Instead of hopping on the treadmill, prioritize meaningful weight-training. Don’t seek refuge in machines either. Pumping Iron taught us that the barbell should center any quality training program for someone looking to gain muscle. Remember, this is all about signaling. Take the barbell bench press and the pec deck machine as a comparison. During a bench press, the bar is stabilized as it wobbles above the throat. This creates a strong signal. If your body could talk it would probably say, “If you lose your focus here, this barbell will crush my larynx.” Compare that to sitting on the pec deck machine, not having to stabilize much of anything, and probably being able to manage yawning once or twice.
Posted July 30, 2019 05:00 AM
Instead of hopping on the treadmill, prioritize meaningful weight-training. Don’t seek refuge in machines either. Pumping Iron taught us that the barbell should center any quality training program for someone looking to gain muscle. Remember, this is all about signaling. Take the barbell bench press and the pec deck machine as a comparison. During a bench press, the bar is stabilized as it wobbles above the throat. This creates a strong signal. If your body could talk it would probably say, “If you lose your focus here, this barbell will crush my larynx.” Compare that to sitting on the pec deck machine, not having to stabilize much of anything, and probably being able to manage yawning once or twice.
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