Probably the best training advice I've ever heard

Hanley

If you're sensitive to "hardcore" talk then please don't read on

This is taken from an answer Jim Wendler gave on the elitefts.com Q&A some time ago;

Jim wrote:

First of all, let me state that I am in NO way criticizing you. My post was in NO way an attack at you. Unfortunately, and as Al Pacino said in the movie, Scent of a Woman, I'm just getting started.

The problem that I have with some of the crap that I see being spewed is that it is simply retarded bull****. End of story. I have spent my goddamn life trying to be stronger than a ****ing ox and hanging out with people and training with people and work with a company that is 100% ****ing dedicated to getting people strong. That is a fact.

Then I hear story after story of these people who are telling people how to get strong and putting out articles on this subject. Well, I call bull****. I am not going to apologize anymore for being strong. And neither is Dave. I'm putting an end to this right now.

Just because some authors couldn't lift the **** that falls out of their ass doesn't mean they aren't good coaches. But if you really want to know how to get strong; and I'm not talking about bench pressing 315lbs. I'm talking about doing some sick-ass ****, then go seek out the freaks. Sure, they may not know the ins/out of Supertraining or whatever. But if you know what questions to ask, I guarantee they will have 10 times the information than any of these "coaches" do. If I have a question about training on getting strong, I'm asking Donnie, Marc, Chad, Dave, Todd, Lou, Chuck, etc. NOT someone that can barely lift a wiffle-ball bat.

These critics like to use the fact that many of us are genetic freaks (what a crock of ****) or that we are all drugged to the gills. That's their excuse for being able to fit through a chain-link fence. Again, excuses. You want to know what it's like to feel 405 and 3 blue bands/side and how to set up for that? Don't ask the "coaches", ask the guys that know what the hell it's like to feel like your head is going to blow off, even on the warm-up sets.

I have said this a 1000 times; getting strong hasn't changed in the last 100 years.

Lift heavy ****
Eat some food
Recover
Repeat as necessary

More is not better, better is better. Whoever says differently is not better, just looking for a new way to get their name in print.

So to answer your question; the only advice I have for you is DO IT...try it out and see what happens. Even if it sucks, you will at least have something to cross off your list.

The theories being expounded by those "in the know" are full of theory and lack in practical education. Be different; actually do something. Before you know it, you will develop into a real lifter, not someone that sits at his desk like a waif-model.

He closes above his name with
"your education starts in the weightroom, not on the internet."

p-nut

Brilliant!!

Transform

Agreed

Dragan

More is not better, better is better. Whoever says differently is not better, just looking for a new way to get their name in print.

Thats something that has come up before. About how the differences between various coaches, techniques and articles on websites are really **** all.

Your lift something heavy, you eat and rest and then you grow.

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