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Park finished warming up and started on his legs. All he did was leg and back stuff.”

“So what?”

“I thought he trained hard.”

“He does.”

“Legs and back? I don't think they're appropriate in a program that focuses on the pump, but if you must, consider a sumo stance for low back safety and leg-emphasis.

McCallum wasn't the first to recommend alternating squats with pullovers and while I'm not convinced the combination adds anything extra-special to growth, it just plain feels good.

You’ll get good results from every exercise if you concentrate the same way on them.

We’ve talked about auto-suggestion. Pressing is still the best all-around shoulder exercise.

You'll be using the split system of training. Keep your workouts short if you’re a beginner or trying to gain weight. This is the type of training that builds bodies like Grimek and Pearl.

I had a lesson in the value of leg and back work over twenty years ago.

You'll probably find you can't make the full five sets of three at first. We’ll get into long programs eventually, but by then you’ll be big and you’ll be ready for them.

Training is a progressive thing. I saw Park bench press around 500 in his street clothes. Work at it.

Finish off the workout with one set of twenty-five sit-ups.

He wasn’t. He loaded on weight till the bar bent slightly and did squats like his life depended on them. Two quarts a day is about the minimum for really big gains.

A lot of beginners are staggered when they see how much food a big lifter stows away. “That took him an hour and four minutes. This new program will be aimed at developing great strength as a foundation for further bulk development.

So did my strength. Use a reasonable style when you're curling. Use it as a stimulus for each workout.

You see a lot of self-improvement courses advertised in the back of pulp magazines.