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I’ve been going to the gym for about 2 and a half years now and didn’t really start taking it seriously until 7th of February 2007. Since then my motivation in everything I do has increased greatly. So have my happiness, health, strength and muscles. I feel like I’m constantly progressing in life. In reality I have no good reason to become strong and muscular but I do this mostly for my mind rather than for my body.

My overall strength has increased ~15% since that day (in 2 months) which is clearly the best progress I’ve had since being a total beginner. I’ve been able to increase weights every week while I’d normally be stuck for some weeks.

Now let me tell you what I define as hardcore training: To make the training your lifestyle. You’d go to the gym at least 3 times per week and eat bodybuilding style at least five times a day. It will basically be on your mind 24/7 and to me it feels like the most important thing to me while my logic clearly states that it isn’t but that’s ok. To my conscious mind work is much more important but now work feels less like work, while training and eating feels a bit like work. Currently I’m perhaps a bit too hardcore and I’m calculating my energy intake every meal and separating fat from carbohydrates because that makes fat cell generation harder.

I’ll talk more about bodybuilding food later but I’m sure you can find out more about it elsewhere for now.
Now I also need to tell you what little benefits loose gym training has over hardcore gym training: Gym training won’t stress you at all unless you’re really lazy and have to force yourself to go there just to maintain your body. Personally I didn’t have that problem even when I was training loose. Hardcore training will stress you usually, more or less. You’ll be able to eat more loosely; undefined amounts of food and better tasting foods.