anyone else have trouble viewing these vids? They appear completely pixelated to me. Even when I use youtube to view them.
This happens occasionally but I don’t know why.
These videos make me want to use his training methods so badly, but i know i don’t have the recuperation abilities to keep taking those compound moves to that degree of muscle failure.
Did/Dorian really train like that? Only 1 set to Failure
[quote]optheta wrote:
Did/Dorian really train like that? Only 1 set to Failure[/quote]
Watch his clips on youtube and decide for yourself how many sets he did.
[quote]MeinHerzBrennt wrote:
anyone else have trouble viewing these vids? They appear completely pixelated to me. Even when I use youtube to view them.
This happens occasionally but I don’t know why.[/quote]
Update your video card drivers
And I really enjoyed this videos i like the way he trains people he can push you with out pushing you.
So i tried that Back routine in the video and replaced 1 excerise(had to use soemthing else to keep the rest short). And ended around 35minutes, i think i may even taken longer rests couple of times :P. That seems awefully short to be training. Am i doing something wrong or is that in general how long dorian trains?
I’ve seen all the blood and guts stuff countless times. He’s said himself he beat himself up too much sometimes, and he could have avoided a lot of the injuries he did if he trained a little smarter. If you were training with him over your shoulder, you probably wouldn’t question how long the workout was. He’s all about the intensity, time doesnt really matter when you’re busting your balls as hard as he used to. In fact, you’ll be wishing for it to finish!
One of the few British names to make it big in anything strength/size related.
[quote]optheta wrote:
So i tried that Back routine in the video and replaced 1 excerise(had to use soemthing else to keep the rest short). And ended around 35minutes, i think i may even taken longer rests couple of times :P. That seems awefully short to be training. Am i doing something wrong or is that in general how long dorian trains?[/quote]
The rest-periods are mentioned in the vids man.
Is it really so important that you spend exactly the same amount of time as dorian did in the gym every training day? He used a somewhat different exercise selection anyway and maybe did a warm-up more (or less) here and there and whatever… And if he took 45 mins to finish a session, so what? He did lift a lot more weight than you are likely using now, so he probably rested a little longer (or whatever).
The routine in the vids is just an example…
so i’ve decided to start mimicking some Dorian ideology in my training.
trained chest the other day with just four exercises, e.g. four different working sets to failure and beyond w/ the help of a partner.
my #'s were up, i went 10lbs heavier than i’ve gone previously on incline DB presses for example. i got 7 reps on my own and 1.5 reps w/ help thereafter, after two warm up sets at 50-60% of my 1RM. Psychologically it was easier to get the working set and kill it because i knew volume wise i was done, i didn’t have the thoughts of 3-4 heavy working sets, e.g. i didn’t pace myself as Dorian would say.
overall i was happy w/ my workout, trained back in this fashion as well tonight. the most challenging aspect is to walk away, to say that exercise is done, no pump sets, no flushing sets, no drop set finish. done is done is difficult. nice strength/psychological edge knowing “i’m putting it all in this set, 6-8 reps till i fail.” we’ll see how it goes, going to stick w/ this style for a month or two.
been leaning out just from macro adjustments down from 220 to 205, during these workouts i will carb load up front and peri just to help strength and gas tank.
Cyrus, try doing this heavy and all-out for 3 cycles (don’t go overboard on the intensity techniques though man), then one light cycle (pick some landmark weight and go high rep on it, not to failure, if you get a rep PR nice, if not, no matter). Seems to work much better than going at it for 6-8 weeks and taking one off fully or something like that… So pick a nice goal to reach at the end of your next 3 heavy cycles, then relax for a cycle, and repeat.
Really controlling the negative is important on this too, else you’re probably going to get stuck fairly quick.
thanks, C_C will do…after 3 i’ll coast a week so to speak w/ a high rep marker as my goal, on that coast week should a increase the volume of sets? your opinion? or one working i rep set just short of failure.
i’ll keep an eye on my negatives too, it seem Dorian really pushes the importance of a Full proper rep eccentric and concentric. i’ve been on the fence lately about my goals but it’s clear this type of training needs calories to support the muscle/neuro taxation.
thank you for your input, tracking progress seems very motivating e.g. x reps w/ y weight for this weeks working set…goal to beat it DC style.
cheers
[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
thanks, C_C will do…after 3 i’ll coast a week so to speak w/ a high rep marker as my goal, on that coast week should a increase the volume of sets? your opinion? or one working i rep set just short of failure. [/quote]I’d not increase the volume tbh… That cycle is just there to keep you from stalling out early on the heavy cycles… Basically to break up your training year into smaller segments… 3 cycles to reach a short term goal, little break, on to next goal.
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i’ll keep an eye on my negatives too, it seem Dorian really pushes the importance of a Full proper rep eccentric and concentric. i’ve been on the fence lately about my goals but it’s clear this type of training needs calories to support the muscle/neuro taxation.
[/quote] Yeah, if you’re cutting definitely be careful. [quote]
thank you for your input, tracking progress seems very motivating e.g. x reps w/ y weight for this weeks working set…goal to beat it DC style.
cheers[/quote]
Have fun man, this kind of things is great if you have a training partner to push you.
It’s nice to see a Mr. Olympia that can speak clearly and has an intelligent comprehension about his sport. There’s so much solid basic information in these videos. I’m lovin the music too.