you need to focus on three key pillars:
#1 Mistakes in Training: You're Training Like a Typical "Gym Bro"
3. Recovery & Hormonal Balance – The Hidden Progress Killer
2. Nutrition, Supplements & Sports Nutrition – The Fuel for Growth
1. Training – Your Foundation
🔻 Ego lifting – choosing weights that are way too heavy just to "look strong"
🔻 Ignoring technique – because "I can feel the burn, so it must be working."
🔻 Chasing the pump – instead of focusing on structured progression
❌ Your chest isn’t growing
❌ Your shoulders hurt
❌ Your elbows are clicking
❌ And in two months, you’re on a forum asking how to fix your joints
❌ Poor recovery – Not sleeping enough, sleeping poorly, or having low-quality sleep? Then forget about progress.
❌ Low testosterone levels – If your T is down, your muscles won’t grow no matter how hard you train.
❌ Vitamin & mineral deficiencies – You have no idea how much this slows down your progress.
✅ If you train with periodization, your growth will be steady and predictable.
✅ If you train without a plan, you’ll eventually hit a plateau.
❌ Cortisol overload – High stress = low testosterone = zero growth.
❌ Gut health issues – If everything you eat just “passes through” you, no diet will help.
❌ Poor macronutrient balance – Too little protein, too much fat or carbs? The result = fat gain instead of muscle growth.
❌ No tracking – Are you just “feeling” the workout, or are you actually tracking your volume and progression?
❌ Overtraining or undertraining – If you’re completely drained after every session or, on the other hand, leaving the gym feeling “fresh,” then something’s wrong.
❌ Random program selection – Split, full-body, push/pull… there’s no one-size-fits-all, yet most people just grab the first routine they find.
❌ No progressive overload – If you’re lifting the same weight for weeks or months, don’t be surprised when your muscles stop growing.
❌ Ignoring sports supplements – Supplements won’t work miracles, but when used correctly, they can speed up your growth significantly.
❌ Eating too little or too much – If you don’t know how many calories you specifically need, you’re either undereating or overeating.
❌ Zero technique – Are you training your chest, but your shoulders hurt instead? That’s not “muscle activation”—it’s a shortcut to injury.
You can train perfectly, but if your diet is garbage and your gut health is wrecked to the point where nothing gets absorbed, you won’t see results.
Most guys sabotage their progress with the wrong approach to training:
They are what determine whether you’ll progress like a machine or stay stuck in the same place for years.
Yeah, this isn’t groundbreaking news. You’ve heard it a thousand times before, but give me just a couple more minutes, and you’ll understand what I’m really trying to tell you.
Training periodization is one of the key elements for long-term muscle growth!
❌ You might even lose progress, since you’re not controlling how your body responds to training.
❌ You train to failure all the time, never giving your body a chance to properly recover.
❌ Your muscles adapt to the same workload, and growth stalls.
🔥 Here’s the problem:
Most people just go to the gym, bench, squat, do pull-ups, but… their results stay the same. Why?
Because their program ignores the key principle of muscle growth—periodization.
What Happens If You Ignore Periodization?
Periodization Isn’t Just a Trend—It’s a Must for Continuous Muscle Growth
🔥 If you want real progress instead of just spinning your wheels, you need a system—not a random collection of exercises.
How Does Periodization Work?
Periodization takes into account several key factors:
What Is Periodization & Why Does It Matter?
Periodization is a systematic way of changing your training variables so that your body never fully adapts and is forced to keep progressing.
Why Are You Stuck Without Periodization?
If you train the same way month after month, your muscles adapt quickly and stop growing.
Think of it like solving the same math problem every day—at first, your brain works, but after a couple of weeks, you do it on autopilot and stop improving.
✅ Not all popular exercises are effective. Think about how much time and energy you’re wasting on exercises that do absolutely nothing for muscle growth…
Now take a look at the chart when we slightly change the technique and the weight — the muscles are working much more actively!
Let’s go back to one of my videos.
First, take a look at the muscle activation chart during a lift using different popular grips — which, as you’ll see, barely make any difference:
Simply by eliminating useless exercises from your program, you will already speed up muscle growth.
✅ Tracking & analytics – You’re not just counting sets and reps; you’re measuring total training volume (both per exercise and per session), tonnage, and energy expenditure for each set.
✅ Rest and recovery – Muscles don’t grow in the gym—they grow during recovery. Periodization helps prevent overtraining by adjusting intensity at the right times.
✅ Alternating volume and intensity – You go through phases where you lift heavier weights with fewer reps, followed by phases with higher volume and moderate loads.
✅ Load cycling – Different training periods focus on strength, endurance, or pure muscle mass gains.
✅ Progressive overload – You’re not just lifting weights; you’re constantly increasing volume, intensity, and loadover time.
✅ Weight is a tool, not the goal.
If you can’t lift it with proper control and form, you don’t need it.
✅ Exercises must be performed according to biomechanics and anatomy—this increases training efficiency by 1.5 times because the RIGHT muscles are actually doing the work.
If your shoulders are doing most of the work in a bench press, then you’re not actually training your chest—you’re just moving weight from A to B.
Now, Remember This:
As you've probably noticed from watching my videos, proper technique has a huge impact on your muscle growth:
How You Should Train Instead:
Ever wondered why the strongest powerlifters train below their max most of the time?
Because their goal is to build real strength and power—not just show off.
You Walk Into the Gym, See a Jacked Guy Benching 120kg for 10 Reps, and Think:"Alright, I gotta do what this dude is doing."
So, you load up a weight that’s way too heavy, struggle under the bar, push it up however you can—just to get the reps in.
The result?
A system that works against chaos, against mistakes, against outdated or scientifically baseless information.
And now, let’s break down the key reasons why your muscles aren’t growing—and what you can do about it.
If your hormones and recovery are in the gutter, forget about serious muscle gains.
Keep reading—I’m about to break down each of these problems and show you exactly how to fix them.
But before we dive in, remember the most important message I want to get across to you:
Your technique and exercise biomechanics matter more than the weight you're lifting.
Muscles grow at maximum speed only when you build a system where every element is optimized for peak performance.