It’s that time of year… If you are a gym-goer, you have undoubtedly noticed a large increase in the in bodies at your gym. Lines are long and successfully completing an intense workout can be a frustrating thing.

Quick Tip – Smart bodybuilders schedule a 2 week training break for the first of the year. This gets them by the resolutioner rush. By the time they head back to the gym mid-January, the resolutioners’ numbers have begun their very predictable dwindling.

In This Issue...

Site New Stuff

• Wanna Get BIG and Famous? - A new ABC show, “Dream On, America,” is looking for those who have the dream of bulking up – the scrawny to brawny story. Don’t know about you, but I’d love to see it. Fat people looking to lose are just dominating reality TV and it is making me ill.

Details here and the application form is here. Hurry, they told me they wanted all applications in by the end of January (for the first shows, I guess?).


• So, why do all the “resolutioners” fail? In my experience, the majority of people who begin a physique-changing program fail before they begin. They either A) fail to do the planning necessary to develop an intelligent strategy that will lead them to their goals and/or B) they simply don’t get their mind set to accomplish the task.

From Sean Nalewanyj, here are 2 great articles on how to prepare yourself mentally, on how to make sure you follow-through all the way to some impressive physique changes. The first talks about developing the only personality that ever achieves significant muscle building success and the second talks about giving yourself a break – realizing that you’re not going to be “perfect” and persevering through your failings.

• The Muscle Building Personality
• The Perfect Bodybuilding Program?

From Jeff Anderson, Shopping Tips for the Budget Bodybuilding Diet.


• And, 3 new program reviews are up…

• Lee Hayward and Bryan Kernan’s Bio-Genetic Muscle Weight Gain System Review
• Paul Becker’s Truly Huge Review
• Randy McLean’s Weight Gain Guidance Review

Program Updates

Will Brink’s Muscle Building Nutrition is now Will Brink’s Bodybuilding Revealed. The name is new but the facts remain the same – this program is the undisputed king of intelligent bodybuilding information anywhere. From the ebook which is now 632 pages of fluff-free guidance on nutrition, training and supplements to the tools and forums, no one else is coming close to presenting such a complete look at solid muscle gain strategy.

And, really, no else is more qualified to give out that information then Will Brink and his friends. You can check out my updated full review of Will Brink’s Bodybuilding Revealed.

Or you can download a free evaluation copy of Bodybuilding Revealed here. Along with the evaluation copy, you get a free copy of Will’s ebook The Perfect Rep (benefits of and tips to performing continuous tension reps).

I highly recommend you take the time to download and read the above ebooks – really good stuff and free. Can’t beat that. Brink simply always overdelivers.

From the In-Box - Q&A

I have been following the advice on your site starting on January 1. I have worked out every day and increased my diet – consuming at least 3,300 calories every day (I weigh 162) . I drink 3 N-Large shakes a day with milk and taking NO-explode with creatine (3 scoops a day)…. I have not gained anything, maybe I even lost a pound. How is that possible? I also feel like I have less energy. Is that normal? Does it take a while to get going? (from D.T.)

You aren’t following the advice on my site. I didn’t suggest you work out “every day.” I didn’t tell you to take NO-Explode. I didn’t tell you to get about 75% (by my estimates) of your calories from shakes.

You are instead taking random advice and adding a lot of “beginner’s logic” to that. Beginner’s logic tells you that if someone tells you to train 3 days a week, that if you then double that you will get twice the results. If someone tells you to drink 1 shake a day, then drinking 3 will give you 3 times the benefit.

It doesn’t work like that. Bodybuilding results go to those who properly balance training, rest and nutrition. Beginner’s logic will destroy any chance you have to build muscle.

You are overwhelming your body. It won’t “get going” in time. It will instead progress further into an overtraining state and your health (and energy) will suffer.

My Advice: Re-read the site. STOP everything you are doing.

Allow your body a full two weeks to regroup from the torture you have been subjecting it to. Return with a more “sane” schedule. Do 3 workouts per week, working each muscle group just once per week. A workout should last no more than one hour.

Make sure your diet is based on solid, whole food nutrition. Use supplements to “supplement” your diet, not be it. You know, there is a reason that desperate overweight people get their jaws wired shut to lose weight – they can drink chocolate shakes all day long and still lose weight. It creates lazy digestion where your body doesn’t absorb all the nutrition. At a maximum, 50% of your calories should come from liquid sources (less is better).

Finish off your current supply of NO-Explode if you want. Past that, I’d stick to a basic creatine monohydrate powder if you want to use creatine. NO-Explode may be an exciting way to spend some money but there isn’t any real science to suggest it is going to help you towards your muscle building goals.

Final Thoughts

Till then, keep training hard (and smart).