Bodybuilding Quickstart
Sunday • February 15th 2026 • 10:01:27 pm
To start bodybuilding you have to find your current non-stop workout duration, and then match it with weights that you lift non stop for that duration.
Initially you will run into the same trouble that joggers have, you run out of endurance.
To earn your first non-stop hour, start by slowly jogging for 15, 30, 45 and eventually 60 minutes.
If jogging is too hard, it is not a problem, please begin by hiking long distances.
And then begin adding to your now 60 minute jog, 3, 5, 7.5, and for some 10 pound dumbbells, in each hand.
It is up to your body, to set the speed of your adaptation.
But it won’t be long, before your 15 minute jog induces adaption to jog 20 and then 30 minutes.
It is the same with dumbbells, be good to yourself don’t’ skip the 3 pounders, those help you stretch and also prepare your muscles.
If 5 pounds feels like it is doing nothing for you, do not ignore this signal, it means they are too light for you, and you mix in or move onto 7.5.
At the end of your jogging phase you will earn one hour of endurance, and good muscle to cycle non-stop standing dumbbell exercises.
You cannot workout without music, that makes you want to dance.
If it does not make you move, you will get distracted, and start wating for your exercise to be over, and quit.
You must move in sync with the beats of your songs, often called dancing, one beat up, next beat down.
This mental and physical synchronization effort, along with pretty songs, will help you enter a dance trance where hours feel like minutes.
Be sure to select slower songs at first, or during a dumbbell weight increase.
Choose 1990s dance country over techno, and let your body adapt before switching to faster songs.
You can stop between songs for a few seconds, but you are able to jog with at least 7.5 lb dumbbells, so you don’t need rest.
If it hurts it means you are cutting off your circulation, that is not part of exercise, that disrupts your normal operation.
Right before you feel like you will have to stop, you switch to another standing dumbbell exercise.
When biceps hurt, you switch to overhead shoulder press, and you will quickly recover, and then you return to bicep curls.
If you have to stop, you are lifting too heavy, you don’t have the required jogging endurance, you are doing it wrong.
Doing it wrong will grow your muscles only once, but you will end up lifting too heavy unable to lift heavier.
And lifting for just seconds, often while sitting or laying, is the slowest possible way to adapt, it takes decades instead of months.
When you keep it light, you can always throw in extra minutes, of mix in slightly heavier dumbbells, or switch to slightly faster songs.
I am sorry to say, that lifting heavy for 20 seconds, when you should lift got 60 does not do all theat much.
So what does it look like? you come in to a gym somehow able to lift for an hour like some maniac.
And then every year you double in size, folks who temporary come in in winter see you transforming like crazy.
It is because you spend a considerable amount fo time, constantly telling your body you need more, and then more and, more.
So your body, given the food, mostly farmer type meals, will just keep growing – there is nothing unusual about this.
When people hurt their leg and need a cast, it becomes skinny, but then in just a few months grows muscles back.
The dumbbells and the frequency with which you move them, push that restoration, higher and higher.
A total of 40 pounds, or 20 pounds per hand, for up to three hours, makes you very muscular.
