[quote]Harry Flashman wrote:
Any 20 rep squating programme.The last time I did it with significant weight,suffered lower back spasms which necessitated lying down for 10 -15 mins post squat.As a warning I will add that my lower back has never been the same since.Sets took about 3 mins,maybe I was doing them wrong?[/quote]
Wow, basically the exact same thing happened to me, and am still working on fixing the back, almost four years later (had ART yesterday).
My toughest was Max Effort box squats 1 inch below
then did 4 sets of 8 speed-squater squats with hardly anything in my hands.
I skipped the PC excersise and threw up.
roofing houses one summer. any day the guys would say " we don’t need the hoist ladder today. we’ve got that pretty-boy swivel. " they always said that when it was 3 stories. i’ve never tasted beer so good as after those days.
[quote]swivel wrote:
roofing houses one summer. any day the guys would say " we don’t need the hoist ladder today. we’ve got that pretty-boy swivel. " they always said that when it was 3 stories. i’ve never tasted beer so good as after those days.[/quote]
I agree. Roofing houses isn’t for the weak of heart, especially carrying bags of shingles up a ladder.
[quote]bikemike wrote:
MikeTheBear wrote:
hueyOT wrote:
supermick wrote:
bikemike wrote:
Believe it or not, it was the last arm workout in the bigger arm challenge:
weighted 20lbs chin
50 seconds up, 40 seconds down;
curls 11 reps with 60 lbs;
weighted 20 lbs negative only chin
5, then dropped the weight and did 4 more.
weighted 20 lbs dip
45 seconds up, 20 seconds down;
extensions 8 reps with 35 lbs;
weighted 20 lbs negative only dip
4, then dropped the weight and did 4 more.
It was craziness.
Lol…
i know… how fucking stupid does it get? bigger arms in two weeks? only if you’ve never trained them before!
I almost thought I was going to agree with hueyOT for once, but my fears were allayed. I do think that a person can make a visible change in his or her physique in two weeks - just not with that particular program. A high frequency program such as Quattro Dynamo would probably work. But four workouts won’t cut it.
My apologies for this being completely off topic.
The bigger arm challenge was a two week experiment. A break from normal workout routines. You guys haven’t a clue how we regularly workout.[/quote]
lol.
“we”? okay there secret squirrel…
One set of 500 rep body weight squats, right before 2 hrs. of jujitsu. I slept for about 13 hrs that night. Also first time doing GVT 10x10 on squats I yacked during set 9.(I felt like a pussy, but other people thought it was hard core.) Thanks Chucky Poliquin.
Meltdown I .
The pullup/squat/pushup/deadlift combo in Meltdown is the only workout that has made me vomit. Worst ever was in the middle of the final set of deadlifts in the rotation. I was on rep #4 (of ten). I had just locked the weight out. I proceeded to drop the bar, turn to the side, and puke my guts out. Tough-bastard that I am, I actually finished my set.
/No, I am not tough. But having one ot the strongest guys in the gym as my training partner helps.
//Same thing happened on rep 8 the next week, but I had a bucket next to the rack.
For some reason, every time I went near the power rack for the next month, everyone left that corner of the gym. I also received a request from the manager to “Please never do that workout again, or at least eat something more colorful next time” (he was cool).
try 20 rep squats with supersetting dips,chins, barbell rows, and leg ligts on a bench with weight. thats pretty hard tired after that… at least for me its hard i just turned 16
[quote]Sxio wrote:
When I was doing HIT stuff with a guy I used to work with.
I thought my heart was going to beat right out of my chest. Great stuff![/quote]
I love that feeling in a sick way. Nothing like it.
[quote]mica617 wrote:
Getting up hay when I was 15 in 100 degree heat. Worse than ANY gym workout I ever had. Throwing bales 6-8 high gets tough around bale number 400, but you still have to finish the field and keep up with the trailer. Any of you who ever did farm work know what I’m talking about.[/quote]
Haying is for sure a hard ass workout. Some of the best physical activity is on the farm. Training angry horses really gets the upper body pumped like a mutha while working on pain tolerance. Talk about GPP. My favorite job on the farm is burying animals/ digging fence poles manualy.
Joining steel with a sledge is some hard work too.
[quote]swivel wrote:
roofing houses one summer. any day the guys would say " we don’t need the hoist ladder today. we’ve got that pretty-boy swivel. " they always said that when it was 3 stories. i’ve never tasted beer so good as after those days.[/quote]
i agree…took off our old roof and put on a new one about a month ago…one of the hardest things i’ve ever done…
[quote]X-Factor wrote:
back squat 10 sets
front squat 10 sets
sldl 10 sets
bulgarian squats 10 sets
lunges 10 sets
leg press 10 sets
leg extension 10 sets
leg curl 10 sets
and then I think I got about 8 sets of calves. [/quote]
As if anyone would do this! That has to be the dumbest workout I have ever seen. Were you spending the whole day at the gym?
[quote]BoxBabaX wrote:
You guys haven’t a clue how we regularly workout.
lol.
“we”? okay there secret squirrel…
[/quote]
It’s plural - squirrels. And I guess they’re not a secret anymore.
mine was:
4sets of wide-grip pulldowns supersetted with 4 sets close-grip pulldowns - using same weight
4 sets close-grip cable rows supersetted with 4 sets dumbell rows
4 sets wide-grip chins
4 sets of one-arm hammer strength rows
4 sets wide-grip barbell rows
4 sets dealdifts
*the goal for everything was 4-10reps all to failure. Did that workout twice and never again after that.
24x400 in HS…
I was damn proud after being put through that idiocy.
[quote]jsbrook wrote:
Not a lifting workout. But 16x400 for track. Fast intervals. Adequate recovery but you’re still ready to puke by the end. And I have several times.[/quote]
Ouch! That’s one cruel track coach you must have had.
I’ve heard of another interval training workout that is popular with some of the professional Australian Football teams over here in their pre-season training. It’s called the “Hundred 100’s”, which is sprinting 100m 100 times, 10,000 metres of pure pain! Pyschologically the players have to try and comparmentalise the “reps” into sets of 10 as mini-goals to reach. Apparently when you’re at set 20 and have 80 to go it’s too daunting to go on!
Personally, completing a triathalon was one of the hardest things I’ve done. I spent 15 minutes at the end trying not to throw up, changing between disciplines just did weird things to me!
[quote]tora no’ shi wrote:
swivel wrote:
roofing houses one summer. any day the guys would say " we don’t need the hoist ladder today. we’ve got that pretty-boy swivel. " they always said that when it was 3 stories. i’ve never tasted beer so good as after those days.
i agree…took off our old roof and put on a new one about a month ago…one of the hardest things i’ve ever done…[/quote]
These posts just reminded me of the time I was remodelling the back garden two years ago. I had to move 1 tonne (metric) of blue metal gravel and about 8 cubic metres (about 10 tonne) of new soil from the front of the house to the back with just a wheel barrow.
I wasn’t able to start moving the soil until the Saturday afternoon and had to have it finished by the Sunday afternoon otherwise I would not have been able to get my car out of the garage to get to work on the Monday. I was literally running the barrow down the side path to gain time.
Oh yeah, I also had to beat a thunderstorm that was rolling in on the Sunday, I’d just finished when the rain started bucketing down. Best GPP workout I’ve done,LOL!
I did this for a month,and damn it worked well…but unless you can take pain with the best of them dont do it
20 reps on leg curl
increase weight by 20 pounds and do 15
increase that wiehgt by 50 pounds and do 10
Then go straight to squats and do the same thing
repeat once.
I dropped after i finished and was sucking air for 20 mins,but damn did my legs grow
[quote]MikeTheBear wrote:
The Smolov Squat Routine. I couldn’t finish it. No pukey feelings during the workouts necessarily, but by the end of the week I just felt trashed. [/quote]
I second that motion. I honestly think that the program is impossible to perform without “help”. The crazy russians who advocated that program were certainly juiced to the max. I’m sure some out there have completed it with the proper loading, and God bless you if you did.
This was posted on bodybuilding.com a few years ago and is still there. It’s called the I.C.E. training program. The leg day consisted of:
4X10 double drop set leg extensions,
Weight: ???
4X20 barbell squats, Weight: 235
4X12 Dumbell St Leg Deadlifts,
Weight: 110 lb dumbells
4X10 Leg Curl, Weight: ???
I did this for 7 weeks and noticed no improvement, only a lot of trouble walking for three or four days after each workout. I was just starting out and would never do anything that stupid again.