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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
2004 Developing a quality physique doesn’t happen overnight. Quickly acquired muscle mass has no time to plan its precise location on the body and proportion can go quickly askew. Some of today’s top competitors have made it to the international level in a half dozen years. I won Mr. Olympia after 17 years of competing and at relatively the same bodyweight I reached in my early 20s. What changed were my proportion, definition, and body lines by paying attention to little details. My quarterly publication is all about how I continue to do this. Building the Body is about how to train for your entire lifetime. As I get older and continue to train, I learn more about how to do it. I know lots about injuries because I’ve suffered many of them and have learned how to treat, live and train with them. It pains me to read some of the heavy and dangerous training techniques advocated in the muscle magazines. Training to failure isn’t a formula for success. The truth I’ve discovered is that you don’t have to lift enormous weights to grow muscle. By using stricter form, slower negatives, and stretching between sets you can get an incredible pump in all your workouts. Numbers are an abstraction, especially to muscles. Your body doesn’t know the absolute weight of what you lift, it only recognizes how heavy it feels. The secret is to make lighter weights feel heavier. Beginners and aging veteran bodybuilders need to realize how dangerous heavy lifting in non-strict form can be. If this makes sense to you, consider subscribing to Building the Body Quarterly. SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER expires December 31, 2004! Subscribe to Building the Body and get 5 issues instead of 4 for the same low price of $20, $21.40 in California, $25 in Canada, and $30 overseas. If you already subscribe, extend your subscription for another year and get an extra issue free.
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