Muscle Building Quickly

A long long time ago, way back before the multi-million supplement industry existed, back when it was illegal to walk around outside without a big mustache, guys like Eugene Sandow and Charles Atlas were getting stared at with awe by people around them.

Back then we didn’t have whey protein, steroids or the Ab Extender 9000 (buy now and save 50%), yet there were people who gained muscle without all of that stuff.

Classic bodybuilding or old-school bodybuilding is the best way to describe what those old-timey guys did, today’s bodybuilding seems to have all these “breakthroughs” that sucker everyone into buying all this pointless junk.

“Buy My Stuff”

It seems that today the main focus of those big companies is to fill people’s “needs” instead of educating them, I have studied a bit of marketing lately and according to what I’ve learned the best way to make money is to find a group of people who have some sort of desire or need, and sell them what they want.

While in my opinion it certainly is possible to help a lot of people this way, most people don’t really know what they really need, we tend to believe that there is some secret method to build muscle that the pros are hiding from us(kind of contradicts the title doesn’t it), the big companies know this and take advantage of us instead of teaching us the truth and we believe them.

The Old-Timey Guys

Eugene Sandow is considered “Father of Modern Bodybuilding”, at first he appeared in stage shows in which he posed, he then opened one of the first gyms, he started the first ever bodybuilding Competitions in which he was a judge and he taught people about muscle building and how to do it.

Back then there could not possibly have been a big secret that caused classic bodybuilders to get bigger because there were no supplements or high tech devices.

Most of the real breakthroughs were made back then, the same exercises, like barbell curls that we do today were revolutionary back then, most of today’s stuff is more evolutionary, you do stimulate the same muscle with the ab rollout equipment as with crunches, don’t you?

Today you might see an ad on how to gain 20 lbs in a month with this magic powder and believe that its possible, I mean it says so in the magazine why would it not be true, right? Most magazines are owned by big supplement companies by the way.

Fast muscle Gains

It took the Eugene years to get the way he was just as it would take years for someone to gain muscle today, even with all the supplements that exist today.

It is possible to actually make great gains when you first start out, your body is forced to adapt rapidly to the new tension that you are putting on it but it still takes a certain amount of time, you don’t get big biceps by doing curls for a day.

Some guys make large gains in their first time, others don’t, what separates the people who make great gains from the losers is that they stick to it, they keep working out even if they did not get very big at first, the losers don’t.

Conclusion

The real secret that the great legends knew is that you need to stick to the basics, back in the late 1890s no one could possibly know how these guys were gaining muscle.

Today we have the internet, which basically gives us access to ALL the bodybuilding info (and beyond) that we need for FREE. You don’t need to take any effort to look for what to do, all you must do is start working out.

Alex

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