Are You Wasting Your Time in the Gym?
In this Free audio interview, IFBB Bodybuilder Ben Pakulski talks about the story behind his new creation: Mass Intentions 40.
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It all started at 15 years old for little Ben. He was a vegetarian long distance runner; this pretty much came from not wanting to be a fat person like other people around him. He started learning as much as possible from bodybuilding magazines and later nutrition and biomechanics.
He began to notice that there’s a big difference between the elite muscle builders and the beginners. He then decided he would be the one to bridge the gap and bring knowledge to everybody.
Building muscle takes knowledge. For instance, because your body will always want to stay in the movements and positions where it is strong already and, to build the max muscle you will need to be aware of lengthening a muscle through out all the necessary areas. What it looks like and what it feels like. You want a balanced musculature.
In other words, everyone should be treated as a natural athlete. Your muscles require certain things for growth, and this applies to everyone.
Today many things are ego based. Even in the gym people compete over who can lift more. What matters is that you build muscle so you need to go beyond just ego, and use less weight if you have to. Its not about weight, it’s about tension in the muscle. Muscles can only feel tension, they can’t calculate weight.
Therefore, you should strive to increase time under tension. You gotta FEEL it, you gotta know what muscles are working. This is where intentions come into play. If you don’t apply tension in the right areas, you’re basically wasting your time.
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