If you are new to training and you are asking questions like…
How many drop sets should i do?
How often should i eat?
Whats the best brand of BCAA’s?
How do i target the long head of the tricep?
Then it might be time to take a step back and focus on whats important.
If you want to build muscle your focus should be on:
- Training with correct form and full range of motion
- Use compound movements
- Progressively overloading your weight training
- Eating adequate food
- Eating adequate protein
- Be consistent
7. Adequate sleep
If you want to lose fat (and maintain muscle) your focus should be on:
- Being in a calorie deficit
- Training with correct form and a full range of motion
- Use compound movements
- Progressively overloading your weight training (at least maintaining it)
- Eating adequate protein
- Be consistent
7. Adequate sleep
To get great results in the gym you are best focusing your time and energy on the things that are going to have the biggest effect on your training. For most of us, the gym is place we go to work on our body and health so we can look great, feel better and have an improved quality of life right? because in reality, LIFE happens outside the gym. Worrying about things like which hand variation is “optimal” for tricep activation and what time of the day is best to train for “optimal” results is like stressing about what brand of battery you should use for the remote to the TV you haven’t even bought yet.
Hard work and consistency doesn’t sound as sexy and exciting as a “blood flow restricted dumbbell bicep curl with a 5 second eccentric super setted with a pronated barbell bicep curl triple drop set” but complicated doesn’t = results. Simple stuff done right and consistently will have a far more beneficial impact on your training.
The Video below is the “rock, pebble, sand” analogy that i believe was originally created for time management however holds true for your training and nutrition goals too. FOCUS ON THE BIG THINGS!
Check it out – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZvL4as2y0
