[quote]Dirty Gerdy wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
DG, poor child… Come and try my diet so that you can finally gain some fat… Then the other children won’t avoid you anymore…
You’ll have friends…
lol if you send me a diet plan C_C I will give it a shot.
DG[/quote]
It’s in BOI somewhere (last few pages), long-ass post of mine.
I think your taste-buds would die a miserable death between pasta and avocados if you tried it, though.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Dirty Gerdy wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
DG, poor child… Come and try my diet so that you can finally gain some fat… Then the other children won’t avoid you anymore…
You’ll have friends…
lol if you send me a diet plan C_C I will give it a shot.
DG
It’s in BOI somewhere (last few pages), long-ass post of mine.
I think your taste-buds would die a miserable death between pasta and avocados if you tried it, though.
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I like pasta…and avacodos. I might try it. lol
DG
Hey DG, this might make zero sense to you but it works for me concerning the leg seperation. I notice whenever I just completely straighten my leg and the resulting effect is obviously the flexing of my quad, that it just looks like a block of muscle.
However, if I leave a slight bend in my knee and really focus on just flexing the quad itself I get the separation, usually just 2 of the 3 heads, but nontheless that’s something. I think getting that separation to show through is as much a factor of the mind muscle connection when posing as it is anything else.
yea your right waylander. I think it depends on the person tho. I’m one of those people who slightly bends my knees as well, and I also slightly turn my feet outwards as it makes you appear to have more sweep. But I have a friend who straightens his leg out as much as possible with feet forward and looks the best for him.
A good poser knows how to hide weaknesses. Each pose is real similar from individual to individual but everybody has slight different techniques to give that illusion on stage that you are better than you are. lol
DG
My sincere congratulations to you Gerd. You’ve gone far and have made your presence known. Your doing it man! You’re there, dude and time is on your side. God speed, bra! On a side to the guy that was giving that one guy shit for having a V-taper, go hit up a bro forum or some other mindless forum due to the fact that you are obviously an idiot. Yet again, your doing it man.
[quote]Dirty Gerdy wrote:
HEYMZ:
Any show you do will judge your legs pretty harshly. Legs and back is what wins Olympia right? It carries down to all shows at all levels imo.
To be honest only you will know what works best for your legs. What worked for me is I used to love to squat (still do but it hurts more now) I loved getting psyched out and throwing on as much weight as possible and then just banging out reps.
In the beginning this is awesome but once you start repping 400-500lbs then it starts really hurting and I also think it gets dangerous so you start looking for different ways to keep them growing.
I think that leg curls and extensions should be used in every workout either as a warm up pre-exhaust in the beginning or a finisher at the end of your workout.
In the beginning I used to squat and then leg press but seldomly do that now its generally one or the other. I never hack squatted in the beginning but found I really like that now and do either leg press/hack squats or squats/hack squats.
I still believe in training heavy over anything so a 3-4 sets of 6-10 reps is going to be the norm. To be honest this rep range is what you will find most bodybuilders doing to be honest.
I believe with legs that you really have to beat the shit out of them to get great results. If you leave the gym on leg day walking normally to your car then you didn’t train hard enough. I’m damn near crippled for a few days after a proper leg day.
flat soled shoes help, esp when squatting heavy…there is no shittier feeling than feeling your ‘nike shocks’ squish while under the bar :S Proper rest is always a must with any training lol
I was also a catcher in baseball and I believe this built up quite a bit of strength in my legs, in high school I had no troubles with 365-405 for maxes which I know is nothing astounding that many kids can do that…but also not many kids can, and especially at a bodyweight of about 160-175lbs back then with my lanky frame I was proud of it.
Tear em up, feed em, rest em = growth. Its that simple in the end imo…
DG[/quote]
Thanks DG, really apreciated, gotta bust 'em for the inches!!!
Even though I cannot even begin to relate to your metabolism/genetics more info is always a good thing. Thanks for sharing Gerdy.
Even though I cannot even begin to relate to your metabolism or genetics, more information is always a good thing, thanks for sharing Gerdy
no problem man.
DG
Gerdy,
Have you always lifted using a once a week split or did you ever train with a higher frequency like on a upper/lower or push/pull split?
[quote]SquatDeep385 wrote:
Gerdy,
Have you always lifted using a once a week split or did you ever train with a higher frequency like on a upper/lower or push/pull split?[/quote]
I actually used to hit most bodyparts 2x per week but found the bigger I got the more I had to tear myself up and the more I took to recover to continue to make progress.
My original split was something like this (i often think about going back to it)
m-back/arms
t-legs
w-chest/shoulders
th-legs
friday-back/arms
the very next week would be the exact same except I would have chest/shoulders on mon/fri and back/arms on wed…
This only worked when I was doing nothing but training, eating, sleeping. No job, no school, etc makes it possible but when I started to ‘grow up’ and now have bills/responsibilities I don’t think I could handle that routine and still make progress.
DG