There is a misconception that resistance training (weights) automatically make you BIG…

If it were as easy as lifting a few weights and you automatically got huge the gyms wouldn’t be packed with underweight men in their early 20’s trying to bulk up by lifting weights and guzzling down 1000 kcal weight gain shakes.

So I guess this article is going to go down two routes…

1. If you want to get bigger, You cannot expect to take a pill or drink some stupid powder and think you can get huge…

It doesn’t work like that…

A protein powder is a supplement… an addition to your current nutrition plan… you don’t compensate for eating crap foods and no protein all day by guzzling down protein shakes!

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You sort your nutrition out, eat enough CLEAN calories and then in addition to that and then use protein powder as a convenience on occasion… not as a cure.

2. If you don’t want to be ‘too’ big… do the same as above because you aren’t going to get ‘too big’ any time soon… it takes years of dedication, education and hard training to get BIG, you can get lean reasonably fast and look ‘muscular’…

Problem with getting lean when you haven’t got an appreciable amount of muscle mass is you will probably weigh a hefty 140 lbs and fall over on a windy day…

You see weights are a tool, it depends how you use them and what you eat with them… you wont get big if you don’t eat enough…you will lose weight…and that is some peoples goal…

You can’t naturally get TOO big… do you think it happens by accident… or with very little effort… one morning you just wake up and you look like Ronnie coleman?

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It doesn’t happen like that…

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On the flip side I get people pointing at the cover of a fitness magazine saying

‘I don’t want to get too big…maybe just as big as that guy’

As if it were a simple task…sometimes cover models and physique athletes are treated if they are lesser beings because they don’t weigh 300lbs…

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‘That guy’ is 185lb and shredded at about 4% bodyfat… years of dedication and hard work…not a physique you can just develop overnight…

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On a final note…I got an email the other day from somebody saying…

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‘I didn’t expect the ‘Athlete physique’ training system to be so difficult… I was actually looking for one of those ‘sissy’ 20 minutes 3 days/ week programmes that you take the piss out of in the athlete physique manual…’

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That’s why I take the piss out of them… because they don’t work!

Think about this one…

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Two people on the EXACT same training programme one with excess calories and restrict the other persons calories and PRESTO!!

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One will gain muscle and the other will lose fat it… Weights are a tool and can be used for fat loss or muscle gain but it depends on a number of factors…

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This is a theory I like to call ‘Micro bulking’ and ‘Micro Cutting’ and is one of the principles Ian used to build muscle and burn fat at the same time.

Check it out here >>> http://athletephysique.com

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