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c H A p T E R 5 Building a Quality Physique: The Advanced Training Program THE ADVANCEDTRAININGProgram is for people who want to challenge themselves more, who are not content with simply being fit but want to develop a powerful, impressive physique. For these individuals, it is not enough to just gain a few pounds of muscle. Instead, they want not only serious gains in strength and muscle mass, but to sculpt the body as well- to achieve muscle shape and separation, to balance the proportions of the various muscle groups, and to create impressive muscular definition. But wanting to achieve it is not enough; you also have to learn how to do it. Nobody would expect to become a surgeon without learning every- thing about the body-how it is constructed, how it is put together, what all the parts are. To become a great bodybuilder you must learn all about the body-what the body parts and muscles are, the different areas of the body, how they tie together, and how the body responds to various pro- grams of exercise. If you dont know these things, you wont be able to de- velop your body to its full potential no matter how intense your motivation may be. And these are the subjects I will be dealing with in this and sub- sequent chapters of this encyclopedia. The bodybuilders physique is a carefully balanced combination of many factors, including shape, proportion, and symmetry. Bodybuilding 201 has been compared to sculpture, with the bodybuilder creating and shap- ing a physique the way the artist sculpts a statue from marble or granite. For the bodybuild