Now that there are four phases of IBB, can you take one day of each and create a split training program? Meaning Mon. shoulders, Tues. legs, Thurs. back, and Sat. chest. If so, is there a specific day from each phase of you would recommend for each part? Would this not work because the structure and design of the program is just specializing on one body part?
Feels kind of like buying a loaf of bread, putting it in a blender, adding water, and sticking it in the oven. Of course you could, but why not use it like it is or do something yourself along the same principles (baking your own bread after the baker told you how to)?
i wouldn’t expect the same gains. The I,Bodybuilder program is based in specializing muscle groups. If you are taking one shoulder, one chest, one leg and one back workout you aren’t specializing anything. Run the program the way it is meant to be run.
[quote]BigBartDawg66 wrote:
i wouldn’t expect the same gains. The I,Bodybuilder program is based in specializing muscle groups. If you are taking one shoulder, one chest, one leg and one back workout you aren’t specializing anything. Run the program the way it is meant to be run.[/quote]
nuff said
Lol seriously?
I’m pretty sure each training session was designed as part of a bigger whole. Each workout isn’t a standalone but made so collectively. If you were going to do shoulders, which day would you pick? Obviously NONE because each workout builds on top of another sort of speak.
The whole purpose of IBB is to specialize a body part and maintain the rest. If you want to split up your training that way…then do it. Just respect the PRINCIPLES that hes trying to get across. Autoregulate, Perfect Rep, CNS activation.
Also, CT has stated something to the effect of the program isn’t so much a PROGRAM as it is a teaching tool.
The idea isn’t to just complete the program but to experience the tools within…perfect rep, ramping, auto-regulation, etc.
Specialization programs in general are better for growth in anyone beyond a beginner level. Also a specialization program will give you more chances to incorporate those tools with the various body parts.
Once you understand the tools it should be relatively easy to put together a split program using those tools. Even an arm specialization (which this program doesn’t have). But the key is understanding the tools. Why and when to do clusters? Dead start exercises? Regular “perfect rep” exercises. Also, once you incorporate this stuff into a split program where you are focusing on everything you end up focusing on nothing. Why? Because you can’t perform tricks just for the sake of performing tricks and so most of your workout will look like the total body days within the current program…their “force spectrum ramping” and “racket loading”. It’s like trying to incorporate supersets and dropset with everything…when doing a regular split it’s often times better to just be vanilla.
Alan
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