> If you really want to be a bodybuilder the best investment is a notebook This can’t be emphasized enough. Exercise, which you do because it feels good, doesn

> If you really want to be a bodybuilder the best investment is a notebook This can’t be emphasized enough. Exercise, which you do because it feels good, doesn’t really require all that much attention to detail. Training, which you do to systematically improve your performance in some way, very much does. You want to record your intended program and actual movements performed at the very minimum, with notes on perceived effort and areas for improvement like form issues. It’s also important to track recovery, including sleep, since thats when adaptation actually happens. On the dietary side you need to rigorously track your macronutrients, especially dietary protein. Assuming you don’t have kidney disease, you want at least one gram of dietary protein per pound of body weight every day and more won’t hurt. That is a considerable amount of food to eat day in and day out. Eating becomes something of a chore. I believe it’s Dwayne Johnson who is famous for eating several pounds of cod a day. A while back some normalish guy publicly did a Rock diet challenge. Johnson poo-pooed it a bit, but the guy stuck with it and got far better results than anyone expected[1]. My takeaway is that many if not most people with a solid training regimen aren’t getting enough protein to fully realize their potential strength and mass gains. [1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-diet/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rock-dwayne-johnson...