Find out the negative sides of today's bodybuilding and why you need to look up to the bodybuilders of the "Golden Era" when Arnold was still performing. Many beginners use workout programs from various print media. As a result, without getting good results, they switch to using others, without knowing about alternative training methods. Today we will tell you why modern bodybuilding sucks.
What's wrong with modern bodybuilding?
Today you can find a lot of information about the training. But often all these techniques and programs are not effective. To find what works for you, you have to browse through tons of web resources and magazines. If the training program you have been using for several months does not give positive results, then you should not hope for a change in the situation in the near future.
In order to understand the issue of the effectiveness of your program, you first need to understand what is their counterproductiveness. Most modern techniques do not bring good results to ordinary athletes, but they stubbornly continue to use them. Often it is the lack of progress that forces a person to stop bodybuilding.
Modern training systems are mainly used by pro-athletes and are based on frequent training, and also offer to perform many movements for each muscle group. As a result, when they begin to be used by an ordinary person who decides to pump up, then besides overtraining they do not bring anything more. Of course, they can be effective when you use AAS. As you know, anabolic steroids accelerate the body's recovery and significantly change training methods.
The amount of training that has gained great popularity today is overwhelming for ordinary people. In addition to bodybuilding, you need to go to work (school) and pay a lot of attention to family problems. In most modern training methods, a lot of attention is paid to the use of sporpit, but supplements are not a panacea for all problems. Today it is a multimillion-dollar industry and no sports food manufacturer wants to part with their profits. So there is a huge amount of advertising about the need to use various additives, although in reality only a few are of value.
Most pro athletes have excellent genetic makeup and their training programs will not work for you. In addition, the era of widespread use of steroids has now begun. It is for this reason that most techniques are designed to be used by "chemical" athletes.
The decision on the need to use AAS is yours alone, and no one is going to dissuade you from doing so. But if you are not going to use anabolic steroids, and for non-performing athletes they are completely unnecessary, then modern methods are clearly not for you. The call “if you want to be a champion, then train like a champion” is pure fraud. Oftentimes, print media portray elite athletes as role models for healthy lifestyles. At the same time, no one says that of all the pharmacological agents they use, steroids are the safest. In big-time sports, the health of athletes has never been and will not be in the foreground. The main thing here is the result, and everything else is secondary. As you know, AAS began to be used in the 60s of the twentieth century and during this period many bodybuilders began to use them. If you have the opportunity to find magazines from the 40s or early 50s and compare the photographs of the athletes of those times with the bodybuilders of the steroid era, then the differences will be quite significant. However, the reason for this is not the use of new training methods, but only steroids. AAS empowers your body so you can train harder and more often.
You can admire the shapes of the modern pro-athletes, but you must understand that they were created with the help of steroids and great genetics. Using their training programs, you will never achieve great results. Often, those training methods that are advertised in the specialized literature, in fact, were not even used by elite athletes.
Modern bodybuilding has become as commercialized as possible. If we return to the question of sports nutrition, then every famous athlete has a valid contract with a sports nutrition company. Do you really think that he will give up high fees and report that some supplement is not working? Certainly not, and even more so. He will actively advertise these products, although he himself may not use them.
All print media will lose sales dramatically if they focus on the techniques that work for most athletes. For them, it is more important to pay for advertising space and high circulation. And athletes fall for this trick and happily acquire the latest issue of their favorite magazine, hoping to find something useful for themselves. However, as a result, they will again face a lack of progress and wasted time in the hall.
Let's not deny the fact that there are straight people among pro-athletes. But with excellent genetics, their training programs are very similar to "chemical" and are also not suitable for us ordinary people. Many people want to follow the programs of builders of the past, say Arnie. At the same time, they again forget that Schwarzenegger had excellent genetic potential and his training methods will not be effective for most of you.
If you want to constantly progress, then you need to draw up your own training program. Of course, you will need time to make it optimal. However, do not be afraid to experiment, because this is the only way you will achieve positive results.
Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about his take on modern bodybuilding in this video:
