In 1989, I set out to find a method of building large amounts of muscle mass, with little to no additional body fat. I tried many strategies, along with supplements and goofy machinery with, unfortunately, unacceptable results. Most people who pursue physical fitness have an ultimate goal of locating a book or course that teaches EXACTLY what to eat, how to train, when to train, etc -- WRITTEN BY A NATURAL BODYBUILDER! To my dismay, every book I purchased was either incomplete, did not offer support, was written by a steroid user, or had one prime intention -- sell me supplements. You will find that some courses try to pawn supplements within the book itself (which you obviously won't learn until AFTER you buy the product), or imply that supplements are a "helpful aid" to the bodybuilder and, in the upcoming months, send you advertisements on how hundreds of dollars worth of THEIR supplementation magnifies results. This happened to me after purchasing a popular bodybuilding program, and thankfully, I did not fall for the prank.

Be very careful of underhanded advertising techniques used by some bodybuilding programs that have the ultimate intention of making you feel as if supplements are necessary to build muscle, as they are "bating" you with their "program", while secretly preparing you for a lifetime supplement bill. Nevertheless, some of the information I learned along my quest for muscle mass was useful, so I continued researching with an attempt to implement every idea available. I learned the hard way that some bodybuilding philosophies and strategies are useless, and some even dangerous! One harmful strategy resulted in two partially torn triceps (and an 8 month layoff)! Nevertheless, my discovery is worth the dozens of back, triceps, and tendonitis problems I've suffered over my years of training since, quite simply, it led me to success.