There were no courses or instructions or peer supervision. No mags in my library. I arranged and rearranged the makeshift set of weights and within a month I was fully hooked, cookin,' bombing and pumping. The routines, the programs, the outlines, the schemes, the workouts. Let's do the thing we talk about.
Nothing happens until it happens.
It's the iron in motion, the steel in hand and on the back, the weight on the bar and suspended from cable, pushed, pulled and cleverly, forcefully made to move from one place to another. You, whose hands are grasping tightly the equipment before you. I'll bet you figured it out on your own, hot shot. Desire, eager pursuit, practice, trial and error are built-in learning systems upon which we heavily depend. As with infant walking, nine out of ten of us will have a similar experience with weight training, provided basic guidance, an outline, a demonstration and an encouraging word of confidence.