Excerpt From: Vince Gironda The Greatest Trainer That Ever Lived By Ron Kosloff Early on in my association with this young fellow Im training, he observed that we werent doing much. You never want to work a muscle more than twice in one week, and when you work it, you work it with intensity. You never rest for more than 15 or 20 seconds between sets. When you work with intensity youll be surprised how fast you get the pump, which is what youre looking for. Remember, when youre trying to gain, you never work your stomach because the stress attacks and shocks the nerves in your solar plexus and then your hormone levels go down. Then you have to rest because this is when HGH is released by your pituitary and youll gain muscular size. I said, Im going to show you how not to work out. Im not criticizing anybody, but this is how most people train. I pointed to a fellow in the gym, a local bodybuilding hero whod won a few contests and was a steroid user. Hes probably here six days per week, I explained, but when he comes in he doesnt do very much. He thinks that just being in the gym and taking steroids is going to increase his physique, which will probably happen with the steroids. I told the kid to watch this guy. He was doing the bench press for his chest, but the bench press is not a chest exercise. The neck press is, as Vince taught. He grunted and groaned and grunted and groaned, did about 7 or 8 reps, and then sat there for ten minutes looking at himself in the mirror. Then he got up and went for a drink of water. A few minutes later he came back and did another set. He grunted and groaned some more and then went into the next room and b.sd with some guys for 10 or 15 minutes before doing another set. When hed finished his chest, he did his delts the same way. He read the bulletin board, did about 4 sets, and left. Most guys spend hours at the gym and tell their girlfriends about their long, hard workouts. Well, this guy did practically nothing. He spent more time reading the bulletin board, drinking the water, and looking at himself in the mirror than he did working out. There was nothing intense to his workout. Another question the kid asked me was, What about personal trainers? How come youre a personal trainer and (pointing to another fellow in the gym who was doing personal training) hes certified? So I said, Certified by whom? I know that guys methods. Hell tell you to eat gobs and gobs of complex carbohydrates. Look at the people he trains. Are they making any progress? No. Youre going to get into this gym four times a week and youre going to work out Monday a half hour, Tuesday a half hour, Thursday a half hour, Friday a half hour, and then youre going to go home. These people spend two and three hours a day in a gym and their personal trainer kills them. Why? Because otherwise they dont feel like they have got their moneys worth. They dont understand the overload principle. German scientists proved - and this was documented - that the only way you can increase the size of the muscle is by what they call the German overload principle: The greatest amount of work in the least amount of time. How much work you do doesnt matter. How fast you do it is what counts. Thats why sprinters have far, far superior physiques to long distance runners, who overtrain. The principle was proven conclusively a hundred years ago by German scientist, and thats the method Vince adapted. Thats why his students always looked a thousand times better than anyone else. The guy was just so brilliant it was almost mind-boggling. The scientific principles and ideas he would use to create a physique were just amazing. These people dont understand that. They dont understand nutrition. They dont understand that the word protein means most important. I showed the kid what this personal trainer was doing wrong. He was telling people to grab the weight with their thumbs around the bar. You almost never put your thumb around the bar - only in a few exercises. In any exercise you will inadvertently use your forearm to help lift the weight. If you put your thumb under the bar, its called a palm grip. Some call it a false grip. He had these people doing sit ups and leg raises. They were trying to gain size but not getting anywhere because, as Vince explained, of the shock to the solar plexus. He was having them do bench press for chest, but the bench press is not a chest exercise. Its mostly an exercise for the front delts. When you bring the bar down to the lower pec line, youre working your delts. If you arch your back to hoist the weight up, youre using the teres major. If you put your thumb around the bar, youre using your triceps and forearms. Youre working everything but your chest. Vince preached isolation exercises. He really scoffed at personal trainers because they didnt know much. Somebody just made five hundred dollars to give them a phony certification, and they still didnt know what they were doing. They dont know much about kinesiology. They dont know much about how a muscle works, and if you dont know how a muscle works, how can you work a muscle? Like Vince, I teach nutrition first and then exercise. I dont just teach exercise and ignore nutrition because bodybuilding is 85% nutrition. Some people look but they never really see. Some people listen but they never really hear. Those are just some of the lessons of life, and most people never learn lifes lessons. Unfortunately, big advertising and marketing are America. Doesnt make any difference what you have as long as you market it correctly. Ive often said that if somebody produced rabbit pellets and told bodybuilders they were good for you, bodybuilders would be eating rabbit pellets without question.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:18:05 +0000
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