Vince Gironda on Training Ruts

It happens to the best of us. Here are some ideas from the Iron Guru himself, courtesy of his book The Wild Physique

Muscle growth and strength gain are a process of physiological adaptation to stress, as Mark Rippetoe likes to say. You place acute stress on the muscles by lifting weights, say by doing five sets of five reps, then you allow the body to respond to that stress, by resting and eating properly (enough calories and protein, to simplify more than a little).…