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EricT · 05-01-2008, 11:56 AM

More reasons why bb.com sucks. People telling you to just eat more when you have a gut. Kinda worthless advice.

I think your biggest problem is your hangups. You are so focused on deteils. "what I want". "what I don't want". You need to find a way to bring up your strength base. For a guy like you THAT IS THE KEY. You're focusing on little areas of muscle and esthetics but you've been trying to do strength/mass routines. Your ATTITUDE when approaching these type of things is CRUCIAL. I'm always saying this but I don't think most people really get it. It's not just what you do it's the way you think about it and approach it.

You take the wrong program and approach it with the RIGHT attitide and you will get better results than the guy with the perfect program approached with the WRONG attitude.

In your mind you were convinced that SS was too much. Now maybe it's not the right routine for you. Maybe you need lower frequency. But nothing will work if you convince yourself it's wrong. You will not put that extra effort in. You will not plan properly. You will sabotage you own results to satisfy you convictions.

In the other thread you were saying things like "squatting every workout is too much for the nervous system". Preconceptions. What's too much is too much. The idea that a novice will fry his nervous system is silly but if a novice is hung up on notions like this he will not succeed.

You don't want you mid back to look like a powerlifter? Do you really think at this stage and with these results that is something you need to even consider? This all comes down to expectations and attitude, I'll bet. You have to want it. You do a strength/mass routine you have to want strength/mass. Not just shoulders and abs. What applies to Brad Pitt and Chriss Angel, both of whom have resources and time you don't, doesn't apply to you. Not that you have to work all that hard to get body's like that. Hell, I'd definitely consider that a vacation. I'd just do more fat burning and beach work.

Anuj said you didn't program properly. It could be that you didn't run the program right. That you didn't learn the lifts. Etc. It could be you need less frequency but the fact is you are consistenly coming in with preconceived notions and all sorts of unrealistic limitations and expecting people to change their advice to suit you attitude instead of you changing your attitude to accept the ideas.