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- You Had Ignorance Debt
You don’t know what you don’t know you know.
Get it?
Imagine you open up a bank account and get a $5,000 overdraft.
You ask someone you trust what this is and they explain it as free money as a benefit of the bank.
Awesome! You start buying this and that and don’t pay it back…
What was the problem there?
You did everything to correct based on your knowledge.
Who wouldn’t use money they felt had no consequences?
This is exactly what happens with building muscle.
This is ignorance.
Ignorance is anything that is wrong/stupid/in poor taste, because of a lack of knowledge.
It’s hard to work out who’s to blame when ignorance is involved.
Ignorance with the gym is not knowing that mechanical tension, and motor unit recruitment cause growth.
It means you don’t know what causes growth and end up walking in circles getting in debt.
Every piece of bad knowledge you learn is your debt.
One thing I do think is quite weird is that people ignore gym ignorance and act like other irrelevant types of ignorance is COMPLETELY WRONG.
Sleep ignorance. Not allowed.
Diet ignorance. Not allowed.
Recovery ignorance. Not allowed.
Everyone is a genius and completely locked in on these topics, they learn everything possible.
Training???
Who cares. It’s about the others. Don’t be a nerd.
What.
That’s completely ridiculous considering. Anyone who knows anything about muscle growth knows sleep, diet, and recovery have a baseline you reach. Anything past that point is negligible benefits.
Yet that’s what people are going to focus over?
mhm, yeah, okay.
The real gains when lifting begin when this ignorance is gone.
The second you realise “okay yeah maybe I need to know stuff about training.”
Learning about what causes growth is how you get results
Ignoring bad results by thinking you’re doing it right is ignorance
The second ignorance is gone, you can make results
An easy thing to have this in your face moment is to expose the ignorance with important metrics.
What’s happening to your weight?
What’s happening to you visually?
What are your measurements?
How’s your nutrition coming along?
Are you progressive overloading?
If you track everything and look at it, you’ll learn, and do things right.
If you experiment with a certain training technique/something I teach you, the progressive overload will tell you if it’s working.
Remember that in the gym the thing that matters most is progressive overload.
Getting fat will get in the way of that, so keep it normal.
Keep reading about training from me, keep learning.
Bring your friends who you work out with into the fold and send them this newsletter, or they’ll be making you do triple dropsets 😬
Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher
P.S. When you’re tracking your performance if you’re trying something new, be weary of other things going on. Are you suddenly more driven in your workouts? Is there less stress/fatigue present, are you eating better? All of this will skew your results and make give you a false positive (or negative if things are going bad).
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