Okay, not only that, we're gonna talk a bit about the basics of bodybuilding and nutrition, and I'm gonna utilize a metaphor.
Now, if you take the glorious pill, you adher the science and history.
If you're a bit leftist, you adher the feelings.
Now, I'm gonna consult a true friend, Archimedes of Syracuse.
Now, Arishimedes of Syracuse was a Greek living in Magna Grisia in Syracuse, in Sicily.
Was a mathematician and inventor.
Now, why I call upon the knowledge of this particular true friend is that I would like to give you the perspective of viewing bodybuilding and nutrition in terms of mathematics, as it were.
So, if you view everything as numbers, perhaps it might sound a bit boring in the beginning, but it's a good thing to keep in mind and realize that this is just a basic video to get you to think in a certain way.
Now, let's begin with the strength training itself.
Keep in mind, mathematics is good, feelings are bad in this example.
So, you have a good session.
How do you know if you have a good session?
Is it because you feel tired, you feel worn out, you feel this and that?
No, as I said, disregard sensations and feelings and go look strictly at the mathematics side of things.
So, if we have a 5x5 bench press at 100 kilo, that is your beginning.
Now, what is a good session for your next session?
Yeah, it can be 5x5 at 102.5 kilograms.
That is a good session for you.
It's not enough that you feel worn out and tired.
And this is also one of the reasons I don't like CrossFit, because it's basically, oh, you know, now I feel tired, now I wore myself out.
No, but you have to have a set mathematical plan, as it were, which you adhere to, so that you know for a fact that you went, that you became stronger.
It isn't enough that you feel that you've gotten stronger, you have to know exactly that you have gotten stronger, and you do that via having, you know, a set progression plan.
Whatever it might be, it might just be that you have increased one repetition on each set, on each exercise.
It can be all of these sort of things, but you have to know exactly what you're doing.
So you don't let your feelings dictate that, because feelings are unreliable.
And now, let's switch to the dietary part.
You have either a really skinny guy who says, like, oh, you know, I eat so much every day.
And then I say, okay, but show me how much do you eat.
Like, write down exactly what you eat.
Because if you only go with a feeling of eating much, then you will probably not eat as much because your body is used to eating like here and then you start eating there and it feels like you're full all the time where you actually need to be up here caloric wise to make sufficient gains.
So never trust your feelings.
Same thing with a really really fat person who says like, oh you know I ate so little today and then you ask like okay but write down and tell me exactly what you ate and there will be like huge amounts of food that you've actually eaten because humans are extremely bad at self-estimating what they've actually eaten.
So if you keep that mathematic point of view in mind that, oh you know, it doesn't matter that I feel that I've eaten a lot of protein today.
No, write down exactly how much protein you've had.
For me, it's about 160 grams.
Now I've been at it for so long so I basically know what adds up to what.
But in the beginning, just you need to measure a bit.
You need to learn to calculate these things so you know in the future that I need this amount.
So you don't go with feelings of stuff.
So to conclude this little perspective video in regards to training, have a set plan, adhere to that.
Don't let your feelings dictate how well a workout went because the feelings are completely irrelevant.
What is relevant is that you've actually gotten stronger.
Same thing with your diet.
How much do you eat?
Are you sure that you're actually getting in the sufficient needs for your body?
