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Beginning Your Journey Towards Muscle and Might 

     Although those exercises are fun and they do feel good, they won’t build muscle and might unless you’re blessed with some excellent genetics or you start taking steroids. If you want to develop that “herculean” look naturally, you’re gonna have to make the following exercises the cornerstone of your program:

I assure you that by the time you reach these poundages and return to your original program of machines and isolation exercises, you’d have almost every machine in the gym “stacked” or maxed out with the selectorized pin on the last plate. Since muscular size and strength are directly related, you’d also have gained a substantial amount of muscle given that you’re eating properly but that’s another article in itself.

For those who think that the above poundages would take forever to reach, think about it this way: If you were to add a mere half a pound per week to the bench press for the next three to five years you’d have added 76 to 130 pounds to whatever you are using right now. I know many people who would kill for this amount of improvement.

If what you are doing now is not working, it is not going to magically start working next week or next month. Remember, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. You can still do your isolation and machine exercises, but be sure to make the six exercises above your priority and devote all your energy towards reaching the above poundages. Don’t make the mistake I made when I was starting out and don’t waste anymore years.