That article isn’t so much a program in and of itself as it is a formula for building your own program, so it may or may not be sufficient depending on how you end up putting it together. From the looks of it, though, you’d have to be deliberately trying to avoid working any given muscle group more than once per week to avoid such overlap, so you’re probably fine.
Are you a competitor, dt?
No, that’s why I kept my mouth shut. Are you really intending to start a debate on this?
Then you see the problem here. A non-competitor advising someone to only take the advice of competitors is contradicting himself.
You’re contradicting yourself.
If you live in the real world, it is basic common sense. Seriously, what is there to argue?
ok I am going to start a log, I’ll include pics and possible routine and diet info. look out for it @dt79
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If I were @pitbull97, I’d take a look at @BrickHead’s photos in this thread: Leaning Out/Contest Prep Thread - #386 by BrickHead and @robstein’s photos in this thread: Rob's Road to Hercules: Contest Prep - #285 by robstein, compare them to @RyuuKyuzo’s photos in this current thread, and then decide whose advice I wanted to take.
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That’s really good advice considering Brick and I are monozygotic twins who’ve been lifting for the same amount of time.
Besides that line of reasoning being self-contradictory and an appeal to authority fallacy? Nothing, I guess.
I guess thats why you posted your pictures here in the first place.
Honestly, I think you look good. Solid physique for sure. But the reality is that you DON’T look like a physique competitor or bodybuilder. This is very likely because you don’t train like a physique competitor. This is perfectly fine, until you start telling prospective physique competitors how to train, and arguing with actual physique competitors/ bodybuilders (who actually DO look like physique competitors/ bodybuilders) about how their way of training is inefficient at making people look like physique competitors/ bodybuilders. It honestly just doesn’t make sense.
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Just posted my log beginning for anyone who wants to follow along over there
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I look forward to following your training/prep/log thread, sir.
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@pitbull97 just one thing I’d like to chime in with.
I do hit lagging body parts twice/week to increase muscle protein synthesis with a 6 day split vs 3 full body days.
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In that case, you don’t need squats and deadlifts
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I wouldn’t skip squats, solely for the hormonal effects of it. Deadlifts you can probably do without, but I did deadlift up until my contest prep began this past June. Some of the older guy’s didn’t see much out of them. Maybe because I’m younger I did, and they may do the same for you.
Thank you, I plan on keeping both movements in my training, I love them too much to get rid of them @MoreMuscle
No problem. But the most important part about getting big for a show, is eating big of course! Without that all the training in the world can only do so much. Looking forward to following your log.
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I don’t know what these people look like or their height/weight/bodyfat%, so… maybe?
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Lol
Lots of crap being slung in this thread. I’m on my phone while waiting for the baby to fall asleep, so you guys won’t get much detail out of me, but this looks like every other crap thread on BBing.com where a guy who put in a few lbs tries to educate those who are well beyond him in progress, education and experience. That’s why I stopped posting there. When some 19 old punk who had put in a few lbs told me I didn’t know what I was talking about I realized I was wasting my time even replying to him.
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I appreciate you at least checking the thread out @The_Mighty_Stu
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I have never appealed to authority. It is a very simple line of reasoning:
Kid wants to be a physique competitor. Building oneself up to eventually compete is a long term lifestyle consisting of various factors which, apart from training, include objective assessments of physique and ongoing advice on diet. Thus, people who have done what he is intending to do are most qualified to give advice and guidance along the way.
How is this not common sense?
To echo what the more sensible posters have said here: there are people posting in this thread who have actually been where you are now and have gotten to where you want to go, and there are those who have not, but have read a lot of articles and formed an opinion from there.
If you’re smart, and I think you are, then you’ll listen to the former.
Best of luck with it all; I’ll be checking in to your log
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