While I’ve been sitting here trying to come up with content, thinking about how I have trained and the things I have done, it has dawned on me that nothing I ever did was all that special.

While thinking about how I built my shoulders, I only had 4 exercises to write about. Three sets of four different exercises and that’s it. The entire plan could be written on a post-it note. The same goes for my workout split in those early days. four days a week, about 1 hour every day and that was it.

My rep schemes didn’t change all that often, my exercise selection didn’t either, neither did the days I worked out or the time I spent in the gym. The only major change was the change from using lighter weights to using heavier weights as I progressed. It was all part of a very simple, but very repeatable formula. Almost too simple it seems……

This is the fitness secret that everyone keeps asking for but no one wants to see. Everyone is hoping for that magic exercise, or magic diet or secret supplement that can allow them to reach their goals, but ultimately they hope that they can reach their goals by doing less work as well. Ultimately this seems to be the goal, to achieve their goals but without working for them. The problem is that if they spent just a little less time working for the secret and a little more time  working out in the gym they would already have those goals or be well on their way to them.

To get bigger and stronger you need only two things: A simple routine made up of big movements that you can add weight to easily, and a plan that you can easily stick to every week. If that is a three day plan then so be it. Four day plan, fine. If it is easy for you to do then go 5 days a week. The point is that going to the gym and deciding what movements to do should be the easiest part of all this.

Stop making it hard!

Simple and consistent is the key.