Many articles have been written about creatine and periodization. In every magazine open you’ll see thermogenic products from cover to cover. So why is it that after reading all of these articles you still aren’t as lean and muscular as you want to be? The answer is simple.
You’ve gained knowledge about some of the components of the body transformation process — not the entire picture. You just need to learn how to put all of the pieces together into a whole system.
What I’m going to do now is provide you with a series of articles that will help you put all of those fragments of body change knowledge you’ve acquired into a usable whole. The system you’re about to discover has been proven to work and it’s doable.
In this first part I’ll focus on the implementation of a weight training technology I’ve termed “Strength and Growth Training.” In that lies the essence of any body development result you want to achieve, be it fat burning, muscularity, or size.
If you’ve been looking for the perfect routine from friends, family, magazines, gym members well, that routine doesn’t exist.
Metabolic shift training will get your muscles out of their comfort zones. This will cause your body to develop new muscle and burn fat. Furthermore, as you adapt to the stimulus, progression is built in so that you never overtrain.
There are some general principle of body transformation that apply to everyone. So, although you are unique, you are also in many ways the same as other people. Once you understand general principles you’ll be able to alter some aspects of your training protocol.
There is a way to control the way that your body looks. And most people are unhappy with the amount of fat that is covering their bodies. The way to alter the amount of fat that your body burns is to control the amount of muscle that is on your body. So, you’re going to need to build muscle.
The most common mistake that people make is attempting lose fat without having a concern for muscle. Did you know that muscle is the site where fat itself is burned? So doesn’t it make sense that if you want to burn more fat that you’d want to improve that quality of your fat burning furnace?
What was your introduction to weight training? If you’re like most people you started with total body moves 3X per week. Then you probably met somebody that told you to try a split routine. Legs on Mondays. Chest and Wednesdays.
If you started with bodybuilder workouts you learned terms like supersets and forced repetitions. Then you further classified your body into sub-segments. Your chest now consists of upper, lower, inner and outer — whereas before it was just your chest.
The interesting thing is that this is the natural progression for most strength training athletes. As they advance their results seem to diminish. Why is this?
About the author: Curtis is the founder of OC Boot Camp FX and has been teaching Fullerton Boot Camps for more than 4 years. For more proven techniques on building muscle, burning fat, and transforming your body visit his Fullerton personal trainer blog now.
