Pumped: Building Your Best You

By Stephen Rykwalder

Building a great body is one of the best feelings in the world. With so much information at our finger tips and a lot of it being contradictory, it is easy to give up hope on figuring out what to follow in regards to working out. This eBook will provide the fundamentals to help you get in the gym and obtain the explosive results you desire! This book is all about the beginner and giving you information to help you make good decisions when it comes to getting in the gym, as well as your health.

This book is dedicated to the beginner and is aimed at giving you, the beginner, all of the information needed to help make good decisions when it comes to getting in the gym, as well as building a healthier mind and body overall. We believe that your health is a lifestyle, not a quick fix. If you do not believe your health is important, there is no point in reading this book. However, if you are ready to improve all areas and aspects of your life, we welcome you to a journey that you will enjoy more and more as each day passes!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Rykwalder
• Release date: Aug 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301208876

Stephen Rykwalder

I am an entrepreneur at heart and recently left my corporate job to focus on helping people through various businesses. Fitness has been a passion of mine for close to a decade and I am still learning as I go. I love starting businesses and having a positive impact on the world.

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Abstract

Building a great body is one of the best feelings in the world. With so much information at our finger tips and a lot of it being contradictory, it is easy to give up hope on figuring out what to follow in regards to working out. This eBook will provide the fundamentals to help you get in the gym and obtain the explosive results you desire! This book is all about the beginner and giving you information to help you make good decisions when it comes to getting in the gym, as well as your health.

This book is dedicated to the beginner and is aimed at giving you, the beginner, all of the information needed to help make good decisions when it comes to getting in the gym, as well as building a healthier mind and body overall. We believe that your health is a lifestyle, not a quick fix. If you do not believe your health is important, there is no point in reading this book. However, if you are ready to improve all areas and aspects of your life, we welcome you to a journey that you will enjoy more and more as each day passes!

Pumped: Building Your Best You

By Brett and Stephen Rykwalder

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2013 Rykwalder

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Form and Technique

Chapter 2: Structuring Your Workout

Chapter 3: Nutrition and Diet

Chapter 4: Workout Supplements

Chapter 5: The Power of Sleep

Chapter 6: Modern Day Workouts

Chapter 7: Gym Etiquette

Final Conclusion

References

Introduction

Was there ever a time in your life where everything just seemed to fall apart? Maybe it was related to work, school, personal life, your health, or all of the above. Major struggles affect us on a deep level and tend to stick with us for a long time, if not the rest of our lives. The chances are good that you have experienced something like this and hopefully you have since recovered and have been able to take away some knowledge from the situation surrounding this unfortunate event. Throughout my life I have always held the belief that I am here to help others where I may have had a hard time. If you have ever had something like this happen to you during your life, then I think you will understand why the following story was so powerful.

Growing up in a family of five children, four boys and one girl, our house was always abuzz with noisy kids playing games, running around, playing basketball, baseball, football, or whatever else we could get our hands on. As we got older, we realized that only one of our brothers was blessed with the genes that would help him build muscle with ease. The rest of us, well, let’s just say that we looked like Christian Bale in The Machinist. Lots of people would call me skinny or scrawny, but what really started to get to me was when someone would ask me if I was anorexic. You see, people are harsh and they do not realize that it is just as disheartening to have people calling you skinny as it is to have them calling you fat. Either way, on a psychological level, you are being told that you are not up to standard.

On a quick side note, even if you are in the best shape in the world, it is not right to treat others as if they are below you or less than you. Bullying is a serious problem and one that I do not take lightly. There was a kid named Mark that I went to high school with that took his life when we graduated, because he reached a point where he thought he would never fit in, due to people treating him like he didn’t. I don’t know about anyone else, but I would feel horrible to know I was the reason a mother had to find her son hanging in her family’s garage as the life was leaving him.

So needless to say, by the time I graduated high school, always hearing all of these horrible things about how skinny I was, I was ready to do something about it. I did not and still do not believe in steroids or any other illegal chemical means of getting bigger. I was already eating everything in sight and it was not doing anything for me, so I knew I was in for a lot of hard work.

The first time I ever tried to bench press was on the back patio at my house, and I could not even get 70 lbs. up. It was embarrassing and it killed my self-esteem. Because this was something I really wanted, I decided I needed to get a gym membership and start working out with a group of people that could really push me to accomplish what I wanted – to gain weight. It was very hard for me to stay motivated in the very beginning because I was so weak and working out was not natural for me in any shape or form. I was gifted in sports and studies, but not working out and lifting weights. The first time I actually enjoyed working out was when I made my first gains in the gym. I was doing bicep curls with an EZ grip bar and I got up to 60 lbs. I was so proud of myself and I just remember feeling like I was on top of the world. Now, if you asked anyone else in the gym, they might have laughed at me for being so excited about curling 60 lbs., but it was an accomplishment for ME, and I do not have someone else’s body, so it was good for me and that is all that mattered.

I was hooked. I began to experience explosive gains in the gym through a dedicated workout regimen, but