When you say you would add a plate to each side once you hit 10 reps and get about 1-2 reps, would you then stay at that weight until you got 10 reps again? Doesn’t it take a long time to make your 1-2RM and make it your 10RM?
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Prof. X I noticed you mention your chest routine a few times but what do you currently do (and what did you used to do) for your legs? I’m even more interested considering they’ve been up to 31in. do you/did you squat heavy or depend mainly on other things?[/quote]
When they measured their biggest, I was mostly just focusing on leg presses.
My current routine is different than I’ve done before. I start with calf raises, then leg extensions and then about 8-9sets of hack squats using the machines designed like the one above (I go up by one plate a side after each set usually starting with two a side). I find I can go very heavy and very deep on these and my legs seem to be shaped better lately.
I then do a few sets of leg curls and then limp out of the gym looking stupid because my legs are too pumped for me to walk straight.
[quote]SquatDeep385 wrote:
When you say you would add a plate to each side once you hit 10 reps and get about 1-2 reps, would you then stay at that weight until you got 10 reps again? [/quote]
Yes.
[quote]
Doesn’t it take a long time to make your 1-2RM and make it your 10RM?[/quote]
Once I started moving over 400lbs, it took years.
I have one of those machines in my gym. Do you usually position yourself to face the back pad, or have it supporting your back?
[quote]Der Candy wrote:
I have one of those machines in my gym. Do you usually position yourself to face the back pad, or have it supporting your back?[/quote]
I have it support my back…and the one we have is way better than the one in the picture. The platform you stand on is curved making the arc of movement more natural.
I usually go down as low as I can.
It is made to hold more plates than most.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Der Candy wrote:
I have one of those machines in my gym. Do you usually position yourself to face the back pad, or have it supporting your back?
I have it support my back…and the one we have is way better than the one in the picture. The platform you stand on is curved making the arc of movement more natural.
I usually go down as low as I can.
It is made to hold more plates than most.
[/quote]
god damn you’re big mofo…I would be scared shitless if I went to get a tooth pulled and you walked in, i’d be like “wtf is this? prisoner exchange with the dental clinic?”
[quote]Professor X wrote:
When they measured their biggest, I was mostly just focusing on leg presses.
My current routine is different than I’ve done before. I start with calf raises, then leg extensions and then about 8-9sets of hack squats using the machines designed like the one above (I go up by one plate a side after each set usually starting with two a side). I find I can go very heavy and very deep on these and my legs seem to be shaped better lately.
I then do a few sets of leg curls and then limp out of the gym looking stupid because my legs are too pumped for me to walk straight.[/quote]
Ok I’m seriously considering doing something along those lines to be honest. My legs have been the same size for awhile and my squat sucks. I don’t think I should stop squatting but I do want to focus more on leg press and hack squat too. I have that machine at my gym too but the angle/set up makes me use way less than how much you see most people do on traditional hack squats
[quote]Professor X wrote:
SquatDeep385 wrote:
When you say you would add a plate to each side once you hit 10 reps and get about 1-2 reps, would you then stay at that weight until you got 10 reps again?
Yes.
Doesn’t it take a long time to make your 1-2RM and make it your 10RM?
Once I started moving over 400lbs, it took years.[/quote]
wow that long? I guess you must use those other techniques that you were talking about for progress often
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Once I started moving over 400lbs, it took years.[/quote]
There’s a lesson here somewhere!!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
SquatDeep385 wrote:
When you say you would add a plate to each side once you hit 10 reps and get about 1-2 reps, would you then stay at that weight until you got 10 reps again?
Yes.
Doesn’t it take a long time to make your 1-2RM and make it your 10RM?
Once I started moving over 400lbs, it took years.[/quote]
Ahh, so was that your basic mode of progression? Starting with a 1-2 rep max and eventually making it your 10 rep max?
X,
I was wondering, how do you sleep at night? On your back, your stomach, or in the fetal position? Do you alternate sides so as not to build imbalences?
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
X,
I was wondering, how do you sleep at night? On your back, your stomach, or in the fetal position? Do you alternate sides so as not to build imbalences?[/quote]
lmao…I’m crying…
[quote]rainjack wrote:
GriffinC wrote:
Like he said before, certain things work for him that don’t work for others. I guess he finds that these things produce better results. He has the results to show for, so I guess it’s just personal preference.
What in the FUCK are you doing answering for ProfX?
I’m sure he needs an 18 year old punk kid that is fond of swallowing Tube Steaks going to bat for him. Especially an ‘athlete’ like you.[/quote]
Bully.
Actually…ignore my last post, considering I never look at dates…
x, what kind of protien shakes do u drink out of curiosity
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
X,
I was wondering, how do you sleep at night? On your back, your stomach, or in the fetal position? Do you alternate sides so as not to build imbalences?[/quote]
I actually sleep standing up. It has taken years for me to learn how to sleep with my eyes open and over a decade to learn how to hold a .45 with the safety off WITHOUT shooting anyone by accident.
I’ve lost quite a few girlfriends that way.
[quote]crod266 wrote:
x, what kind of protien shakes do u drink out of curiosity [/quote]
Either the Lean Body RTDs or their protein shakes mixed myself.
I’m lactose intolerant and that is the only brand I’ve tried that causes ZERO problems in that area.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
crod266 wrote:
x, what kind of protien shakes do u drink out of curiosity
Either the Lean Body RTDs or their protein shakes mixed myself.
I’m lactose intolerant and that is the only brand I’ve tried that causes ZERO problems in that area.[/quote]
o ok i see, i cud see the rtd’s getting a bit expensive after u have 3-4 a day haha
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It has taken years for me to learn how to sleep with my eyes open and over a decade to learn how to hold a .45 with the safety off WITHOUT shooting anyone by accident.
I’ve lost quite a few girlfriends that way.[/quote]
By shooting them? Bummer! 
hey prof,
have you ever had times where you felt that your muscle groups where not healed enough and so they got hit less than 1x a week?
For example say that my ‘scheduled’ shoulder day is supposed to be day after tomorrow, but my tris and shoulders are sore still. Should I train them tomorrow anyway or give them an extra day of rest even if that means that chest will be pushed to next week?
EG I usually train as such:
Monday - off
Tuesday - chest/tri
wed - legs
thur - off
fri - shoulders
sat - off
sun - back/bi
so today is wednesday and my shoulders and tris are brutally sore. Should I rest them longer and do them on sat/sun even if that means that the other muscle groups would be pushed back? I know that I can probably squeeze all the workouts on following days so that I have no off days for the next 5 days, but hypothetically. Have you ever had teh experience that you pushed teh workouts back a day or so because a muscle group was not fully recovered for their workout and so you trained everything on a slightly lower frequency?
[quote]hardgnr wrote:
HolyMacaroni wrote:
X,
I was wondering, how do you sleep at night? On your back, your stomach, or in the fetal position? Do you alternate sides so as not to build imbalences?
lmao…I’m crying…[/quote]
Well… Sleep on your shoulder while weighing a lot/being very muscular and chances are you’re going to end up with nerve damage at some point/nerve impingement and atrophy of that side’s arm/lat.
Happens to a lot of big guys, actually.
Some very prominent examples out there.
In which position(s) you sleep and pillow placement and all that is no laughing matter for large people, and neither is sleep apnea.