DAVE CROSLAND believes most people in the gym are making the same mistake – and it has nothing to do with how hard they work.
"Most people just don't train intensely enough," he says in the first instalment of his new FrontDouble video column, The Definitive Cros Word. "No amount of drugs is going to replace that stimulation. The better you stimulate, the less drugs you need, the healthier you are, the harder you can train."
Crosland identifies three pillars of progress – training, recovery and nutrition – and argues training comes first, because it creates the stimulus everything else responds to.
The problem, he says, is that too many lifters mistake the measure for the goal. Reps, sets and heavier weights are ways of tracking progress, not the point of training. "The goal of training is to stimulate the target muscle that you want to grow," he said.
He uses the bench press as an example: plenty of people do it, but many feel it in their shoulders, triceps and elbows rather than their chest, usually from going too heavy or too fast.
Dave Crosland is the founder of blood analysis service eVal and an experienced coach. For coaching enquiries, email: dave@croslands.org.uk
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