Deciding on a Plan: 

1)  If you follow the individual training of each group of muscles, you would spend your entire life without getting what you want accomplished. 

Mainly because there are too many muscles, and endless ways of training them. If you know how to train the biceps in a five of six different ways, each in a handful of sets, each set in a handful of repetitions, how many years would it take you to get your biceps the way you want them to be?

2)  If you follow the one-day per body-part training, how do you know what proportions are you getting? You would need many specialists to analyze your proportions, your balance, speed, flexibility, and coordination. That is untenable proposition.

3) If you have no life to enjoy other than bumping iron an injury would be inevitable, because dealing with your body is a science that you cannot master just by reading few magazines and talking to other fellows. If you frequent the same magazines over and over you make the same mistakes over and over. It is inevitable that you balance your life on all human levels. You lift with your soul before your body get used to performing..

4) If you think that weightlifting can get you to Hollywood, you better make an alternative plan. If you do not, the alternative will be bitter. The few who made it were helped by existing circumstances that might not exist in your case. If you get there, what are you going to do with your 24 hour day? A huge muscular body with improper strength is hard to move around. You only have one heart and two knees. Neither the heart nor the knees can exceed a certain level of energy consumption in one person’s life.  

Lean and mean is better than big and mean.

Four Schemes: 

Weightlifting has emerged into four or so schemes of training. Choosing a particular scheme to fit your goals will impact your future health and quality of life. Medicine and science have been minimally utilized, if at all, in delineating the different schemes. As expected, medicine and science have only progressed in areas where human suffering demands public attention. But in the preventive or long term planning of strength building athletes have set their own experiments and reached their own conclusions. When competition gains public support, financial resources become available for institutionalizing such fortunate sport. Weightlifting was not that fortunate as boxing, wrestling, or other individual sports.

A wise choice is approach your plan very open mindedly.  The four styles of weightlifting are not defined by divine doctrine.  Thus I will suggest to you to choose them all. How can we reconcile such vast scope of contradicting ideas of training? That is what this web site is all about.  It is about integration of resistance training is an efficient way of minimizing long term deformation that bodybuilders suffer from, crippling injuries that powerlifters incur, short longevity that weightlifter complacently accept, and unsatisfactory accomplishments that general weight training leads to.