^^^^ Bp will be a creature of my own design.
yesterday: Treadmill something at something for something
Today:
Strict bent rows : 3 x 5 x 136/190x5/220x5/250x8
Pull downs 4 x 10 x sw not sure how much the actual stack is
Shrugs : 3 x 15 x 345
Alternate DB curls: 3 x 10 x Who cares …Its still amazing to me that I can have the largest arm measurement there with the most density .With the least impressive biceps…lol
Standing cable crunches : 5 x 10 x Sw
Damn near snapped at the head trainer at the YMCA tonight. But I was able to keep my mouth shut. She was working with a new client. This new client hadn’t never worked out in her life. The training was having her doing hyper extensions with zero isometric hold in her spine. While she was holding two small plates in each had. As the women was coming up from the bottom the training was having her doing a reverse fly. What the hell do you call that!! A revers flyextension? I swear the newbies on this site have more common scenes.
For anyone who’s interested. I’m working on another half ass article. The biggest part is just sticking to one subject. Ill try to have it posted by this weekend.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
For anyone who’s interested. [/quote]
I am.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
For anyone who’s interested. [/quote]
I am.[/quote]
Well then its worth it 
Wow!! Just adding a little cardio is paying off.
My excess body fat is dropping like a Prom Queen’s panties on prom night.
Your prom experience must have been different from mine
Congrats on the fat loss!
Good little article. Tis too true that we’re all individuals; I see any given program as a group of suggestions. Unfortunately, I also resemble damutt’s comment. I just let life get in the way too much. Congrats to BP for the Honor Society, my daughter was just inducted a week ago.
Young Franken-funny stuff loved Marty Feldman in that one 'walk this way"
looking forward to the next installment
[quote]damutt wrote:
Your prom experience must have been different from mine[/quote]
No, not really.
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Congrats on the fat loss![/quote]
Its not like a major victory or anything. Its pretty easy to drop it when your carrying excess. Its not like im trying to drop from 10 % to 5%.
[quote]tyrfryer wrote:
Good little article. Tis too true that we’re all individuals; I see any given program as a group of suggestions. Unfortunately, I also resemble damutt’s comment. I just let life get in the way too much. Congrats to BP for the Honor Society, my daughter was just inducted a week ago. [/quote]
Thanks I tried the best I could for being a hack. I agree regarding the suggestion thing. Ill be covering that slightly on the next article. Wow seems like allot of people have a children going in. Well tell your girl good job for me.
[quote]Jersey Centurion wrote:
Young Franken-funny stuff loved Marty Feldman in that one 'walk this way"
looking forward to the next installment[/quote]
Feldman stole the entire movie. All the best part had him.
I think ill have another installment posted tonight.
I started squatting tonight. Nothing felt right. So I shut it down, Ill give it another try tomorrow.
Disclaimer: As I have stated before this if for fun. This is nothing more than a way to actual express my views on training that I’ve picked up over the years. Like with most things on line take it with a grain of salt.
Coming full circle.
Once, you get strong remember what got you there- The legend Ed Coan
If anything since I’ve been back at it I been guilty of not doing so. To understand what I mean, it’s important to get a quick overview of my training experience. My introduction to productive weight training was as a freshman in High school. Up to that point I had played with a weight set of the old plastic concrete type at home. The first program I used was in school was Bigger, Faster, Stronger. Which I used until I was introduced to Arnold’s encyclopedia of Bodybuilding and a steady diet of Muscle rags whoops! I meant magazines. Around the age of 20 after 5 years of being under the bar, I developed my own set of principles to guide my lifting.
That, very short period was the most productive ever. Let’s call it my golden period let’s just say at this point I can not match some of those numbers as of yet… Unfortunately after this period I just sort of dropped out.[ it is a long story for another edition]
Then, a few years later I got interested in strongman. About a year in I started learning new things .With the help of the book Dinosaur Training as my guide. I followed it close to two years. I must say it was very productive for me. Chronic back pain, IT band issues and tendinitis in different areas and last but not least my shoulder bit the big one. Oh, I almost forgot mental burn out.
Well I hovered for awhile being that I was such a train wreck and couldn’t train to save my ass. I still had the desire. So I did the only thing I could do. I engulfed myself in actually studying training methods. Long story short I started back up which leads us to now.
Let’s discuss my golden period. As I stated I created a program based on basic principle I established for myself. Of course this was pre Internet and the only information widely available was a hand full of magazines along with guys at the gym along with trial and error. It worked incredibly well. 405 x 3 on bench, dips bw x 150 x 5, High Bar Olympic squats 315 x 30 [ Understand, at this point my focus was on developing quads like Platz. Not to mention I had not been taught how to do a proper power squat. ] Last but not least I pulled a 600 on dead lifts which was funny because most of the time I did stiff leg dead lifts. They might not have been elite but not bad numbers considering that my weight was only around 210 and natural.
Let’s put this in prospective. If the Internet existed back then and I was to present the program I was using. I would be flamed by members of certain boards. I’m sure I would be told that the program was crap. Basically because what I was doing had no value, because it did not follow the principles of whatever program that they were following. More than likely I would have never had follow my own instincts. I would have ever hit those numbers.
It's my point of view having your own training principles is more important than any program you can follow. Your training principles should govern your program you follow. Not the program governs your own principles. Which seems to be the trend most people do now of days. I will give you chances to guess who is guilty of this one.
Understand; when I say develop your own principles I’m not talking about basing it on some ignorant Bro science. I am talking about based on a handful of well established principle. For example, I don’t care what anyone thinks, for a person to actually reach their size and strength potential there going to have to do some form of Pushing, Pulling and Squatting. In a fashion which allows you to move more weight for a certain rep range in some progressive fashion over time, or in plain English GET STRONGER!! When setting up principles I would advise not to over complicate it. Keep it simple. Learn what is important and discard what isn’t.
Once you do develop your own principles it will benefit you in several ways. For one you will more than likely stick with a program since you wouldn’t be wasting mental effort worrying about the value of the program. Also it will keep you from jumping programs or experimenting and wasting time.
Unfortunately it’s pretty hard for people just starting out to develop their own principles. Not with the over abundance of information. Knowledge may be power, but too much information can just become back ground noise and can over complicate things
Looking at the quote from Ed Coan . It was taken from a interview. In it he commented when he started taking too much advice from others it started to have a negative effect what he was doing.
So my advice is this. If you’re doing something and it’s reasonable and it working and working well. Just keep doing it. Don’t overload yourself on allot of useless information. Develop principles based on what is working and stick with them
A couple of things really helped you:
You started training through puberty, when your body was growing anyway and you get the best gains,
You have good genetics.
Put it together, and even a sloppy program would produce terrific results. So I agree with Ed Coan - too many strong guys forget how they got there and tell people “just work harder - I got here through hard work”. Of course you worked hard, but that’s not enough - other factors are important.
The strong guy is confident he knows what works - no one gives him advice. Life is simple. But someone having problems gaining (like me) keeps grabbing advice, and drowns in it. Some people are selling you something, others don’t know - how to tell? Does this work? Does that work? If I wasn’t OCD before this, it would have made me OCD.
Bullpup has the best of all worlds: good genetics, a supportive environment, training during puberty, and good training (you). Hope he remembers Coan’s advice 10 yrs from now when Sports Illustrated interviews him.
I wish I could just get a steady 5 years in doing 6 month programs so I could get an idea of what might work. Again dog ur my inspiration in the strength world. If only I could make it mesh with everything else. I guess I’m really just looking for balance
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
So my advice is this. If you’re doing something and it’s reasonable and it working and working well. Just keep doing it. Don’t overload yourself on allot of useless information. Develop principles based on what working and stick with them[/quote]
Damn this is so true. Good post.
james