Why you suck at lifting.

If you have been training for 5 years and cant deadlift 2x bodyweight, or you still struggle with unweighted pullups/chinups, or squatting anything heavier then your bodyweight seems impossible....

You suck at lifting.

Now, I wont make fun, I should, but I wont.

I bet if you struggle with a 2x bw deadlift, you also struggle with keeping the fat off, sticking to a meal plan, gaining muscle, and improving. Ive come to the sad conclusion that people don't work as hard as they claim to. Not even close.

Now, you want to get better, I understand. Here is some tips.

1) Insanity.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - Benjamin Franklin

You always do the same thing, you stay at the same rep ranges, you use the same weights everyday, you use the same exercises, you lift at the same time, you lift in the same order, you use the same training split, you use the same training theories for years, and hey guess what, you get the same (no) results!

With a simple change in any of the above mentioned points you can turn things around. If you have always trained in the 5-10 rep range, why not try heavy singles, or sets of 20? What do you got to lose? Nothing. If you always have consumed 3000cals a day, try 3500, see what happens. If you have always done HIT, do some volume training, if you have always done volume training, why not try EDT? You get the point. Change things up, often.

2) Intensity.

Once in a while you need to put near every bit of training advice you have ever heard out the window and just kill it in the gym. Once in a while, you should be on the verge of blacking out or puking. Taking your body to the absolute limits of strength, speed, power or size is not easy, if it was, everyone would have their goals. If you have never blacked out, broken blood vessels, collapsed or puked in a workout, you may not be giving 100% effort.

You see people with their fancy 'workout drinks'.. Thats all fine and good, but please, if you can stomach sipping on that crap in between sets of heavy deadlifts, you aren't going heavy enough.

After some workouts, you should feel dead. Your day shot. If you take your body to the limits, its not going to like it. Your shirt will be drenched with sweat, your face will be red, eyes bloodshot. You should look like you just got out of a battle, not a tanning salon.

3) Concentration.

In the gym you have to focus. Talking about how drunk you where last night should not be what you talk about between sets. In between sets, if you can breath, you can quickly oogle at a pretty girl (who wont find you attractive btw), or you can slip a few words of encouragement to your workout partner.. thats it. I don't care how much that club sucked or how many times you banged that girl, really, I don't, I'm concentrating on lifting.

4) Dedication.

If you skip workouts often, cheat meals often (missing a meal is a cheat too remember), your not dedicated enough for this. Thats fine, not everyone was meant to be a lifter. But if you aren't dedicated don't expect shit all for results, don't complain when you come to the sad realization that you are fat and your pants don't fit, don't tell me working out doesn't work for weight loss. No, YOU don't work for weight loss. Fat people are fine with me, as long as they don't complain about being fat, you did it to yourself, fatty.


Thats all I got. Go out and lift something heavy.