Max Put On A Total Of 82 Pounds Of Mass In 3 Years!
Max was sick of being scrawny and feeling weak so he built his own home gym and got to work. Check out how he completely transformed his body and changed his life!
You should know something is wrong when even your best friends refer to you as "the scrawny one." However I insisted to myself that I was strong, idolizing men with smaller frames such as Bruce Lee, fooling myself into thinking that I possessed even a fraction of his strength. After a few years of being ignored by girls and shoved around by bigger guys I stumbled upon the physiques of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coleman (who I initially thought was a computer generated image.) I saw the true confidence that they possessed due to their Herculean physiques, and thought to myself, "With a body like that, I could turn my life around." Sure enough, my life has turned around.
Click To Enlarge. My Life Has Turned Around.
How I did it
I was 15-years old and couldn't join a gym in the UK, so me and my Dad decided to have a look for a home gym online where we stumbled upon the Jay CutlerPowertec advertisment. "I'm not sure about a product which has 'gross' as a tagline" was his only comment.
However it didn't take long before I owned a slightly battered, second hand Powertec with an Olympic bar and weights. I began not knowing how to train or eat at all, and just pushed out as many reps with exercises that I saw Jay doing as I could. I also tried my hand at deadlifts, which I had a natural strength for, and as the weakest of three brothers, this gave me something to work on.
Although at first skeptical, my parents eventually gave in and let me fill the garden with junk from the local tip, until I had created dip bars, a pull-up bar, some interestingly shaped dumbbells and a squat rack. I train with this equipment to this day.
Click To Enlarge. I Had Created Dip Bars, A Pull-up Bar, Some Interestingly Shaped Dumbbells And A Squat Rack. I Train With This Equipment To This Day.
Supplements
Supplements shouldn't be a big deal for a beginner, but they can be useful. I often find myself longing for NO-Xplode at the end of a hard day, then I'm forced to work out or it's money down the drain.
At the moment I am using 1 sachet of Dorian Yates NOXPUMP 30 minutes before a workout, and I have to say it is the best pre-workout supplement I have ever used.
I also use Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein. Cookies and Cream basically motivates me to get up in the morning. I use 1 scoop when I wake up, and 1 and a half after a workout.
Although I generally train whichever muscle isn't sore, my training program looks a bit like this.
TERMS YOU'LL NEED TO KNOW
Superset - Two exercises are performed consecutively without any rest.
Failure - That point in an exercise at which you have so fully fatigued your working muscles that they can no longer complete an additional repetition of a movement with strict biomechanics. You should always take your post-warm-up sets at least to the point of momentary muscular failure, and frequently past that point.
Information and Motivation is all that is needed to succeed. I have learned more from Bodybuilding.com than I could have ever imagined. Proper training and proper eating put me on the path to success, but motivation created the path in the first place. I also find that music motivates me enormously. If you can channel everything hurtful anyone ever said to you, or every time your old skinny body let you down, into that one set of deadlifts with your favorite angry music blasting behind you, you will grow emotionally as well as physically.
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