Skip La Cour’s BodyBlog

By Skip La Cour
Six-Time National Champion
Success Coach

Many Bodybuilders Don’t Take the Scheduled  Breaks Off From Weight Training That They Must Have to Grow—and Mistakenly  Believe They Are Helping the Muscle-Building Process.

Some  bodybuilders want to train for months on end without taking an extended weeklong  break from lifting weights. Again, I certainly appreciate their enthusiasm to  train. Training intensity, which is the cornerstone to productivity in the gym,  inevitably drops when you go on marathon runs without a break—even if you don’t  realize it.

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You absolutely  must schedule enough time out of the gym so your body can fully recover. You  will need to take a week off from training every eight to ten weeks. Your  muscles grow when they are recuperating out of the gym. This time out of the gym  and off of training will allow your body to rest and recuperate adequately. When  you return to the gym after these breaks, you’ll be fortified with renewed  physical intensity and mental energy.

You must understand that the  seemingly step backwards you experience when you return after taking a week off  will go away soon enough. I understand how that uncoordinated feeling breaks  your momentum. You don’t perform as well the first week back in the gym. You  aren’t always as strong. You must fight through this discomfort. You’ll be back  up to speed during your second week back—and your body will respond better to  training in the weeks ahead. Trust me. Enjoy your weeklong break. If you’ve  trained hard, effectively and efficiently, you deserve the break.

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Resources That WILL  Take Your Efforts to the Next Level
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Start Your Bodybuilding and Training MASTERY JOURNEY  Now!

Take control of your bodybuilding and training destiny! Start MASTERING  this area of your life and order my Complete DVD and Book Library Special  TODAY! I have bundled all of this POWERFUL information at a DISCOUNTED package  price. I will even ship this valuable INVESTMENT in yourself absolutely FREE.

I’ve written ten (10) books and have produced seven (7) DVDs that  explain every facet of bodybuilding. Almost 1,900 pages are written and over 20  hours of video footage created of pure INSTRUCTION and PASSION!

My  almost 20 years of COMMITMENT have helped men JUST LIKE YOU take their bodies to  the NEXT LEVEL in 52 COUNTRIES AROUND THE PLANET.

Order  Complete DVD and Book Library Special NOW

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Learn what  it takes to finally WIN at your bodybuilding and training efforts from a proven  CHAMPION. Step-by-step, you’ll MASTER your weight training, cardiovascular  training, eating, mental, and lifestyle strategies with Skip La Cour’s. .  .“The Mindset and Actions of a Champion” Bodybuilding and Training  Audio Seminar Course

Get the Files Emailed to You NOW and Begin Your Road to Bodybuilding and  Training MASTERY TODAY!

Hello Men!

It’s  Skip La Cour.

I  just wrapped up “The Mindset and Actions of a Champion”  Bodybuilding and Training Seminars series–and it was  AWESOME.

I’m  making the mp3 sound files and pdf file  workbook available to you for the same great price as if you stepped up  at the beginning!

I delivered over 13 hours and 30 minutes!

Your investment is only $99.97

Get the files emailed to you NOW and begin your road to bodybuilding and  training MASTERY TODAY!

Click  HERE to order.

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“Learn the  ‘Real Stuff’ a Champion MUST know but more importantly the ‘Real Stuff’ that  makes a Champion, a Champion! You won’t find this knowledge in a Bodybuilding  Magazine. What Skip teaches in ‘The Mindset and Actions of a Champion’ goes  beyond sets and reps, nutrition, and supplements. Skip teaches what really  matters if your desire is to become a Champion. Learn from a proven Champion and  save yourself lots of wasted energy, frustration, and time. And, the best thing  is what you learn can make you a Champion in all aspects of your  life!”

Tom Anthony  Roehl
Greenfield, WI

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“The Mindset and Actions of a Champion” Bodybuilding and Training  Seminar Outline

The Mindset of Champion
Session One (2  hours and 29 minutes)

Learn twenty-seven (27) of the most-important  SPECIFIC thoughts and actions of those men who WIN in their bodybuilding and  training efforts. When you think like a CHAMPION and do what he does, you will  finally start WINNING in your bodybuilding and training efforts at the level you  REALLY want.

Train Like A Champion
Session Two (2  hours and 26 minutes)

Learn thirty-two (32) SPECIFIC reasons why a  CHAMPION has the incredible ability to make ANY training strategy produce  outstanding results. Adopt this mindset in the gym and start creating the body  you really want.

Eat Like A Champion
Session Three (2  hours and 12 minutes)

Learn twenty-one (21) SPECIFIC reasons why a  CHAMPION can make ANY nutritional program produce impressive results. Adopt this  mental approach toward your eating habits and start building rock-hard muscle  and shedding lingering body fat in a fraction of the time it is taking you  now.

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“I feel that,  no matter where someone is in their journey, they can benefit from ‘The Mindset  and Actions of a Champion.’ It’s fortified with lots of great information from a  widely-known, accomplished World Class athlete and coach. I believe the strength  of this program comes from the centralized purpose of simply helping others  succeed. Each stage is structured, well-rounded, sincere, and provides fuel for  the fire to find the focus needed and keep the momentum going. Now that I have  successfully completed all the sessions, I’ll review them to help me stay inside  the guardrails as I work towards my goals. Sometimes in life when emotions run  high, it helps to have the voice and insight of Skip La Cour to think logically  about dieting, workouts, and stay on the path to success.”

Hank “The  Texas Tank” Uhlaender
Austin, TX

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The Structured Thoughts, Actions, and Lifestyle  of a Champion
Session Four (1 hour and 36 minutes)

Learn fifty-two (52) SPECIFIC ways a CHAMPION  structures his day and gets himself to follow through with what he knows he  needs to do to WIN. Adopt Champion-like structure to your bodybuilding and  training lifestyle and you’ll start winning too.

Goal-Setting Workshop -  Champion-Style
Session Five (2 hours and 29 minutes)

A Champion wins at an incredible level because of  his outrageous standards, tremendously high expectations, and lofty goals. With  what you’ve learned during the previous four Seminar sessions, you will NOW be  ready to start going for what you REALLY want out of your bodybuilding and  training efforts-instead of only what you’ve been settling for in the past. This  goal-setting session will get you to finally think BIG, create an ambitious  “target,” and enthusiastically shoot toward it.

Successfully Integrating the Thoughts and  Actions of a Champion Into Your Lifestyle
Session Six (1 hour and 41  minutes)

Learn seventy-seven (77) of the most-effective,  SPECIFIC strategies a CHAMPION executes for CONTINUAL physical, mental, and  emotional growth. When you execute these champion-like strategies, you will  enjoy CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT in your body’s appearance, your training intensity  and productivity, your ability to follow through with good eating habits, and  with your mental focus.

BONUS: Questions and Answers  Session
(51 minutes)

Your investment is only $99.97

Get the files emailed to you NOW and begin your road to bodybuilding and  training MASTERY TODAY!

Click  HERE to order.

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“’The Mindset  and Actions of a Champion’ is another example of your outstanding service and  products! I will listen to the program again and again. Thank you, Skip, for  your dedication and service to bodybuilding, fitness and the mental side of this  awesome sport!”

Paul  Henning
Tallahassee, FL

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Copyright 2009. Skip  La Cour Consulting. All Rights Reserved.

I’ll Coach You to the Next Level and Turn You Into a  “Mass Machine” with This Free 30-Minute mp3 Sound File!

Hello  Men.

It’s Skip La Cour.

If you’ve read my articles or have  listened to my podcasts and talk radio shows, then you know that I constantly  stress this concept . . .

Your MIND is your most powerful training  tool!

“Mass Machine” many years  ago because of my extremely disciplined and effective approach to bodybuilding  and training.

I am going to share with you my SECRET that helped  me develop the tremendous ability to focus and execute—and I am going to get you  excited about taking a 30-Day CHALLENGE that will totally TRANSFORM the  way you attack your training, eating, and thinking habits FOREVER!

I was  able to HARNESS the tremendous power of my brain and win six national  bodybuilding championships because:

1. I was able to identify, study,  and focus on ONLY WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW with my training, eating, and mental  habits—and AVOID the useless, misguided, and confusing information.

2.  Then, I constantly “programmed” my brain on both a conscious and subconscious  level to stay completely FOCUSED on what I needed to do to get the job done!

Your IDENTITY is Crucial to Your  Success!

Now, it’s time for YOU to turn into a Mass Machine  the very same way that I did—and take your bodybuilding and training efforts  THROUGH THE ROOF!

“Why Mass Machine?” you might be asking  yourself right now.

Your identity; how you see yourself; how you “label”  yourself; is the most POWERFUL force you have available to you to reach your  bodybuilding and training goals.

Your identity gets you through the  challenging times—and it forces you step up, ask for more out of yourself, and  kick things to an even HIGHER level when times are going well.

MASS: Because you build dense, rock-hard muscle and  lose body fat that creates QUALITY MASS onto your physique.

and . . .

MACHINE: Because you work toward your  bodybuilding and training goals with “machine-like” precision, focus, and  perfect execution of the key daily disciplines needed to succeed.

Think  about it for a moment:

What would a person with the empowering identity  like a Mass Machine do next when he’s laying in bed in the morning or sitting on  the couch after work when he feels too tired to get his butt up and go to the  gym?

Or, when a friend puts some mouth-watering pizza in front of his  face and his next schedule “cheat day” is still a couple of days away?

What about when he has to decide whether he should use the 50-pound  dumbbells or the 45-pound dumbbells during the next set?

Or, if he’s  going to do his scheduled cardiovascular session like he knows he should—or blow  it off?

When you become a Mass Machine, there’s absolutely  no question that you are going to jump up and get to the gym no matter how tired  you feel; pass on the pizza and wait until you’ve earned it; grab the  50-pounders with courage and confidence; and do your cardiovascular training  anyway!

That’s the powerful effect your identity has on your ACTIONS.

Do you need some of more of that POWER?

It sounds awesome,  doesn’t it?

Are you sick and tired of letting yourself down? Are you  starting to get disgusted with all the stupid excuses you are making when you  don’t do what you already know you should do?

Well, believe it or not,  that power is ALREADY inside of you—and I desperately want you to start drawing  upon it NOW!

The MM120 (Mass Machine 120)

I’ve created this 30-minute mp3 sound file with over 120  POWER STATEMENTS that pound into your brain EXACTLY what you need to focus  on and execute to create the physique that you really want.

I’m “in your  ear” with the most effective and efficient raining, nutrition, and motivational  strategies.

It’s a COMPLETE OVERVIEW of everything that I’ve been  teaching you for years efficiently compacted into this 30-minute personal  coaching session!

Here are just a few examples of what you will hear me  say as I COACH you to the next level:

• “You know that training  intensity is giving 100 percent of your mind, body, and soul to every  repetition, every set, every exercise, during every workout.”

• “You get  yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and psychologically ready for every  single set you perform in the gym.”

• “You always expect the best from  your efforts—and don’t get discouraged if you don’t see the results you want as  soon as you want. You are patient. You are persistent. You are a MASS MACHINE!”

• “You create a series of daily action steps—Daily Disciplines—that you  can execute every day to get you closer to the body you ultimately want.”

• “You let the power of MOMENTUM work for you—and do NOT keep switching  from one plan to another without giving each one the time and effort they need  to produce results.”

Again, there are over 120 statements  just like these that are crammed into this coaching session!

Here’s the MM120 (Mass Machine 120) Challenge:

Download this file to your IPod (or mp3 player).

Listen to the 30-minute recording every day during your 5-day structured  week for the next 30 days. Ideally, you want to listen to this recording while  you are working out in the gym.

Only listen to these MM120 five  days during the week. There’s no sense in getting burned out doing too much. 30  minutes just five days a week will be plenty of “exercise and practice” to get  these statements into your subconscious thought process and automatically  integrate them into your bodybuilding ad training lifestyle without a lot of  effort.

If you can’t listen to them while you are working out, then  download this mp3 file to your home computer and invest the time listening to  them first thing in the morning.

Even if you get “bored” with this  process, promise yourself to stick with it for 30 days. Many times, we are  getting positive results in our lives and we have no idea where to credit the  cause of those positive results. These MM120 statements will be just one  of those instances.

Remember that when things are going well for you in  your bodybuilding and training lifestyle—and you don’t feel like listening to  the sound file anymore.

Stick with it—and turn yourself into a Mass  Machine!

Right click HERE  to download the MM120 mp3 file and save it to a predetermined folder on your  computer.

Train Hard—and Think BIG!

Skip La Cour
Six-Time National Champion Bodybuilder
Success Coach

P. S. I  want your feedback within 30 days of taking on this MM120 Challenge.

CLICK  HERE to return to the www.SkipLaCour.com  web site.

Copyright 2009 Skip La Cour Consulting. All Rights  Reserved.

By Skip La Cour
Six-Time National Bodybuilding Champion
Success Coach
www.skiplacour.com

Many Bodybuilders Do Not  Document Their Progress in the Gym and Lose an Awesome Mental Edge

Many bodybuilders make blind “guesses” at how productive they should be  during each workout. They don’t use their already established patterns to set  standards and strive to take them up a few notches.

Documenting your  training performance during every workout is an effective strategy that will  produce significant results over time. Your mind is your most valuable training  tool by far. Documenting what you do helps you harness the tremendous power of  your mind. Assessing what you do in the gym helps you set and achieve higher  goals. Seeing what you’ve done before you begin each set forces you to strive  for more.

You must always strive for improvement in the gym.  Progressive, incremental improvements that are accomplished over time will make  your bodybuilding and training efforts a more productive and enjoyable  experience in the long run.

Take Action and Do This NOW!

Writing down what you’ve done in the gym isn’t just an exercise in  record keeping. You want to take a look at you past performance before you begin  each set. That way, you’ll know exactly what you need to do make incremental  improvements. From week to week, you won’t have to guess how much weight you  lifted and how many repetitions you were able to perform during a certain  exercise. You’ll be able to start each new workout at a higher level.

Evaluate the overall performance of each workout immediately afterward  too. Every workout can set the stage to make your next one even better. While  it’s still fresh in your mind, take one or two minutes to assess your training  performance. You want to reinforce what you’ve done well so you’ll repeat those  things you’ve singled out—and curtail what didn’t go well before you’ve  established bad habits.

We all have different ideas of what makes a  workout good, bad, or somewhere in between. Well? How did you do? Whatever you  have identified is most important to you when training, evaluate how close you  actually came to accomplishing your objectives. Make a point to make this  assessment before you take even one step outside of the gym.

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Resources That WILL  Take Your Efforts to the Next Level
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Start Your Bodybuilding and Training MASTERY JOURNEY  Now!<strong />

Take control of your bodybuilding and training destiny! Start MASTERING  this area of your life and order my Complete DVD and Book Library Special  TODAY! I have bundled all of this POWERFUL information at a DISCOUNTED package  price. I will even ship this valuable INVESTMENT in yourself absolutely FREE.

I’ve written ten (10) books and have produced seven (7) DVDs that  explain every facet of bodybuilding. Almost 1,900 pages are written and over 20  hours of video footage created of pure INSTRUCTION and PASSION!

My  almost 20 years of COMMITMENT have helped men JUST LIKE YOU take their bodies to  the NEXT LEVEL in 52 COUNTRIES AROUND THE PLANET.

Order  Complete DVD and Book Library Special NOW

Many  Bodybuilders Don’t Come to the Gym with a Definitive Workout Plan

Can you believe that some bodybuilders show up to the gym without a  well-defined game plan? They put too much faith in their instincts to guide them  through their training sessions. This is a big, stupid mistake.

There’s  a saying that goes “When you fail to plan—you plan to fail.” You should never  take even one step into the gym without knowing exactly what you are going to do  during that day’s workout. Resist the temptation to be guided by your feelings  or emotions on a particular training day. As you may already realize, your  feelings about anything can change every 10 minutes. Come into the gym with a  plan-of-attack and be ready to execute that plan the best you can once it’s  established.

Take Action and Do This NOW!

Set simple  training goals before every workout. Creating a short list of “training  disciplines” can be extremely helpful in your pursuit of big muscle gains. This  list can include a few simple tasks that you’ll focus on during your workouts  even when you’re not as motivated as you’d like to be.

Simply getting to  the gym on time, completing every one of the exercises and sets that you planned  to do when you stepped into the gym, making sure you really focus on the  targeted muscle group during every repetition, and completing your training  session in an hour are just a few examples of what you can include on your list  of simple training goals. You don’t need to be extremely detailed right off the  bat, but create some structure to your workout so you’ll know that you are  progressing. As you track your goals, you will increase your level of focus and  successfully take your efforts to the next level.

Be ready for every  single set you perform in the gym. Know what you want to achieve before your  hands even touch “metal.” You should always know the minimum number of  repetitions you want to do before your hands even touch a barbell, dumbbell, or  training machine apparatus. You should also know the minimum number of calories  you want to burn and the minimum distance you want to travel before your feet  touch the bike pedals or machine floor mat when doing cardiovascular training.  Never let your body dictate what you can do when you can use your powerful mind  to bolster its performance. Unless, of course, your body wants to do a little  better than the specific goals you’ve set.

Consider taking this training  strategy even a little further. Invest a little time to think about your next  workout before you leave the gym. There’s no need to get really involved in this  particular step but do take the time to think about your next workout. You’ll  set your mental “wheels in motion” with a simple preview of what’s to come  during your next training session. Trust me. You’ll be astonished with how  effectively your subconscious brain will prepare you for your next productive  workout over the next day or so—with very little effort on your part. You’ll  discover that this tip is a great investment of the last 30 to 60 seconds you  spend in the gym.

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Resources That WILL Take Your Efforts to the Next Level
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Start Your Bodybuilding and Training MASTERY JOURNEY  Now!
Take control of your bodybuilding and training destiny! Start MASTERING  this area of your life and order my Complete DVD and Book Library Special  TODAY! I have bundled all of this POWERFUL information at a DISCOUNTED package  price. I will even ship this valuable INVESTMENT in yourself absolutely FREE.

I’ve written ten (10) books and have produced seven (7) DVDs that  explain every facet of bodybuilding. Almost 1,900 pages are written and over 20  hours of video footage created of pure INSTRUCTION and PASSION!

My  almost 20 years of COMMITMENT have helped men JUST LIKE YOU take their bodies to  the NEXT LEVEL in 52 COUNTRIES AROUND THE PLANET.

Order Complete DVD and Book Library Special NOW

Many Bodybuilders’ Workouts Are Way Too Long—and Their Intensity  Plummets

Many bodybuilders mistakenly believe that working out longer  and doing more exercises and sets makes them better than the average person.  They misguidedly see themselves as some type of training warrior who is going  above and beyond the call of duty in order to achieve their ambitious goals.  They incorrectly see themselves as working much harder than the average person  because they are willing to put more time in the gym.

More isn’t  better—not when it comes to bodybuilding and training. Don’t fool yourself and  confuse time spent in the gym or volume of work with progress. This is one of  the toughest things for many people training in the gym to understand.

You’ll move from exercise to exercise smoothly and efficiently when you  establish a time frame that you are committed to work within. It will be easier  to focus on the matter-at-hand when you only have so much time to do so. Make a  game out of meeting the time goal that you’ve established. This is just one more  simple way to set the stage for a more productive training session.

Your  weight training sessions should last no longer than one hour. And you know what?  I’m being extremely liberal with that amount of time. I really believe you can  be extremely effective in far less time. But, because I know it’s such a  challenge for most of us to shorten our workouts and still feel confident that  we are doing enough to meet our bodybuilding goals, I’ll make the cutoff point  one hour.

Regardless of how you try to rationalize it, longer training  sessions are NOT more productive. You must force yourself to become just as  effective in a shorter period of time by becoming more efficient.

To  borrow a phrase I learned from former Mr. Olympia Lee Haney, you want to  “stimulate” the muscles when you are in the gym and not “annihilate” them.  Stimulating the muscles can be done quite effectively in one hour or less. It’s  a fact that the more time you spend in the gym, the more your concentration and  focus will wane. The more your mental focus and concentration diminish the less  effective you will become physically.

Let me explain why doing four sets  of every exercise is not an efficient way to train. Let’s just say you plan on  doing four sets of a particular exercise. During each set of that exercise, your  goal is to get at least eight repetitions.

On the first set, you get  eight reps—exactly as you had planned. While performing the second set, you will  usually get all eight reps again. During the third set, you tend to squeak out  all eight reps as well. Getting all of those reps during the third set may have  been a bit more challenging than the first two sets. But, despite the  difficulty, you were mentally tough and managed to meet your rep range goal. If  you do happen to get any more than eight reps during any of those first three  sets, you more than likely won’t get many more than one or two in addition to  the eight.

This is how I would describe my training performance in the  past. No matter what exercise I was doing or which body part I was training, it  always seemed to work out that way. Hasn’t this been true in your case as well?

But isn’t it strange that, when you know you only have one set remaining  of a particular exercise, your mindset changes? You can mysteriously muster up  incredible strength and produce three, four, or even five more reps for an  amazing total of 13! All of a sudden, you really became a training warrior.  You’ve instantly transformed into a determined, machine-like madman who would  make Dorian Yates (my role model for training intensity) envious!

If you  think about it, don’t you believe your performance should have turned out just  the opposite? Let me explain what I mean:

If you were really giving your  all like you thought you were during the first three sets, there shouldn’t be  nearly as much energy and power left to meet—much less exceed—that goal of eight  reps during the last set. There simply shouldn’t be that much physical strength  left inside of you by that time.

If you were truly training with the  utmost intensity you probably should have gotten about 12 repetitions during the  first set; somewhere around 10 reps during the second one; eight or nine during  the third one; and maybe only about six during the fourth one.

Take  Action and Do This NOW!

I urge you to eliminate less-than-intense  sets—and start training like a training warrior would during every set—during  the entire workout!

You must ignite a sense of urgency in order to train  with the highest level of intensity. Planning to do only one, two, and sometimes  three sets creates that sense of urgency you need.

Using fewer sets,  aiming for fewer reps during those sets, training only one body part per  training session, and training each body part less frequently will make you  spend less time in the gym. It will be much easier to keep your focus,  concentration, and intensity level high when you are required to do so for  shorter periods of time. When you adopt these “less is more” strategies, your  workouts should take no longer than 60 minutes.

The cornerstone to any  effective training strategy is the amount of intensity that’s put into it.  Whatever training routine or philosophy you decide to use, you must train with  intensity. Without enough intensity, your training efforts will produce results  that are mediocre at best.

Intensity in training can be described as  giving 100 percent of your mind, body, and soul to every repetition, every set,  every exercise, and every workout. Intensity means pounding the weights so hard  that every set throughout your entire workout ends in absolute failure. In other  words, you have absolutely nothing left in reserve when the set is completed.  Intensity is just as much a mental feat as it is a physical one.

When  you train with this type of passion, zeal, and enthusiasm, constant improvement  in your physique is inevitable. If you train with intensity, there’s no question  that you’ll be more productive in your bodybuilding efforts than those people  who do not. The higher your training intensity level becomes, the better you’ll  be at initiating the muscle-building process.

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Resources That WILL  Take Your Efforts to the Next Level
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Start Your Bodybuilding and Training MASTERY JOURNEY  Now!
Take control of your bodybuilding and training destiny! Start MASTERING  this area of your life and order my Complete DVD and Book Library Special  TODAY! I have bundled all of this POWERFUL information at a DISCOUNTED package  price. I will even ship this valuable INVESTMENT in yourself absolutely FREE.

I’ve written ten (10) books and have produced seven (7) DVDs that  explain every facet of bodybuilding. Almost 1,900 pages are written and over 20  hours of video footage created of pure INSTRUCTION and PASSION!

My  almost 20 years of COMMITMENT have helped men JUST LIKE YOU take their bodies to  the NEXT LEVEL in 52 COUNTRIES AROUND THE PLANET.

Order  Complete DVD and Book Library Special NOW

Many bodybuilders don’t let the body parts they’ve trained fully recover  and recuperate before training that body part again.

Some bodybuilders mistakenly believe that if they  get more workouts in every week for a each body part, they’ll get better results  that much faster. Although I certainly admire this kind of ambition, it’s not  going to propel them forward like they think. In fact, this approach will set  them back. Exhibiting less effort will actually produce a better outcome than  all of that work.

Rest and recuperation from each workout is probably  the most important, yet most-often neglected component for effectively building  muscle. Rest and recuperation means allowing your muscles to fully recover after  each and every intense workout. Only when your muscles have fully recuperated  can they be blasted again with weights. That is, of course, if you expect to  build muscle in the most effective manner. You certainly can train a body part  before it has fully recovered—but that’s not going to produce the best results.  You are really just wasting a lot of time and effort. You must wait until the  muscle heals from the trauma you’ve caused.

Besides experiencing better  muscle recovery, your training will get better. When you train each body part  less frequently, you will have more strength during each body part workout. If  you successfully overload the muscles with heavier weight, you will stimulate  more growth over time.

Take Action and Do This NOW!

Remember that more is not necessarily better. Let the muscle groups  fully recover before you blast them again. Train each body part no more than two  times a week—and even two times will be a stretch if you train naturally and  with true intensity.

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Learn what it  takes to finally WIN at your bodybuilding and training efforts from a proven  CHAMPION. Step-by-step, you’ll MASTER your weight training, cardiovascular  training, eating, mental, and lifestyle strategies with Skip La Cour’s. .  .<strong />

“The Mindset and Actions of a Champion” Bodybuilding and Training  Audio Seminar Course

Get the Files Emailed to You NOW and Begin Your Road to Bodybuilding and  Training MASTERY TODAY!

Hello Men!

It’s  Skip La Cour.

I  just wrapped up “The Mindset and Actions of a Champion”  Bodybuilding and Training Seminars series–and it was AWESOME  (of course)!

If  you missed out because of scheduling challenges or were just too indecisive to  learn what I had to offer, you are in luck.

I’m  making the mp3 sound files and pdf file  workbook available to you for the same great price as if you stepped up  at the beginning!

I promised NINE (9) hours–and I delivered over 13 hours and 30  minutes!

Your investment is only $99.97

Get the files emailed to you NOW and begin your road to bodybuilding and  training MASTERY TODAY!

Click HERE to order.

Special Note:

This  audio series is currently being professionally edited and turned into a  beautifully-presented audio CD program (hard copy version). The price will be  $349.97. If you invest in the audio and pdf files now–and then decide you  want the “hard copy version” later when it is done–I will give you credit for  the $99.97 you send now. Now, how can you beat that offer?

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“Learn the  ‘Real Stuff’ a Champion MUST know but more importantly the ‘Real Stuff’ that  makes a Champion, a Champion! You won’t find this knowledge in a Bodybuilding  Magazine. What Skip teaches in ‘The Mindset and Actions of a Champion’ goes  beyond sets and reps, nutrition, and supplements. Skip teaches what really  matters if your desire is to become a Champion. Learn from a proven Champion and  save yourself lots of wasted energy, frustration, and time. And, the best thing  is what you learn can make you a Champion in all aspects of your  life!”

Tom Anthony  Roehl
Greenfield, WI

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“The Mindset and Actions of a Champion” Bodybuilding and Training  Seminar Outline

The Mindset of Champion
Session One (2  hours and 29 minutes)

Learn twenty-seven (27) of the most-important  SPECIFIC thoughts and actions of those men who WIN in their bodybuilding and  training efforts. When you think like a CHAMPION and do what he does, you will  finally start WINNING in your bodybuilding and training efforts at the level you  REALLY want.

Train Like A Champion
Session Two (2  hours and 26 minutes)

Learn thirty-two (32) SPECIFIC reasons why a  CHAMPION has the incredible ability to make ANY training strategy produce  outstanding results. Adopt this mindset in the gym and start creating the body  you really want.

Eat Like A Champion
Session Three (2  hours and 12 minutes)

Learn twenty-one (21) SPECIFIC reasons why a  CHAMPION can make ANY nutritional program produce impressive results. Adopt this  mental approach toward your eating habits and start building rock-hard muscle  and shedding lingering body fat in a fraction of the time it is taking you  now.

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“I feel that,  no matter where someone is in their journey, they can benefit from ‘The Mindset  and Actions of a Champion.’ It’s fortified with lots of great information from a  widely-known, accomplished World Class athlete and coach. I believe the strength  of this program comes from the centralized purpose of simply helping others  succeed. Each stage is structured, well-rounded, sincere, and provides fuel for  the fire to find the focus needed and keep the momentum going. Now that I have  successfully completed all the sessions, I’ll review them to help me stay inside  the guardrails as I work towards my goals. Sometimes in life when emotions run  high, it helps to have the voice and insight of Skip La Cour to think logically  about dieting, workouts, and stay on the path to success.”

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Austin, TX

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The Structured Thoughts, Actions, and Lifestyle  of a Champion
Session Four (1 hour and 36 minutes)

Learn fifty-two (52) SPECIFIC ways a CHAMPION  structures his day and gets himself to follow through with what he knows he  needs to do to WIN. Adopt Champion-like structure to your bodybuilding and  training lifestyle and you’ll start winning too.

Goal-Setting Workshop -  Champion-Style
Session Five (2 hours and 29 minutes)

A Champion wins at an incredible level because of  his outrageous standards, tremendously high expectations, and lofty goals. With  what you’ve learned during the previous four Seminar sessions, you will NOW be  ready to start going for what you REALLY want out of your bodybuilding and  training efforts-instead of only what you’ve been settling for in the past. This  goal-setting session will get you to finally think BIG, create an ambitious  “target,” and enthusiastically shoot toward it.

Successfully Integrating the Thoughts and  Actions of a Champion Into Your Lifestyle
Session Six (1 hour and 41  minutes)

Learn seventy-seven (77) of the most-effective,  SPECIFIC strategies a CHAMPION executes for CONTINUAL physical, mental, and  emotional growth. When you execute these champion-like strategies, you will  enjoy CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT in your body’s appearance, your training intensity  and productivity, your ability to follow through with good eating habits, and  with your mental focus.

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“’The Mindset  and Actions of a Champion’ is another example of your outstanding service and  products! I will listen to the program again and again. Thank you, Skip, for  your dedication and service to bodybuilding, fitness and the mental side of this  awesome sport!”

Paul  Henning
Tallahassee, FL

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Many Bodybuilders  Underestimate the Importance of Heavy Training When Striving to Build More  Muscle

Many bodybuilders do not believe it is important to lift heavy weight in order to build muscle. Regardless of what the “everything-in-moderation” preachers try to tell you, believe me when I tell you that big weight will lead to big muscles.

Now, I realize that the word “heavy” means different things to different people. By heavy, I am talking about continually challenging yourself to lift more weight than your body is already acclimated to lifting week in and week out—whatever that amount of weight may be. I know some bodybuilders who have lifted the same amount of weight for literally years—and wonder why they’ve hit training plateaus.

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I firmly believe heavy, overload training is what you need to effectively build high-quality, dense muscle mass in the shortest period of time. I like to refer to the human body as a “sensitive adapting machine”. When you lift heavy weights, you call upon your body’s adaptive abilities to make the necessary adjustments. Your body simply must adapt in order to handle the burden of heavy weight. In other words, you literally force your muscles to grow. If your body wants to survive the trauma you’ve created through resistance training, it has no other choice.

This explanation describes what is known as muscle hypertrophy. The muscles of the human body grow larger and stronger in an effort to properly adjust to the demanding conditions of its environment.

Heavy training is the most  efficient way to build muscle. How do I define the word “efficient” when it comes to building muscle? Efficient muscle-building is getting the maximum results in the shortest period of time while putting forth the least amount of effort.

Why is heavy training so efficient? Physically, you reach absolute failure much sooner during each set. Absolute failure, or working every set until you are so fatigued you can’t do any more, should be your goal for every set of every exercise. Additionally, heavy training is more mentally efficient because if you reach absolute failure sooner rather than later. You are required to concentrate and focus for a shorter period of time. The shorter the period of time you need to concentrate and focus, the better your chances of exerting 100 percent of your abilities during a particular set and throughout your entire workout.

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Many bodybuilders mistakenly believe that the more time and effort they put into  their training during each workout, the better results they will experience.  They pride themselves on pushing themselves through grueling, marathon workouts  that are loaded with lots of exercises and sets. These determined individuals  work each body part as many as three times a week with the hopes that this kind  of superhuman effort will produce the massive results in a shorter period of  time.

Most people who are committed to their training programs have the  tendency to train too much. Their enthusiasm and desire to build their physiques  makes them want to train as often as they possibly can.

Wrong. Wrong.  Wrong.

Unfortunately, that is not how the muscle-building process  works. This is somewhat of a difficult concept to grasp because it’s not how  most things work in life. Most of the time, the amount of effort you put into a  particular endeavor directly correlates to your results. In other words, the  more time and effort you invest, the better the results you’ll get. However,  this is not true when it comes to packing-on muscle and developing your  physique.

There is an expression that says that one man’s set is equal  to another man’s workout. Don’t confuse training volume with training  effectiveness. They are not the same. You may need to cut down the time you  spend in the gym and reduce your training volume to experience the muscle gains  you’re after. You can do this by becoming more efficient in the gym.

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Your weight training  sessions should last no longer than one hour. And you know what? I’m being  extremely liberal with that amount of time. Regardless of how you try to  rationalize it, longer training sessions are NOT more productive. You must force  yourself to become just as effective in a shorter period of time by becoming  more efficient. Stimulating the muscles can be done quite effectively in one  hour or less. It is a fact that the more time you spend in the gym, the more  your concentration and focus will wane. The more your mental focus and  concentration diminish the less effective you will become physically.

Planning to do only two or three sets with only three or four exercises  per body part creates that sense of urgency you need. Many lifters give  themselves four and five sets of a particular exercise to get the job done. If  you give yourself four or five chances to do anything, undoubtedly there will be  less importance, less of a demand, or less of a sense of urgency to give as much  effort as you really can during the first couple of sets. It is only human  nature for us to think that way under those conditions. In order for us to  perform at our highest level of performance, we must change those  less-than-ideal mental conditions.

Anything less than 100 percent effort  during a set is a wasted set. I can’t tell you exactly how many sets you should  use to train each of your body parts effectively—and neither can anyone else. It  all depends on that ever-evolving, ever-changing, constantly re-defining level  of intensity. However, you should just remember that more isn’t better. Better  is better.

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Some  bodybuilders show up to the gym on a consistent basis but are not demanding  enough out of themselves while they are there. It is like they are merely  “punching a time clock” when they are in the gym. I do appreciate their  commitment and consistency but, to get the muscle gains they are after, they  will have to add more quality to what they do during their workouts.

There is a huge difference between activity and intensity. Activity is  merely showing up. That’s a good start but it’s not going to get these  bodybuilders the results they are truly after.

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Intensity when training can be described as giving 100  percent of your mind, body, and soul to every repetition, every set, every  exercise, and every workout. Whatever training routine or philosophy you decide  to use, you must train with intensity. Without enough intensity, your training  efforts will produce results that are mediocre at best. Intensity means pounding  the weights so hard that every set throughout your entire workout ends in  absolute failure. In other words, you have absolutely nothing left in reserve  when the set is completed. Intensity is just as much a mental feat as it is a  physical one.

Intensity can also be defined as consistently striving for  a higher level of excellence with every exercise, set, and rep you perform  regardless of what you have achieved in the past. You constantly strive to raise  your standards for what you expect of yourself during every session. Intensity  is never being satisfied with your current level of performance or development  because, deep inside your soul, you know that you’re capable of at least one  more repetition, five more pounds, or a slight improvement in your form or  execution.

When you train with this type of passion, zeal, and  enthusiasm, constant improvement in your physique is inevitable. If you train  with intensity, there’s no question that you’ll be more productive in your  bodybuilding efforts than those people who do not. The higher your training  intensity level becomes, the better you’ll be at initiating the muscle-building  process.

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