[quote]forbes wrote:
Alpha wrote:
trextacy wrote:
Alpha wrote:
trextacy wrote:
Alpha wrote:
trextacy wrote:
alpha,
can you write up a little bit more about your routines, how you set them up, set/seps, exercise selection, etc.? i’ve looked around but with the log being deleted i haven’t found much.
thanks for your time (and you are a beast)
You’re in luck friend, go back one page and there is a link someone resurrected the thing…Now you can see exactly what i have been doing for the last few months!
Oh yeah, I got that and printed it out- it only had one page (page 22) of your log and it appears that you were wrapping up a period of 5/3/1 and were moving on to a full-body approach w/ giant sets of 4 exercises (big lower body movement, upper push, upper pull, abs) for 8x3 w/ some assistance afterwards. I was just wondering what sort of routine you used when you built your muscle/strength if it was different than gians sets for full body, etc. In any event, the log that was salvaged from google cache was only 1 page from the log (not the whole thing) so it was great but kind of a tease.
If it would be too time consuming then please don’t worry about putting more up, I was just interested in knowing more since I somehow missed the log before.
Again, congrats on the achievements.
Man, I totally thought that was the entire thing! That kind of sucks because I was hoping to pull some of the stuff I wrote back off of there…
Anyway, The giant sets with full body started because it is kind of like crossfit for tough guys…Is so much as it is as challenging for your heart, lungs, and skeletal muscles…And I need all 3. So this stuff is trying to make me have great endurance, great strength, and a hard mindset. thats where those came from…
When I started lifting in HS I had a coach who (Although all I wanted to do was bench) made us squat, DL, and Clean regularly…So they became part of my routine from the beginning. I saw how much they helped me gain strength and size so I always put them into my routines…Once I found this place, the writings, (especially in the beginning)backed up what my coach was always telling us…I guess that’s why I am suck a big pusher of those exercises over others.
And now I use these to help push me to new levels of suck that I have never been to before in hopes of crawling out the other side a better man. I can’t really seem to do that with leg presses…
I hope that kind of explained some things, if not just ask again, hopefully it will get through my thick skull!
Thanks
Yeah, i was hoping to see the whole log, but oh well. That is helfpul though. I am still curious about your program though, or what you would recommend for someone. I gather that you are doing an A/B split of sorts (alternating 2 workouts) but is it 3 total workouts per week? So, week 1 you do A/B/A and week 2 you do B/A/B w/ a day or 2 of rest between workouts? Or something else? If you would recommend another setup or used another setup for how you added your mass/strength I’d be interested to see that too. I love the idea of doing an A/B split with sprints/HIIT worked in on non-lifting days but your approach obviously kicks ass so I’m curious about how exactly you recommend doing things.
Again, you da man.
Well I pretty much only follow programs that I make up myself and they are almost always 4-5 days a week full body stuff with cardio at the end.
training days are decided by my work and how often I am out of the country and other craziness, so i don’t really have a set schedule as far as off days and the such, I just work as hard as often as I am able.
As far as recommendations go I really don’t like to tell others how to train because we are all made differently and all respond differently to training. Thats why I never get involved in these lame tbt/split arguments…IMO the are a waste of time…What works for me may not work for anyone else, but i have taken the time to try a TON of different things and now i feel as if I have some idea of what works best for me and my goals…
The Dude abides just posted how I typically cycle programs through the year, and you can be sure the each workout looks virtually like this:
Variation of squat or DL
Another compound lower body movement
Upper body compound pull
Upper body Compound push
Ballistic movement or Olympic lift
Accessory work
Hard cardio
I do variations of this in Giant and superset ways 4-5 days a week. And the days I take off i usually go for a long run outside…
Hopefully this helps more
Thanks for asking
When you began, did you do the same movements every time you trained, or did you do different variation each time you went to the gym?[/quote]
always different variations, but they were and are often as simple as a variation in grip.
