That’s the infuriating thing about lifting sometimes. I screwed up my lower back doing romanian deadlifts at like 30% of my 1RM without using any effort and I still don’t know what I stupid thing I did that caused it.
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At least it wasn’t one of the 8kg ones. Imagine doing a 310kg deadlift in a commercial gym to the awe of onlookers and then throwing your back out when you go to move the 8kg kettlebell they use as a door stop.
How many communications of this type have you had.
According to journey to the west, one needs to endure 81 hardships to achieve nirvana
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Imma go all out and confess this is one of the most comical intros to a study I’ve ever come across. You can easily get the full study. by googling:
Influence of Resistance Training Frequency on Muscular Adaptations in Well-Trained
By Brad SchonenIdontgiveafuckwhathisnameis.
*recent survey of *127 competitive male
bodybuilders found that more than two-thirds of respondents trained each muscle group only
once per week (9). Moreover, none of the respondents trained a muscle group more than twice
weekly and every respondent reported employing a split-body routine."
This is where any sane person would go, “Hmmm… yeah guys, maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all…”
But then they went ahead anyway using a “bodypart split” that I’ve never ever seen any serious bodybuilder do in my life that looks like something an imbecile like Bret Contreassboy pulled out of his ample ass cos he’s so full of shit despite having 127 bodybuilders you could have gotten any brosplit from.
That’s all I’m gonna say.
FLAME FREE.
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I think I’m nearly there. All I need is some dumbass with lots of faith to carry me on his back and run directionless for a couple of days in order to reach heaven to finally find out heaven really isn’t a static entity.
As usual, South Park got it right too.
EDIT:
Wait, I think I got it mixed up with that HK fantasy version starring Dicky Cheung… whatever I can’t remember. There’ve been like different 100 adaptations of it by now.
This is my favorite version starring Stephen Chow:
Mandarin version with funny English subs:
Here’s what’s interesting, At the end of the movie half the chicks in the theater were CRYING.
Stephen Chow:
“Why do people keep saying I make comedies? My movies are all tragedies.”
This is why he’s a genius.
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Shaw isn’t British so he isn’t going to get as much airtime.
He gets more than his fair share on the other side of the pond which more than evens itself out IMO.
I confess I’ve missed the meaning of your post. Is that not a good bodybuilding split?
I think the point is that doing a study to highlight the effects of training frequency on results is totally irrelevant if all the participants are using pretty much the same frequency.
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My biggest gripe with WSM coverage is just the ratio of event to ‘other’ time.
I’ve been watching it every year since I was about 6, probably the show that got me into lifting, but seriously it frustrates me now.
They’ll show one head to head event, then give us the results of all the other guys followed by a 15 minute interview segment… Seriously? I wan’t to see all the guys pull the damn truck, not 2 of them followed by a segment on someone’s home life.
The worst part is when they don’t even show the event winner. Up next is Oberst and Hollands on the car deadlift, they have 14 reps to beat as the best so far, will they do it? No. Ok so not only did you not show all of the competitors, you didn’t even show the damn event winner! A show about feats of strength doesn’t show the greatest feat of strength! I wanted to see whichever monster lifted it 14 times lift it 14 times, not the guys placing 5 and 7 in the event plus what Mark Felix had for breakfast.
Rant over. For now.
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WSM has always been a TV show first and a sporting event second. If not third.
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Confession: I bought my 2nd car ever on Saturday, first time buying by myself and I fell into all of the sales pressure for extra stuff… Went to the credit union and dealership today and got a new contract, thankfully they aren’t shady because they had no legal obligation to change anything.
Confession 2: I bought a yaris, arguably more flame worthy than falling victim to used cars salesmen.
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This reveals you to be a sociopath without regard for given norms, puppy killer.
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That’s what my wife tells me at least once a month. 
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No argument about it. Did it come with vouchers for free Iced Lattes? 
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Ask people at the gym their split and you will find hardly anyone doing:
Day 1: Chest / Back
Day 2: Legs
Day 3: Arms
I confess that I just fought with a tape measure for a bit because I was looking for an excuse to delay my deadlift workout a little longer and I was curious at the size of my arms. Now I have to go deadlift and I was not pleasantly surprised with the measurement. Mondays, man.
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Didn’t even look that closely at the split.
But you’re right, day 2 should definitely have been another chest and biceps day.
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No argument. After reading up on some of the less than subtle ways they have helped / hindered competitors in order to get the result they desired it can not been seen as “fair”.
To say nothing of not allowing Kaz to compete because he was too good. But it also is a pretty cool argument for being the Greatest of All Time.
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