Strength training copywriting

Don’t believe the nonsense on the Internet about “10 must-do exercises for beginners” and “3 months to develop your vest line.” Strength training that can adapt to your current pace of life and persist for more than 3 months without pain is a 100% effective plan for you.

To be honest, when I first entered the industry, I was crazier than anyone else. I saved up half a month’s salary to buy a complete set of fitness supplements, saved dozens of training plans for professional players, and strictly implemented the 5-point split: chest, Tuesday, back, Wednesday, shoulders, Thursday, arms, and Friday, legs. I also added an hour of aerobics on the weekend. As a result, I was just in time to catch up with the project launch. I worked overtime until 9 o’clock every day and went to the gym to practice until 11 o’clock. I caught a cold and fever within two weeks.

Later, when I met many people who practiced well, I realized that everyone's training methods are really different, and there is no unified standard at all. Let’s take the most common debate about whether it’s better to lift weights or to lift weights. I know a programmer who plays street fitness. He travels and stays in hotels all the time. He has never applied for a fitness card. He just relies on hotel chairs and door frames to practice. He pulls one-handed pull-ups whenever he wants. His body fat is maintained at about 12% all year round. The inverted triangle in a T-shirt is more obvious than many people who have been in the gym for two years. He always says, “You can do it with a body, no matter what equipment you need.” But my old partner in the gym is completely different. He started out weighing 210 pounds and couldn't even squat with his own weight. His knees hurt when he squatted. He relied on the Smith rack to slowly increase the weight from the empty bar. He lost 60 pounds in a year and gained 14 pounds of muscle mass. Now he squats 140 kilograms easily. He always said that if he had been asked to practice bodyweight exercises in the first place, he would have given up long ago.

Look, what's right and wrong? It just depends on your current conditions. If you rent a house and have no place to store your equipment, and you travel all year round, you will still get results if you practice your own self-respect thoroughly. ； If you have a fixed time to go to the gym and want to gain muscle quickly, weightlifting will definitely be more efficient. There is no need to scold each other for being unprofessional over this matter.

There is an even more controversial point: Should we train to exhaustion? I used to train with a coach in the bodybuilding system. In each group, I had to push until the last one could not be lifted, and the coach had to reach out to pick it up. The next day, I had chest pain and grinned when I put on a pullover. It is true that the dimensions increased quickly, and my arm circumference increased by 3cm in three months. But another friend of mine who practices powerlifting doesn’t agree with it at all. He has been practicing for 8 years and can pull 220 kilograms in deadlift. He leaves a margin of 1-2 reps in each set and never reaches failure. He said that when you reach failure, your movements are particularly easy to deform. You will get injured every time you practice, and you will not go far at all. Now I practice a compromise by myself. When I want to push for dimensions, I occasionally push two sets to failure. I usually keep two points of strength. After training, I can go to the vegetable market to buy groceries without being in pain the next day. I have never been injured after training for more than two years, and my muscle mass is also steadily increasing. I think it is pretty good.

Oh, by the way, don’t be deterred by the dietary requirements on the Internet. When I first started training, I boiled chicken breasts and drank protein powder until I had diarrhea. My aunt was confused for several months. Later, I asked my friend who is a nutritionist and found out that ordinary enthusiasts don’t need to do that at all. It’s strict. Just eat 1.2-1.6g of protein per kilogram of body weight every day. Now I’m craving for skewers after training. I just order two more skewers of lean meat instead of tons of milk tea and iced Coke every day. My body fat is very stable, so I won’t train in vain.

I once took care of a young girl who had just graduated. She rented an apartment in an urban village and had no means to go to the gym. She practiced glute bridges and 20 kneeling push-ups on the bed for 15 minutes every day before going to bed. She also went to the park to do two pull-ups on weekends. After practicing for half a year, it turned out that her waist no longer hurts after sitting for a long time, and her buttocks became raised when she wore jeans. She was much better than many people who had annual passes and went less than 5 times a year.

Yesterday I saw a 52-year-old aunt in the gym. She came to practice dumbbells for 20 minutes every afternoon, just for shoulders and arms. After practicing for more than a year, it used to be difficult to lift her arms due to frozen shoulder. Now she can lift a 10kg dumbbell overhead. She doesn’t even know what differentiated training is. She just knows to move every day and sweat a little.

Really, when it comes to strength training, it’s never about who can train harder and hit heavier weights, but who can train for longer. If you can keep practicing for 5 years, even if you only practice for 20 minutes each time, you will make much more money than those who retire due to injury after working hard for a year.