Fadi
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First let me qualify who is a beginner and who is a novice bodybuilder. In my opinion, a beginner is one who is just starting out, whilst a novice is someone who has been working out consistently for no less than 12 months. To go further still, an intermediate bodybuilder is one who’s been at it for between 2-4 years. Then we have advance and pro. However in this article I’ll be dealing with the novice bodybuilder.
More often than not, the novice bodybuilder is full of enthusiasm, wanting to emulate the pro bodybuilders he sees in the bodybuilding magazines. Be it a workout routine or some sort of supplement a pro bodybuilder is marketing at the time; the novice wants a piece of that action.
I say don’t pay money, just pay attention! You’ll find a lot more dividends in listening to bodybuilders who have traveled the road before you then you’ll ever find and receive from any nutritional supplement or even anabolic steroids.
Why?!
There’s always that why question. In Olympic weightlifting the why question does not exist. If the coach says it or wrote it; you follow it or just follow the exit sign! Unfortunately that discipline is not to be found amongst young novice and aspiring bodybuilders (generally speaking of course).
Now before anything takes place at the cellular level of your body, where supplement X or steroid Y are going to play their magic, there’s something else that needs to be taken care of first. I’m not speaking about the psychological aspect of training here even though that in itself plays a huge part and has its own massive outcome, be it positive or negative. No, I’m restricting myself to the physiological aspect of training in this small article.
I’m speaking of the neural aspect that needs to take place as opposed to anything else that a new or novice bodybuilder will be facing as he or she progresses through the months of training. An example is in order here. Remember the time you went under the bar and attempted your first ever barbell bench press? How was it? Were you moving all around the place or were you solid and sturdy underneath the iron? Then when you’ve mastered the barbell bench and decided to move onto the d/bell bench, you had to learn to "walk" all over again. I mean what is going on here? That’s the nervous system getting slowly "educated" by your consistent and repetitive workouts to learn and move in the line of power that is safest and most efficient to progress.
Never underestimate the power of your neuromuscular system. Neuron is the nerve and muscular is the muscle. When put together these two begin to learn to "talk" to each other just as the baby learns to walk properly. So it’s not about strength and how much a novice can lift, but rather it’s about communication. Twelve months of what I like to call an intra-neuromuscular communication or INC for short.
But the novice bodybuilder as I’ve said before is really concerned about which creatine is best and which NO-Xplode this or Blow-UP that that is going to give him or her that bodybuilding edge. I say relax and listen to the ones who have paid their dues and I repeat and say, don’t pay money, just pay attention; it’ll be much more profitable in the long run.
Fadi.
More often than not, the novice bodybuilder is full of enthusiasm, wanting to emulate the pro bodybuilders he sees in the bodybuilding magazines. Be it a workout routine or some sort of supplement a pro bodybuilder is marketing at the time; the novice wants a piece of that action.
I say don’t pay money, just pay attention! You’ll find a lot more dividends in listening to bodybuilders who have traveled the road before you then you’ll ever find and receive from any nutritional supplement or even anabolic steroids.
Why?!
There’s always that why question. In Olympic weightlifting the why question does not exist. If the coach says it or wrote it; you follow it or just follow the exit sign! Unfortunately that discipline is not to be found amongst young novice and aspiring bodybuilders (generally speaking of course).
Now before anything takes place at the cellular level of your body, where supplement X or steroid Y are going to play their magic, there’s something else that needs to be taken care of first. I’m not speaking about the psychological aspect of training here even though that in itself plays a huge part and has its own massive outcome, be it positive or negative. No, I’m restricting myself to the physiological aspect of training in this small article.
I’m speaking of the neural aspect that needs to take place as opposed to anything else that a new or novice bodybuilder will be facing as he or she progresses through the months of training. An example is in order here. Remember the time you went under the bar and attempted your first ever barbell bench press? How was it? Were you moving all around the place or were you solid and sturdy underneath the iron? Then when you’ve mastered the barbell bench and decided to move onto the d/bell bench, you had to learn to "walk" all over again. I mean what is going on here? That’s the nervous system getting slowly "educated" by your consistent and repetitive workouts to learn and move in the line of power that is safest and most efficient to progress.
Never underestimate the power of your neuromuscular system. Neuron is the nerve and muscular is the muscle. When put together these two begin to learn to "talk" to each other just as the baby learns to walk properly. So it’s not about strength and how much a novice can lift, but rather it’s about communication. Twelve months of what I like to call an intra-neuromuscular communication or INC for short.
But the novice bodybuilder as I’ve said before is really concerned about which creatine is best and which NO-Xplode this or Blow-UP that that is going to give him or her that bodybuilding edge. I say relax and listen to the ones who have paid their dues and I repeat and say, don’t pay money, just pay attention; it’ll be much more profitable in the long run.
Fadi.
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