If you want to increase muscle size then the most important thing is that you need to be adding weight progressively.
   Be patient though because overworking your muscles can actually cause damaging effects. In the beginning you will probably see results fairly quickly but over time your muscle mass gains will seem less apparent. This is common and happens because as your body gets used to the workout routine it knows what to expect. Try alternating your workouts and doing different varieties of exercises.  This will keep your body guessing.

It certainly looks like the USA has caught the UK fever in changing the Top Three quickly...hope it's not a trend?

In the UK, Hooray! No Elvis in the Top Three.  There is the sound of cheers all round as a buttock-clenchingly long run of Number One hits finally comes to an end. Tony Christie and his alleged collaborator Peter Kay chalk up a second week at Number One making 'Amarillo' the first single to spend more than a solitary seven days at the top of the charts since Band Aid 20 back at Christmas. Since then we have seen (deep breath now) Steve Brookstein, Elvis (twice), Ciara, Elvis again, Eminem, U2, J-Lo, Nelly, Stereophonics and McFly all take a turn at the top - a run of 13 weeks with a different single at Number One each time. This has been the longest such run since the 14 week spell that ended in September 2000, and just to show how suddenly things on the singles chart had sped up, it was not until the end of May last year that we saw the 11th new Number One hit of 2004.

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 Subscriber's Section:

An unusual one this week.  A Member has huge success....but the next step can be so crucial:

Dear Dec, Please I need your help, I really do! This is about M***, my son who is on the cruise ships. He is now being approached nearly every contract concerning his wonderful performance. He is being asked who is his manager. A well known director from Britain, I am waiting his name from M***, told him this week that he could see him as the new Bruce Forsythe. I think I should be doing something this end to help my son.

Do you know someone who would manage and advise M***? Looks very much like he is ready to take the next step from the ship. This is a big step and it has to be made in the right way, I have butterflies in my tummy just writing this, so that is a good sign!

Hope you and your family are well, I will wait to hear from you after Easter.

Kind regards P****** O**********.

Answer:

P******
 
I can certainly introduce you to excellent management.
 
However......
 
And there is always a 'however'.
 
A cruise ship audience is what we call a 'pie' audience, particularly when the entertainer is the cruise director.  That is not damping your spirits, it is telling you what will be said to you by proposed management.
 
At the moment, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by M*** having a manager.  As I always say: "what is there to manage?".  A manager cannot wave a magic wand and suddenly get an audition to shoot a guy to stardom...that is a fantasy in the mind of novices...and your son is not a novice, by any means.
 
Your son would have to prove his worth in a normal stage situation...say a major benefit [charity bash].  Even then, this would be hard to achieve because no one will know who he is, or what he is.  He simply would have to prove his talent in all the normal ways.  That is the way it works.
 
I would suggest the best way forward would be for M*** to strive to get land based gigs, so then, those that matter can be invited to see him....and that is 'hard'.  But infinitely easier than getting a management company to go on a ship for a cruise?
 
There is a hidden danger, always in having success in a 'local' situation, and a ship is a 'local' situation.  It is the same with artists coming from Ireland [as I did] and South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden.  It is reasonably easy to be a major star in those countries...I know, because I was, at age 17, in Ireland.  That is what is called "a big fish in a small sea"....but when you actually get into the 'big sea' i.e. the UK or USA mainstream Show Biz, it is tough!  We had to literally swallow our pride, forget about our past success and start all over again in the dumps and dives in England or the USA.
 
Would M*** leave the security and comfort of his present, cosy, well paid environment to do that?
 
I wonder?  I did!
 
There is a lot to think about.  But success is there to be had.
 
I know a dozen entertainers who practically 'live' on the ships.  Every audience tell them the same as M*** has been told.  Sadly they have a comfy life, no responsibilities and they never get anywhere.  Suddenly they are 55 and worried.