Dorian Yates

Maybe in your first year of training, first 18 months, you just go in.

Like I put 20, 25 pounds on in the first 18 months that I was training and natural as well.

So, you know, it becomes a case of diminishing returns, though.

And at some point, you can't just keep going up like this.

So I tell people train regularly.

real hard for like five or six weeks, and then come down for two weeks, maybe submaximal.

I'm telling them you can go in and do some lightweight, but nowhere near failure, blood flow, keep the maintenance.

If you want to take a week off, I think it's good, a couple of times a year.

A lot of guys, when I had a gym, the guys, I'm stuck on this and that.

I said, okay, take a week off.

Wow, no, what do you mean?

I said, man, just take a week off, yeah?

Come back in a week and tell me how you feel.

Wow, and I came back and I was stronger.

I was like, yeah, no shit, man.

Because you've rested.

You let your body rest and rebuild.

So that would be a lesson to you.

Not quite so sexy as like, I feel like I'm coming.

A raw beginner, first of all, you need to learn how to do the movements correctly before thinking about going to failure.