Bodybuilding, Side Effects Are The Goal

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Let’s be sincere. Competitive bodybuilding is a very weird sport. After more than 20 years training with weights and coaching many competitors I still see the same faces of incredulity when I state that side effects are the goal in bodybuilding.
My first trainer used to say that bodybuilding is a sport focused on side effects instead of usual physical qualities. The funny thing is that his definition of this sport is completely right if you comprehend his point of view. Any other sport training try to obtain physical or technical qualities. For example, to improve your gymnastics performance you must develop better flexibility, strength, balance, etc… If a gymnast trains properly he will improve his performance and probably, as a side effect, he’ll build more muscle mass. His training was not designed to create muscular mass as the main goal, but he achieved it as a side effect.

Anyone can realize the same pattern among other sports. Training coaches create different workout plans to improve physical or sport-specific technical goals. However bodybuilding is absolutely different. We can improve our strength, our flexibility, etc… but they are only the required methods and tools to build more muscular mass. They are not the final goals, only instruments to effectively achieve the real objective of a bodybuilding training program; The Radical and Absolute Transformation Of The Human Body.

This peculiarity of bodybuilding as sport, was the main reason why my old coach thought that this was a sport focused on side effects. The concept, by itself, is not pejorative because side effects can be positive or negative. This website will reveal many techniques that have been designed to promote as much positive side effects as possible.

LESSON: Don’t be confused about your goals. Your goal is the total transformation of your body.