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Enlightenment

Training For Cosmetics

12/12/2021

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Question: “Nick, how much ya bench?”
Answer: “Doesn’t matter.”
Justification: Thinking you’re King Kong in the gym as a recreational athlete will earn you a one-way ticket to snap city if you’re not careful. The truth is nobody cares how much you lift, they just care that you look like you do 💪🏿 😍 I’m encouraged to publish this blog for the majority of people that hit the gym for cosmetic purposes but don’t quite appreciate how to achieve that. The strongest guy in the gym is seldom ever the most aesthetic guy. Here’s the playbook for those that just want to bring the fire 🔥 :
  • Gents, avoid maximum lifts that require maximum effort. The risk of injury goes all the way up when you’re eager to impress strangers or ladies in sports bras training by nearby machines. Keep your ego in check before you learn a painful lesson in humility. The goal should always be to stimulate the muscle, not annihilate it so stay out of the red zone.
  • Ladies, if you want to look better and improve your body composition you MUST lift weights. More on this here.
  • Prioritize the little things such as sleep, stress reduction and other lifestyle adjustments. Gym is only a small part of your day, usually an hour. Do more during the remaining 23 hours to support recovery. How you look is directly influenced by your thinking patterns such as overthinking and stress and daily decisions (i.e. matebeto style eating or neglecting sleep trying to be the next Elon Musk).
  • Focus on proper nutrition and understanding your macronutrient and micronutrient requirements. Spending all your money on supplements won’t make you look like the monsters you see on the cover. Supplements help but they’re not game changers no matter what someone tells you. Don’t know what to eat? Let’s talk about it. Want to try supplements but you don’t know what’s useful? We can talk about that too.
  • Be consistent with your training sessions and try to have early morning sessions on an empty stomach to accelerate fat loss. Throw in a cup of black coffee for an added boost. Green tea is a good alternative for caffeine sensitive individuals with a low dose offering of caffeine that’s sufficient to give you a lift and get you going. An additional side effect and benefit is that it can also stimulate bowel movement. 1️⃣ workout 2️⃣ poop 💩 3️⃣ enjoy the rest of your day without anything weighing you down :).
  • Train with and seek mentorship from people that have the physique you want. Stop huddling up with people at the same level as you (beginner). It’s the blind leading the blind. Umozi azagwa mu drainage.

You want to be bull strong? For who? Where are you going to take that strength? You’re old(er) now, stop flexing like a young lad before you hurt yourself. Always lift with a focus on longevity and the real reason why you’re in the gym - to look better.

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5 Comments
Given Majula
12/12/2021 04:57:57 am

Excellent blog - the rest of the 23 hours are extremely important and that’s where the focus needs to be

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MARTHA MAMBWE
12/12/2021 05:50:27 am

So true. Having a proper reason and focus is important to keep you going and achieving the intended goal. A good read, thanks 👍

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Mwenda Teddy Mukubesa
12/13/2021 08:54:13 pm

Yep, training for cosmetic is us. I definitely won't go for any competition at all. The only competition is me looking better than I was yesterday physically.
NICK, I remember well sometime early this year you writing about using supplements. You rightly encouraged most of us to avoid sips, but focus more on the lifting and eating right. The gentleman from Supplement world took the leftist stance from yours then. He actually encouraged and advised that supplements were not harmful, all the do is just to supplement our diet deficiencies. However yours was a rightist approach, with emphasis on eating right.
Now, your stance has dramatically changed leaning more on supplement advocacy. Kindly elucidate more on the new looking physic and the use of supplements.
Kind regards,
Mwenda

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Nicholas Majula link
12/15/2021 11:32:55 am

Hey bwana,

On the supplement issue I don’t discourage supplement use, what I discourage is the prioritization of supplements ahead of eating properly. So, you can’t train, eat fast foods and take a fat burner thinking it’s going to deal with all the excess cheese and calories. Similarly you can’t just take creatine or whey protein, train and sleep 5 hours a day and expect results. It’s a supplement - a mere top up.

My stance is and has been, eat right first and supplement to either plug the gaps from your nutrition or as an aid to get you to your goal ‘a little’ faster. Enlightenment was the objective of my previous blog on supplements as well as helping people manage expectations. This position has not changed. Use them if you need them (deficiency, convenience), understand them (you have taken the time to educate yourself about what you put in your mouth) and you can afford them.

I crowned myself African King and I only give supplements a maximum of 5% of the credit. The balance of 95% is directly attributable to my training, nutrition & lifestyle. My physique is slightly aided but far from built by supplements.

I hope this clears things up for you.

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Mwenda Teddy Mukubesa
12/15/2021 11:39:56 am

Bwana, gat it. Eat right, trainrl right and have enough sleep.
Just supplement to fill the gaps.
Thanks

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