Another From Dave Draper

[Old_Fart2]

Dave waxes philosophical this week in his current newsletter. This is an excerpt:

About your training… though we’re all different, the same general principles apply: moderate weight, higher and more focused reps, increased pace without haste, multi-set training techniques, intensity in performance, no misplaced workouts and a zeal that comes from the inspiration of high hopes and unswerving confidence.

You’re bound and determined, on target and heading for a destination.

You’re not wandering about aimlessly.

There are various levels of bulking up and leaning down. The longer you invest in the bulking phase of training, with high performance, of course, the bigger and harder your muscular base grows. Thus, upon the implementation of the defining phase, the end product will be larger and more impressively defined, and with less gut-wrenching difficulty. Mounds of dense muscle mass to mold, less fatty bulk to trim away.

A few months of bulking are not enough. And a few months of bulking for today’s preening bodybuilders are far more than they generally can stand.

If they don’t start out fat and overweight and in a rush to lose the fatty pounds, they start thin and under-muscled and in a rush to gain muscular pounds. The first signs of a roll around the midsection and they freak; they go on a diet and increase their aerobic exercise. The roll fades along with their scant muscle gain and they repeat step one of the weight-gain process. Oops! It’s that nasty roll again, and the cycle continues. At best they increase their general conditioning, which is good, great even, but frustrating to the burgeoning muscleman inside.

Real musclebuilding requires a dedication to construction-zone training.

You don’t build your dream house or custom hot rod or garden retreat without creating a mess in the process. There’s the bare ground and foundation, the raw framework, tools in heaps and various stages of unfinished work. Long before it all comes together, it all falls apart again and again. That’s how things are built.

Each of us is a work in progress.

Too many modern lifters are daydreaming or scheming and not prepared for the work or the mess, the teardown and repair, the clearing, building and trimming. When offered the hard hat and shovel, crowbar and sledge, they say, "It’s time for a coffee break, boss." They’ll never hear the sweet roar of their hot rod as they park in the front of their dream house and retreat to the garden for long hours of satisfaction and joy.

Apart from the simple diet already outlined, this is what I did in the past and what I do now when I get the urge to trim back the gathering overgrowth.

~ Have your resolve firmly, unequivocally in place. Accentuate it with passion -- the only way mankind accomplishes great things.

~ Imagine your goal in the making, visualize your goal in its completion and enjoy the stages of your participation and control as totally as if they were real. To your mind’s eye, they are. This is no trick of the mind. It’s the principle of positive thinking, the oldest method of successful achievement known to man and muscleheads -- Perceive and know a thing and it’s yours.

~ Break out the tuna, poultry, lean red meat and salads -- the ingredients to energize and build lean, strong muscle as the fat slips away.

[bouncer]

I'm really liking his stuff these days. Worth reading eh?

[Old_Fart2]

He's always an inspiration to me. Sometimes a little long-winded, but he's got to be the most enthusiastic 60+ weight lifter around.

Here's him and Arnold back in the days:

[Killa_Z]

good post, to everyone who wants the body but doesnt want to put in the work and also understand that it doesnt happen overnight........ the bar is bending major, are they 20 or 25kg plates on there?

[Old_Fart2]

They look like 20 kg (45 lbs) plates to me, but may be more. Or maybe its a cheap bar.

[somedoode]

GOod post oldfart. And damn, that bar looks like its about to snap in half.

[Old_Fart2]

Check the depth on the squat, too. And the old Dave Draper is still squatting over 500 lbs. the last I heard!

[Killa_Z]

his forearms look pretty big there aswell, they look bigger than arnies but that could be the angle

[somedoode]

just notice something. Is he wearing jeans while doing this? That would be awfully uncomfortable to do wouldn't it?

[zarathustra]

Originally Posted by somedoode

just notice something. Is he wearing jeans while doing this? That would be awfully uncomfortable to do wouldn't it?

old school squat shirt?

[Old_Fart2]

Originally Posted by somedoode

just notice something. Is he wearing jeans while doing this? That would be awfully uncomfortable to do wouldn't it?

I would think you'd end up splitting open quite a few pairs of jeans! However, if they were made of some kind of elastic material like some women's jeans are, it could be advantageous.