![]() ![]() (Yeah, yeah, as long as you eat right, of course. At the end of the day, when the noise is tuned out and bodybuilding is pared down to its fundamentals, it's really as simple as "train all your muscles and they'll get bigger." Seriously. Well, hindsight being what it is, I now know that they were all right. This guy says to train triceps after back, that guy says train tris with biceps, and some other guy said train them after chest and shoulders. Point is, every month I was getting pulled in so many different directions and it was just too confusing. Magazine #1 talked about a monster chest workout, and I sure wanted a monster chest, but Magazine #4 talked about a killer superset back and chest workout, and that sounded great too, so maybe I'd try that instead. For one, bodybuilding magazines can be super-confusing for a young guy trying to cobble together his own training routine. If there's a bright side to it all, it's that I can take a look back and realize what I've learned since then. I wound up developing a serious muscle magazine addiction, reading and re-reading each of the five magazines that came out every month when I wasn't busy selling Saw Palmetto and Horny Goat Weed to creepy old guys. Like most supplement stores, we stocked the most popular training magazines. It was also my introduction to the unbelievably stereotypical meathead. There was a very well-known gym nearby, so having in-shape gym bunnies and guys with comic book proportions come into the store provided regular motivation. It was an okay gig for an 18 year-old dude. Many moons ago, when I was first getting into lifting, I worked at a popular supplement store in a local shopping mall. ![]()
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