I was pretty impressed by Arnie’s very strict pressing of what must be over 100lbs for reps. I’m sure he was moving scary weight for those biceps back in the day but pretty impressive for a 70+ year old
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inb4 fake weight
I tell people you need to curl more weight while lifting the weight with your biceps if you want to get bigger biceps and nowadays it’s, “No! Pump training! Pump training!”.
This “pump training” idea is something that started in good sense since you normally will feel the muscle pumped up if you’re hitting it properly but dumbasses, as usual, have taken it to extremes.
Of course if you’re doing “cheat curls” without the part where you actually curl you’re still gonna stay small. That doesn’t mean you should suddenly go lift the pink dumbbells for 100 reps with a 10 second negative without any focus on some form of progression.
Trainers will definitely encourage you to do it because people want to FEEL immediate results. I liken it to making you do a 1RM every workout for whatever they call strength training just to feel like you’re getting STRONG. If you’re all pumped up, of course you’re going to feel like you did a great workout. Fuck you’re doing so much growing your size s t-shirt that you claim is a size m is going to explode at the seams!
“Pump training” is now a dumb term that should just die.
Flame free. I repeat, flame free.
I thnk the average curl bar is around 25lb, so I make that 115 + biscuits. Very impressive
Dude. It isn’t worth it.
Like all things - it was a great idea and people forgot that it is part of the picture. Not the whole thing.
Remember when to get stronger you had to use kettle bells?
FYI Matt Kroc used pump training if you check out the online training records. One big strength move, then 3-4 movements for really high reps.
If I remember it correctly - one of his bench work outs was:
Bench - work up to 4-6 reps for a set or two:
Press - 4 sets of 10
Pec deck - sets of 20
Triceps - sets of 20.
It lacks imagination. But its effective.
Sometimes you got to do what you got to do. I want to be big and strong and that’s 30 grams of QUALITY protein right there.
Confession:
After saying that I fear I’m turning into @T3hPwnisher.
We used to just call them “finishers” lol. Shit, I do it all the time. Get some bloodflow, good for joints; less technically demanding exercises focusing on isolating and fully fatiguing on the target muscle. Improves MMC.
Now it’s a training methodology. It’s absurdity on so many levels.
And to clarify, doing high reps isn’t “pump training”. It’s just training with high reps. The intent is still to take that 225lb squat for 20 reps to 315lbs for 20 reps.
I mean, seriously, this is all common sense. People just over complicate shit and follow dogma and methodologies that come and go like there’s somehow some magical way to train.
Thats one of the few things I agree with to a point… being explosive is a born trait. The most you can hope for is maximizing what you have.
But I disagree with the majority of this above.
Indeed, but with one nauseating twist -
Arnold’s 73 years old. 73!
I trained in the same gym as Reg Park from 1992 until 2002, when he was 74 years old, and I can confirm that he was also a big, strong sonovabitch even at that age.
Life goals…
I always have found it hilarious when some so call authority… spews about their group breaking approach. Which is nothing more then a slightly modified version of something someone else was doing 50 years ago.
I’d go with canned tomatoes vs the sauce personally, but it does sound like something I’d do. Running Building the Monolith, I was just dipping them in sugar free BBQ sauce so that they’d slide down faster.
@dt79 dropping straight up knowledge. Always a fan when you talk training. And hell, one of my favorite ways to train biceps is Poundstone curls, but even THEN, you’re getting like a full body curl workout out of it.
My confession is, with the advent of “keto friendly bread”, I am now fairly certain I could live the rest of my life eating almond butter sandwiches for every meal and have zero issues with it. I’ve taken to making that my dinner most nights, counting it toward my “supplemental fats”.
Should have dipped them in olive oil !!
I was already taking in a LOT of fat with that diet, haha.
I love eggs pretty much anyway I can get them EXCEPT hard boiled and cold. Like, freshly boiled they’re fine, but once you put them in the fridge and take them out they’re awful. Deviled eggs being an obvious exception. Occasionally, while running BtM, the Mrs would make me a scramble, and it was amazing.
Of course, part of the issue is that I was eating them hard boiled cold because my wife can’t STAND whenever I make eggs, because (in a complete shock to no one) I don’t care how they look or smell and will just throw a bunch of crap into a frying pan and make what I call an omelette but what anyone else would call an abomination. So she’d cook eggs for me as part of a peace treaty wherein I wouldn’t cook them around her.
That’s one of my favourite ways to eat them. Just sprinkle salt in and away you go.
My dad used to do that, I could never bring myself to eat them cold.
I hear baking the eggs whole gets you superior results to boiling if you need to cool them - maybe one day haha
Convenient, but not as palatable to me, haha. But that’s exactly why I was eating them that way: just to get my 12 in.
I am the same with grilled chicken. After eating it every meal for weeks it becomes really hard to stomach it. I have to cover it or chilli or bbq sauce. Makes me wonder what came first ?
A thin layer of homemade mayonnaise then a layer of salt and now were talking.
My pre comp weight cut diet is 16 eggs a day, just like this and nothing else. Its only for 3-4 days but even then I don’t get tired of them.
