“Putting on muscle is easy” – Jordan Peters

Progressive overload, nutrition, sleep, willingness to endure pain/discomfort, a growth mentality. All very easy/simple on paper.

Adherence, mentality, ownership is what makes the “on paper” stuff the hardest part, as far as daily actions are concerned. The most important thing to recognize here is 95% of all results are produced as a result of these two bullet points. And the most important take home: DON’T GET LOST IN THE WEEDS looking for some magical, complicated reason you aren’t producing results. Be honest/realistic with yourself. Get yourself in order with these first two, then let’s dig into the nuance.

The rest. The nuance: Split, exercise selection, volume, training frequency, training proximity to failure, supplements, etc. These are most important for longevity (orthopedic), individual response (genetics, structure, “lagging” body parts), and pursuing optimal/efficiency. These absolutely become more important the more advanced you get, but overall WAY too much time, energy and emotion is invested into all these nuanced variables.

BUILD SOLID PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS to help make decisions. Don’t look for right/wrong, just understand and place things – No Teams – use your brain, not your emotion. And realize as long as people are involved, there can never be one “right” answer. The best you can do for yourself is make educated decisions, and manage expectations from there.