I admit, for a long time I was in to the pretty boy bodybuilding thing.  I used to hit one body part per day, doing at least 20 sets, and keeping my reps between 8-12.  After that I would spend another 45 minutes on the treadmill or ellipticall.  I did this all with the hope of getting huge and lean.

You know what?  All those workouts I followed religiously from Flex and Muscle and Fitness never got me anywhere!  Growing up I trained like beast.  My training was heavy pushing, pulling, and pressing and that was about it.  It wasn’t until I got back to that type of training that I started making real gains again.  That is why I think real world strength training beats the hell out of pretty boy bodybuilding any day of the week.

Don’t get me wrong bodybuilding has it’s place and still influences some of my training today.  But, when you spend more time on isolation exercises and bicep curls than you do squatting, deadlifting, or overhead pressing, that’s a problem.  Unfortunately I just described about 95% of the people in gyms today.

So, if you’re looking to bust through a training rut and get some serious results, start training for real world strength.  Make sure you train heavy and hard with compounds movements like the squat and deadlift.  Use different tools like sandbags and kettlebell.  Under any circumstance don’t forget bodyweight training.

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