONAL TRAINER resolves the debates and reconciles conflicting theories and training principles that seem to contradict one another in clear language, so you can choose an approach which will work for you. Stop wasting time with routines that will never work.
What is classical bodybuilding? Classical bodybuilding techniques are still relevant today, but repackaging articles that appeared in old bodybuilding magazines and marketing them like they contain “forgotten secrets” is a road to nowhere. Learn which old school techniques remain relevant and how to apply them in building your body using the tools and knowledge available today.
Steroids blurred the line between bodybuilding training and strength training causing confusion about what to expect from each.