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    PECTORALS OF STEEL.

    Strength and power of the hardcore bodybuilder.

    A topic requested by nearly everyone,
    I will talk to you about the pecs!

    I am well aware that everyone wants to place the emphasis on the pecs!
    Purely a question of fashion? I do not think so, judging by the designs on Roman armour.

    The programme I am proposing this time will focus more on the pectorals and the bench press.

    First, a word about Proteins.

    Working the pectorals
    to increase mass and power.

    The pectoralis major can be divided into three regions:
      Upper, middle and lower,
      to keep the terminology used on the site.
    I would like to insist, however, that when working the pectorals, there is also the law of all or nothing. In other words, the pectoral is a single muscle and irrespective of the exercise, the entire muscle will be worked.

    Today, I am going to get everything off my chest since, more and more frequently, I come across pathetic situations in the gyms and on the forum.
    There are dozens of training methods: power-lifting, Weider, super-slow, pyramids, super-set, 1/3- 2/3- 3/3.
    None of these methods is better or worse than any other, possibly with the exception of the Weider which is definitely intended for lazy people. This is purely my own opinion.

    Personally, I prefer super sets and pyramids.
    I like to feel my muscle completely worn out.
    For beginners, however, this may not be the best solution. Series of 8 to 12 repetitions should produce good results.

    Programme II which I propose is the one I am currently doing.
    Many of you will consider this routine as over-training. For me, I am just doing my job, intensely, HARDCORE style!

    For those of you who point out that I am not a coach, that I have no real knowledge of bodybuilding, I have only got one thing to say:
      Just keep listening to your weedy coaches (no hard feelings, Michel ), do your "light" programmes and keep taking "spas" in your "fitness" centres. Personally, my own brand is Old-School bodybuilding.
    Your comment does not upset me, everyone has his own morphology and objectives. Not everyone necessarily wants to become a bodybuilder!

    Success in all sporting activities involves a perfect knowledge of oneself.
    The sensations you obtain in bodybuilding are the same at those you might get when cycling up a mountain pass, knowing that you are way out in front.
    If you do not know yourself fully, you will soon find that you fail to manage your energy correctly, you throw everything you have into the battle and end up sitting by the side of the road.

    I agree with what you think about the
    "new" coaches in some institutes, dressed in suits and town shoes.
    Just like other pot-bellied "veterans", proffering advice on how to lose your stomach.

    I am also from the "Old-School", a gym should only have dumbbells, barbells, discs, pulleys and benches.
    A gym should smell of sweat and not of vanilla or the forest.
    A gym should echo to the sound of athletes straining under the weight of their loads.

    Concerning this point, one chain had bought out a "real" bodybuilding gym to convert it into a "fitness institute".
    The weightlifters were soon thrown out since it was forbidden to count the series out loud and scream!

    My training is simple, it hurts, it REALLY HURTS. Never mind the injuries, never mind the pain, I continue my training, series after series, session after session. My idol is HUGO GIRARD, the strongest man in the world, who is also a colleague of mine.

    If you really think that you are going to become strong and well-muscled by spending your days writing messages on the forum, you are mistaken. Start by getting rid of your dormant testosterone in the gym!

    I fully agree with this remark.
    Irrespective of the sport, numerous sportsmen spend most of their time asking themselves questions instead of training.
    Being informed and wanting to learn is a good thing, but there is a time for everything.
    At some stage you have to drop the book and pick up the steel bars.

    The first step towards serious bodybuilding is to set yourself an objective.
    And when I say an objective, that does not mean asking your skeletal trainer that you want to put on muscular mass. You must have set yourself a true objective.
    If the objective is to do the bench press 5 times with 125 kg, then give yourself the means to achieve it, it's as simple as that!

    More and more frequently, young people become bodybuilding experts... experts???
    I personally believe that it takes years of bodybuilding to know your body well enough to optimise your muscular development.

    Who do you want to look like, Arnold or your trainer?
    If you had the choice, who would you ask for advice? I have read Arnold's biography.
    The person who taught him how to train is no more than an Austrian bodybuilder with no training as a coach!

    Having said that, I do not want to say that coaches are useless.
    I only mean that if you learn to understand your body and listen to it, your results will be even better.
    Look at Arnold…

    I know I may sound hard, but it is about time that the new generation of Bodybuilders took their responsibilities.

    This programme is not for the weak-hearted.
    Old School For ever, thanks to you Christian.