You’d be very surprised if you turned off that part of your brain that’s been told this and went in with new warmup schemes how you can push the limits in the same muscle group more than 1-day and make progress.
What makes you think I knew how to train in 1968? I started doing 3 sets of 10 reps with a 60lb barbell and did that on OHP, upright row, bent over rows, and standing curls. Plus 3 sets of 15 reps of leg raises from hanging position with back support to prevent swinging. I was told these were the exercises that the students that took a half semester of weight training were tested.
Once I could complete all 10 reps on all sets I increased to a 70lb barbell, and so forth.
I also continued my “gymnastics” playing.
How is that for a strategic weight training plan? BTW, I made steady progress and looked significantly better in the mirror. Basically, continuous positive reinforcement.
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@RT_Nomad you stuck with it and you added weight once you got 10reps. I never did that type of progression.
At age 11 i trained for several weeks, stopped because I didn’t know how to continue and lost interest.
I would do that several times from age 11-14 then I did no lifting whatsoever until about age 19 in which I did the same thing.
At age 20 I got the Arnold book and Flex mag then I started true progression stuff.
See, that’s the problem; you need to turn off your brain to even consider what you propose works.
I would need more evidence than some internet posts from a barely literate poster with the username cretin who espouses the steroid like effects of celery when taken as a suppository.
Even now you still do shit like 1rm training, but for hypertrophy.
So did learning not occur or..?
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Did you have your brain completely turned off?
Doesn’t simple common sense tell you progressive training is a logical path to increased strength and muscle size?
Then again, I always said that most people’s IQ drops 50 points as soon as they enter the weight room.
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@Andrewgen_Receptors get your note pad out and take a seat…….
Take your 1-rep max and lift it 10-consecutive sessions or so, skipping a week here and there is fine, add pound every time.
You have now lifted your max 10-times in a couple months and added 10# to that lift=
Way better hypertrophy wise than adding 10# to your max and lifting it for just 1-session, 1-time in 2-months.
Plus I also do progression in 10reps and higher as well!
@RT_Nomad my first day of school in 1st grade I walked in, observed the rest of the students who seemed to understand what to do there, I had no clue.
I don’t even think I ever really kept track of what weights I was even lifting, I just grabbed a bar and began doing reps. When I got my set I started to keep some tabs on the weights but I was very distracted and such and I lost focus very quickly. I’d do this lifting for several weeks realized I’m not become Lou the Hulk and just stop.
I had zero mentors growing up, if anything everyone around me told me I’d get hurt doing that and I believed them. I did have back problems as a teenager in which I had a labor job. Even then at the job I was fascinated by lifting 5gal ink buckets and such and I’d lift them until my back was aching and I was in pain every night.
What is a mentor? My dad worked all day every day of the week except an occasional Sunday. Who needs mentors? Man up! You be your own mentor. My dad modeled a great work ethic. He didn’t mentor me. He modeled what a good work ethic is. No one helped me do anything in the weight room. No one encouraged me. No one cared whether I made progress or not. I did it for ME! Man up! Quit making excuses. Maybe someone feels sorry for you. I don’t.
Closest thing to a mentor was a close friend said that I should start lifting weights. And that was the end of that.
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@RT_Nomad whats done is done that was when I was 11, what’s your point in saying man up???
BTW, you had someone tell you to start lifting weights and you followed???
No one encouraged me at all. I wanted to do it because I was fascinated by pumping iron on TV, particularly Lou because he was also the Hulk. But I just lost interest.
I was merely explaining that yes I was very dumb, I didn’t understand much of anything at all. As I said, all the kids in school seemed to understand what they did there and they all seemed to have some social behaviors, I had none of that. I had no siblings lived in a small home in the woods. I moved to the city limits right before 1st grade. All I knew how to do was play on a ground because I had a swingset in the country. That’s what made me almost accepted, but when it came to social behavior I was always mocked and laughed at. Kinda like here.
If you aren’t trolling, you may be literally retarded.
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So Lou encouraged you.
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For how many decades have you floundered around until you discovered you new method of making gains? You started floundering at 11. How many more years did you flounder? Well past puberty, right? And those years are your excuse?
My friend said that I should start lifting weights. I didn’t follow him to the weight room. I ventured in there on my own, feeling like most everyone does their first trip in the weight room, like a duck out of water.
I am an only child. I wasn’t raised expecting that I would get any support for anything I tried.
About 20years I floundered. I did actually compete in strongman for 5-years, from age 25-30 I got a second place finish one year and qualified for nationals, didn’t go to that. The first comp I ever did I got last place, and moved up a place every contest. I did about 15 comps in those 5-years. The last 2-years I was a 3-4place finisher at every one. My gym lifts were very poor. I was a good tire flipper, famers carrier, yoke, carries and conan’s wheel. Always top 3 in the field.
One thing that I like about this forum is that it’s pretty good about holding people accountable to prove their claims, but once they do, they’re taken seriously. Pics, video, links to records, whatever you decide to throw out.
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No thanks. It’s not like I was any champion. 2nd place in the regionals isn’t ground breaking after several years trying and only doing it ONCE.
Besides I post vids now of training.
I lifted in my journal with a vid of me doing a 400# lift that’s very similar to picking up a atlas stone, as far as the position goes. No, it does not mean I can lift a 400# atlas stone, but yes 280# last time I tried many many years ago.
I would vote for heavier fork curls!
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You really think you’re in a position to give advice?
In your own words…
I’m with @zecarlo thinking you’re actually retarded.
Its scary when the retard reaches for the microphone, but thanks to warning labels, you’re allowed to spread your message regardless.
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@Andrewgen_Receptors dont kid yourself my post had nothing to do with advice.
I replied to your comment about 1-rep maxing for hypertrophy, I supplied the math for you.
It’s not advice to take literally when I say “take your 1-rep max”.
I’m not interested at all in trying or thinking to give advice. I go my own way and that’s my opinion on how everyone should go. I’m an anti cookie cutter.