You know, back when I didn't know anything about lifting, I did the movement ADD thing... It kept me from being a super-fat slob, but I regret not starting my current situation sooner. I think the gym ADD - you know, 3 sets of 10 of anything within reach - is a phase a lot of us have to go through. Now I'm feeling exotic if I do four movements over the 90 minutes I'm at the gym. Last one was pendlay rows, overhead presses, db rows, and hammer curls... made me feel like a busy bee, since I almost never leave the squat rack anymore.
When I was younger, I would have done something like 1/2 mile run, lat pull-downs, db bench, db rows, db shoulder press, preacher curls, db tricep extension, db flys, db shrugs, crunches, leg raises, 1/2 mile run. All at low weights and low volume. It was better than sitting on the couch while eating ice cream and I wasn't as weak as the guys that did, but all those years where my body never actually improved, and I was using the same weight year-after-year seem so completely wasted. Had I started then what I do now, I might be a competitive strength athlete by now.
Part of that is figuring out your goals, ideals, and even role models are... we got into that a while back with Kolton. I figured out which one of the following I want to look like. One is a weak, scrawny douchebag that touts P90X. The other one is the Gatekeeper of Olympus. I hope you can figure out who is who.
