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Most of those tips are dead on, but I would take issue first with the training partner recommendation and then the "no more than three workouts a week" advice.
Maybe it's just my gym, but most of the people I see have their heads up their asses when it comes to training. You figure you might see one or two guys in there who know what they're doing, and you're supposed to get one of those guys to match your training schedule exactly so that you can both train together? Way too much work. If you've got a great partner, no doubt it's a excellent benefit, but finding one is tough and you can do just as well on your own if you're disciplined enough.
And I happen to train 5 days a week because my training is so intense I can't hit three different parts in one day. I'm beat after just two. Since they are already recommending you hit each workout as intense as possible, it seems to me that only training three times a week would be a mistake, since by the time you get to that third body part, you already sapped yourself of most of your energy. If three days is all the time you have to give it, sure, work out three days a week. But limiting yourself to that for no specific reason except that you like to rest for four days seems counterintuitive. I would think 4 or 5 days a week would be ideal.
Also, keeping your diet in check should be rule #2, maybe rule #1. You will see absolutely no progress whatsoever if you don't do that. If you lift long enough, you begin to realize that your progress has more to do with your dedication in the kitchen than in the gym. Quite frankly, lifting is the easy part. It's the other 163 hours in the week that determine your success.
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