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Compartmentalization is great in ‘real life’. We must apply ourselves with 100% intensity at work, focusing on the tasks given to us from our employer, the challenges given to us by current and prospective customers, and in dealing with the economic factors which are changing from day to day. Yet when lunch break arrives, we immediately return to alternate roles of husband or wife, parent, student, NASCAR fan, or anything else that has nothing at all to do with work and is readily available on your smart phone. Breaking up the things we need to focus upon, and applying our resources at 100% so easily is a talent and a skill that we all develop.

When it comes to splitting up the many aspects of bodybuilding, some people have mastered the art of compartmentalization. They break down the various aspects of training, nutrition, supplementation and rest into separate sections. Sometimes they will nail it – and completely eat right or train right for a week – but that’ll be the week they skip supplementation. Or, they will religiously drink plenty of water and take their creatine and Mesobolin for a month straight, but this will be the same month they only hit the gym a handful of times.

Nailing it “some of the time” or hitting your goals on a partial basis might work in some places, such as your job or school where results are based more on a to-do list than they are upon an overall recipe of success. When it comes to adding muscle and building fat, it’s more like baking a cake than it is about building a desk. You can assemble any section of a desk in any order, taking an hour or a month, and in the end, you will have that perfect desk. But you certainly can’t take that approach to baking a cake. Just like when building a physique, you have to have all of the factors in place all of the time – nailing it on every head almost simultaneously in order for that muscle building magic to occur.

The bottom line is that bodybuilding is an all or nothing endeavor. If you want to build muscle, then you need to bring your “A” game when it comes to training, eating, taking supplements and resting. All of the aspects, all of the time. And when you can do this, your muscles will grow!