[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
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Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
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LiveFromThe781 wrote:
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chitown34 wrote:
Wow, 242 at 5’8 would be freaking huge.
eh, I’m massively fucking skinny at ~190. We’ll see. I think I need at least 50 more pounds before I’m going to feel like a big man. I want to graduate highschool at a lean 200. And graduate 4 year college at 240 lean.
you seem ecto, so if youre at that weight/height now i honestly doubt youd be 240@5’8 thats like off-season bodybuilder weight for that height.
I started lifting as a skinny fat 125 pound freshman. Now I’m 190 15-17% bodyfat. I’m going for 200 then I’m going to stay around that until I have to cut for powerlifting (181 lb weightclass). All of my measurements are small.
15" arms
24" thighs
48" shoulders
41" chest
/threadjack
Lol, when I started I was just shy of 5’10 (I believe, not too sure about the cm to feet+inch conversion) and weighed all of 120 pounds (with loose change in my pockets, of course).
You bastard actually outweighed me, despite being shorter 
One can guess how anorexic I looked (for real), despite eating tons of pasta and chocolate bars (8-10 big choc bars per day at school, 3 servings of pasta after school, coke or canned ice-tea all day long. Talk about living all healthy.)
Your arms really do seem a little small in comparison… mine hit 15 at 160 pounds, but then again I used a bbing routine.
As long as you push and pull enough, why should you care… You can always add some more assistance work if your arm strength/mass is limiting your lifts.
I’ll add direct arm work after coan-phillipi is over with. My shoulder dwarf my biceps when flexing. I really really hate doing arms though, haha. I’m adicted to heavy weights, and the strain of sq/dl prs. But I want to do a bodybuilding show at some point too.
Well, for Tris at least you should be fine… CGP’s or Smith Reverse-Grip Benches allow for quite some load, even on 10 rep sets
Or 20 rep RP sets, much better if you hate arm work… you just warm up enough and then do your 1 all out thing… Shouldn’t take long and no need for additional exercises…
How come you want to do a show, btw?
Just want to experience it all. I want to compete in Strongman and oly lifting at some point too. But bodybuilding and powerlifting can have pretty similar training styles. Especially at an earlier level. And I’m interested in both
so one rest pause set would actually be several sets with a few seconds in between until the muscle is fatigued to the point where I can’t do a single rep with the weight. right?[/quote]
Sort of, there are different ways to RP.
The DC way you all know, I believe: rep out, take 12-15 deep breaths, rep out again, 12-15 deep breaths, last time repping out.
What I was talking about for you arm training is a little different, it’s more like a 20 rep breathing squat: You take a weight that you can do some 10 times or so in a regular set…
You do as many reps as you can without pause, then take a few quick breaths, then do another rep or more, pause, rep, pause, rep, until you hit 20 or feel like you can’t do any more reps.
When you get close to/over 20, you increase the weight.
Watch the vids of Matt Kroc on youtube (Kroc rows, for example), he does it that way, I believe.
You can cheat the positive and just resist on the negative on your latter reps…
For triceps (CGP’s), rest the bar on pins in the rack or use the smith machine safety-thing (dunno what you call that) while you catch your breath. I wouldn’t recommend resting in the arms-extended position… Your joints/tendons take enough of a beating while locking out for powerlifting.
Dunno if the reverse-(wide)grip smith press is any good for powerlifters…
It packs on the mass fast, but it’s a little tricky to master, and normal CGP’s should have quite a bit more carryover into the PL style bench press.
Not that I know anything about PLing, mind you.
This is all for hypertrophy work, of course. You may still need to add heavy lockout stuff for your tris…
Hope that helps a little. Just thought you’d prefer doing that, as it doesn’t take much time and allows for fairly heavy loads.
Cheers