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Winter 2017 Winter 2017 The Natural
o o o o o o you you you ever feel like you’ve just driven yourself into a a a a a a brick wall and have no clue how to to to to get around it? Have you you BY MIKE HAMILL Way DNGA CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER
ever walked into a a a a a a a a a gym and just felt totally lost about what to to to do? Have you been working out out for eons with little or or or or no results either in in strength or or or body composition?
To stop treading water with your your training and to to get around your your walls you you you you you must develop develop a a a a a a a a a a a a plan plan Once you you you you you develop develop a a a a a a a a plan plan and implement it it it you you you you you need need to to keep a a a a a a a a record to to to to see if it’s it’s working working working If it’s it’s not not working working working you you need need to to to figure out what’s not not working working working and try to to to fix it it it This is is impossible if you you you don’t know what what you’ve been doing so it is imperative you you you keep a a a a a a a a a record record Keeping a a a a a a a a a training record record or or or or log may seem like a a a a a a a a a a a a pain but I cannot over- state its importance in in in in obtaining the results you you want It is not only a a a a a a a a a record record of your past workouts workouts it’s a a a a a a a a a roadmap to future workouts workouts It It keeps you you you focused It It records suc- cesses and failures giving you you an an an invaluable means of correcting problems In developing a a a a a a a a a plan the the first thing you you must realize
is that you you you you cannot approach training with the the the idea of lifting as as much weight as as you you you you can can all all the the time you you you you must employ what is called periodization or or cycling to your training In short you you must include periods of light me- dium and heavy workouts in in in in in in addition to rest throughout your training year year yes I said year! you you shouldn’t expect to pick up a a a a a a a a a a basketball for the the the first time shoot a a a a a a a a a a few shots then go blow Lebron James off the the the the court It takes time time to to learn the the the game Practice it and improve The same applies to to your training Results take time time hard work and patience 24 NGA NATURAL mag NGA NATURAL mag