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Fire Your Personal Trainer 7
And Kick Your Own Damn Ass

During the period from the 60’s to the present, the gap between what
can be achieved naturally without drugs and what top level athletes are
achieving with drugs, has gotten bigger and bigger. This has, in turn,
made some people progressively more dissatisfied and unhappy with
the results they are able to achieve by exercising without using PEDs.

Some people read about lifters from the 60’s and roll their eyes and say
those old-timers looked like beginners compared to the guys today, so

why study how they trained? Discussing them is a waste of time! Some
people say if drugs make all the difference why even bother with a book
about training? Just take drugs.

Critics of different training routines always have a go-to explanation for
why a particular routine works: the people using the routine take drugs
and the routine is useless to people who do not. I have seen this criticism
leveled at hi-volume routines, low volume routines, powerlifting routines,

Arthur Jones’s high intensity routines, the isometric routine followed by
Olympic weightlifter Bill March, Westside and everything in between.
Any time you want to take a shot at an expert’s advice, say “it only works
for people using drugs.”

This mindset can be a problem. It might mean that we miss out on good
advice that can help us. We wind up throwing the baby out with the bath
water; the pickle out with the brine; the meat out with the bones. You get

the picture.

To the extent possible, I have attempted to address this issue in this book.
It hangs in the background of every discussion regarding how to work
out. We thirst for knowledge; we want to know how the people who have
achieved amazing things did it; and then we question, and ultimately
reject the advice we’re given because we think it’s tainted.