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Monday's first step toward a new change is evaluation.

This may come as a shock, but if you have been working out in a gym, health club, spa or other workout facility, you have been in a laboratory.  There are many types of experiments going on that you have not even noticed.  You have had a wealth of information at your finger tips, you just did not know how to read it.  Here is an example.

There is a guy in your gym that does not do any lower body, guaranteed.  They are everywhere.  My first strength coach called them "light bulbs".   Big on top, chicken legs down below.  It is not that they can't work legs, it is because they won't and most times they are just too lazy.  Why else would you ignore a muscle group that makes up over 60% of your muscle mass.  Now take a good look at this guy the next time you are in the gym.  I will bet that he slightly stoops over with a small but growing hump in his upper back.  This is probably due from so many pushes, his chest has grown but outside the rib cage, but not inside.

Do you want to know what is the best exercise for expanding the chest, and promoting overall championship level chest development?

SQUATS!!  Nothing makes you breathe deeper and expand that rib cage to allow for bigger chest gains.

Now this is just one example of the information at your finger tips.  Find a member of your gym that you want to look like and ask him what they do for a workout.  And if you want to be a "light bulb" by all means go for it.  But I would much rather be up against a man that can bench 315, then a man that can power clean 225.  Do not waste your time and evaluate what you are doing.  If your body has not changed or responded to your current training.  Then now is the time to change.

Train to Failure
Alex