My Unique Muscle-Building Journey

I’ve told bits and pieces of my journey to building the body I have today, and had eluded me for so long, but I never went into any great detail so I figured now would be the time – and with good reason (more on that later).

My journey to building 32 pounds of muscle in 32 weeks was exactly that: a journey. It was a long and frustrating process that started with 7 years of failure, hundreds of wasted dollars spent on magazines, supplements and products that finally came to a resolution with one solution.

The motivation behind me wanting to build this ideal body had to do with one thing: confidence. But on a more surface level it had to do with two things: girls and sports.

Confidence

I was raised by great parents who instilled a healthy self-confidence in me. As a result I was confident in who I was, but I had a body that in no way conveyed this confidence.

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Listen to your body

Adjusting a program to fit YOU

Listening to your body

No program is tailored to an individual and how they are feeling on a daily basis and most programs, unless made by a trainer you’ve had for a long time, knows your schedule and how you react to different training methods, isn’t made for you the individual at all.

Now don’t get me wrong, a program is a great thing to have, actually it’s a necessity. You need to have a plan, something to follow to get to your destination, training is no different. However, you need to be a part of any program, no matter how good, to get the very best results out of it you possibly can. You may not know how to build your own program to get the results you want, but you have it within you to reshape a program you’ve purchased or been given to fit what your body is capable on any given day. Read the rest of this entry »