Natural Lifter's Bible
The Ultimate Guide to Achieve Your Natural Muscle Building Potential
Pantelis Tsoumanis
Copyright 2020 Pantelis Tsoumanis
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Disclaimer
The information contained in this book is not meant to replace any specific advice you may have been given by a doctor or therapist.
The tips and advice given in NATURAL LIFTERS BIBLE are meant for healthy adults only. Always consult your physician before beginning any exercise program.
All exercise involves some inherent risk. I advise you to take full responsibility for your actions and always train within your limits. The author is NOT responsible for any injuries that can occur during your training.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book is dedicated to my awesome wife, Marina. We face together the good and bad things in life. She supported and motivated me, as no one else, to write this book. Its also dedicated to my wonderful son; Angelos. He is the most precious person I have in my life. Also, I would like to thank my parents, George and Giota and my brother Andronikos. They always have been there when I needed them. Andronikos tirelessly alongside supported and helped me to complete this book. Furthermore, big thanks to my aunt, Thomai, who helped me a lot with the graphs/language on this writing. I dont want to forget my wonderful friends who have always been there when life gets hard.
Also, there have been many strength and nutritional resources that I have learned a lot from: Casey Butt, Ian King, Randall Strossen, Mark Rippetoe, John Christy, Johnny Pain, Stuart Mcrobert, Brooks Kubik, Arthur Jones, Chris Beardsley, Bill Starr, Louie Simmons, John McCallum, Ken Leistner, Vladimir Zatsiorsky, Stuart Phillips, Brad Pilon, Paul Chek, Weston Price, along with countless others whose research and books I have read and learned from. Thanks to them I learned a lot and along with my own experience, concluded my own philosophy about strength training and nutrition.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Thank you for buying NATURAL LIFTERS BIBLE. This book covers everything that you need to know about lifting. It has been written simply so everyone is able to understand.
First of all, I am not in an armchair introducing theories as many authors of books out there. Weight training is not only science. It is also an art and an experience too.
I have a degree in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, from University of Thessaly (Greece). Also, I train myself and others in my gym in my garage. All that you will read in this book comes from a combination of science and personal experiences from training with other people.
This book is for anyone who loves weight training and wants to build strength and muscles naturally. Its not for people who use steroids or illegal supplements. I write about healthy training approaches for natural lifters.
When you read this book, you will be able to design your own training programs. You will find out about your own nutritional needs, and youll recognize the truths about natural lifting.
I wrote this book because I love strength training, but most importantly because there is a lot of misinformation about the best way to naturally lift.
With this book in your hands, you dont need to fall for false information about training. After you read this, you will know everything you need to know about the truth behind natural, and healthy lifting and can apply the information you learn to your weight training journey.
Have a happy reading!
Happy lifting without confusion!
Pantelis Tsoumanis
CHAPTER 1: REALITY ABOUT THE FITNESS WORLD
FITNESS INDUSTRY AND STEROIDS
The Fitness industry is a huge lie. It has been built around people who use steroids and other substances. Most people , who make money from videos on the internet, are not getting their results naturally.
The only thing that they want to gain from you is money. They sell supplements and/or training programs and they claim that with their supplements and training programs, you can achieve a physique similar to them. This is not the case.
But the reality is that those bodies have been made from usage of anabolic hormones and not from a magic training program and protein shakes. They dont care about you and your targets in the gym.
The problem is not only with the information on the internet but with fitness magazines too. They put a steroid user in the front page and as a result many people expect to look like him. In reality, not only you wont be like him but you will often receive some wrong training advice as steroid users give to natural athletes.
Something that can work for a steroid user, will not work for a natural lifter. The training approach between the two should be very different.
I put my money on fire that 90% of people who are in the fitness industry who get their money either from online sites or magazines are on steroids.
One thing to note here is that I dont have anything against steroid users. I dont care what they do and what they use. But I care a lot about people who are new to lifting and fall into the trap of the industry. They must know the truth behind this multi-billion business.
Moreover, the biggest problem is not the steroid users who admit it, but some bastard guys who use steroids and claim that they have achieved these bodies naturally. They create false expectations for young men and as a result, young guys who are new to weightlifting, expect bodies which are not attainable naturally. The end result will be disappointment or steroid use.
The bottom line is that you must take with a grain of salt whatever you read on the internet and fitness magazines. I am not saying that everything you read on the web is garbage but most of the time, it is for marketing purposes.
PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS PROBLEM
One of the biggest traps that a beginner trainee can fall into is with internet usage. On the internet, everything is overanalyzed.
There are many different opinions about training and nutrition issues. A beginner trainee will lose his mind with such a large amount of information. And the worst is that at the end of his research he will not get anywhere. Its common that many people that go to the gym read more about training but end up training less. They overanalyze everything and as a result, they could kill their progression at the gym.
Some people search for the best training exercises, and others search for a magic training program that will transform them into a new Arnold Schwarzenegger. Others search for the best supplement on the market, etc.
For example, X guru says that deadlifts are the best exercise for the back. No! The Y guru says: pull ups are. A day later V guru might say that barbell rows are the best exercise for the back.
Or X guru claims that you must do an incline bench for upper chest development but Y guru has the opinion that a flat bench works the whole chest. And as a result our beginner researcher will end up with a headache and confusion about his training.
There are many over-analysis problems in the fitness community, and there is paralysis by analysis problems as well.
For example, you can find two contradicting claims on the same web page such as: why you must do isolation arm exercises and simultaneously compound movements work arms, dont train them directly. You end up wondering, What the fuck should I do here?
With this book in your hands, you will save your life from paralysis by tackling online problems. When you are done reading, there will be no need to search online for any training issue.