[quote]300andabove wrote:
Ah its good to see this ![/quote]
That man is my hero, lol. Monster weights with perfect form… and he plays the piano. That will be me in a few(well maybe 10) years. (sans piano, guitar for me)
[quote]Mr.Purple wrote:
300andabove wrote:
Ah its good to see this !
That man is my hero, lol. Monster weights with perfect form… and he plays the piano. That will be me in a few(well maybe 10) years. (sans piano, guitar for me)[/quote]
He’s also some math genius and whatnot.
I bet that, after he was born, the next 50 babies born all had an IQ of 12 for the rest of their lives because he got all the good traits and intelligence they should have gotten 
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
Mr.Purple wrote:
300andabove wrote:
Ah its good to see this !
That man is my hero, lol. Monster weights with perfect form… and he plays the piano. That will be me in a few(well maybe 10) years. (sans piano, guitar for me)
He’s also some math genius and whatnot.
I bet that, after he was born, the next 50 babies born all had an IQ of 12 for the rest of their lives because he got all the good traits and intelligence they should have gotten
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lmao, what a horrible thing to think.
Hey X,
I was just wondering how you log your workouts?
Do you just record your last workset and keep a record of those, or do you actually record your sets that ramp up to your workset as well?
[quote]Mahrexen wrote:
Hey X,
I was just wondering how you log your workouts?
Do you just record your last workset and keep a record of those, or do you actually record your sets that ramp up to your workset as well?[/quote]
No, let me ask you a question. Do you think the rest of this thread will now be filled with people logging on for the first time who are too lazy to read the thread so they ask questions already answered because they can’t be bothered to look back a few pages?
Perhaps it would be best if you started a new thread entitled, “Hey Prof X, I don’t feel like reading the other thread so can we start a new one where I ask the same questions…Oh, and can you email it to me so I don’t have to log in? Oh, and Cliff Notes would be appreciated.”
I will respond faster than light can travel because YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS AND WANTS are all that matter to me.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Mahrexen wrote:
Hey X,
I was just wondering how you log your workouts?
Do you just record your last workset and keep a record of those, or do you actually record your sets that ramp up to your workset as well?
No, let me ask you a question. Do you think the rest of this thread will now be filled with people logging on for the first time who are too lazy to read the thread so they ask questions already answered because they can’t be bothered to look back a few pages?
Perhaps it would be best if you started a new thread entitled, “Hey Prof X, I don’t feel like reading the other thread so can we start a new one where I ask the same questions…Oh, and can you email it to me so I don’t have to log in? Oh, and Cliff Notes would be appreciated.”
I will respond faster than light can travel because YOUR PERSONAL NEEDS AND WANTS are all that matter to me.[/quote]
You should change your avatar to some sign saying “no spoonfeeding allowed” or some such.
We all should
What would it take to get a snapshot of a week-in-the-training-life of Professor X?
You mentioned in the Beginner’s forum that your workouts are very brief which enables you to go daily. I’d be interested in reading what you do. Weekly split, exercise, set, reps, and % would be great!
Oh, and have you ever done anything like DJ’s One-Lift-a-Day?
Thanks in advance, either way.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
What would it take to get a snapshot of a week-in-the-training-life of Professor X?
You mentioned in the Beginner’s forum that your workouts are very brief which enables you to go daily. I’d be interested in reading what you do. Weekly split, exercise, set, reps, and % would be great!
Oh, and have you ever done anything like DJ’s One-Lift-a-Day?
Thanks in advance, either way. [/quote]
Great reference. +1 internet to you, sir 
I’d like to know more about this last exercise.
In your split…which you did write a while ago. you didn’t mention one for each bodypart. Chest and Biceps only.
DO you do it for every single bodypart?
How high are the reps in comparison to your first few “heavy” exercises?
Do you keep track of you progression on those as well?
Or are they even tht important…do you sometimes skip them if you feel the heavyexercises wehere enough that day?
[quote]Clown Face wrote:
I’d like to know more about this last exercise.
In your split…which you did write a while ago. you didn’t mention one for each bodypart. Chest and Biceps only.
DO you do it for every single bodypart?
How high are the reps in comparison to your first few “heavy” exercises?
Do you keep track of you progression on those as well?
Or are they even tht important…do you sometimes skip them if you feel the heavyexercises wehere enough that day?[/quote]
What exercise are you referring to?
My reps usually stay under 12, however even that varies lately as I try my best to get in “:a zone” so I don’t need to count reps at all and just go by feel.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Clown Face wrote:
I’d like to know more about this last exercise.
In your split…which you did write a while ago. you didn’t mention one for each bodypart. Chest and Biceps only.
DO you do it for every single bodypart?
How high are the reps in comparison to your first few “heavy” exercises?
Do you keep track of you progression on those as well?
Or are they even tht important…do you sometimes skip them if you feel the heavyexercises wehere enough that day?
What exercise are you referring to?
My reps usually stay under 12, however even that varies lately as I try my best to get in “:a zone” so I don’t need to count reps at all and just go by feel.
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I don’t count my reps either. Once i’m at the working weight (8-12 reps)i try to keep up with the beats of my music…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Clown Face wrote:
I’d like to know more about this last exercise.
In your split…which you did write a while ago. you didn’t mention one for each bodypart. Chest and Biceps only.
DO you do it for every single bodypart?
How high are the reps in comparison to your first few “heavy” exercises?
Do you keep track of you progression on those as well?
Or are they even tht important…do you sometimes skip them if you feel the heavyexercises wehere enough that day?
What exercise are you referring to?
My reps usually stay under 12, however even that varies lately as I try my best to get in “:a zone” so I don’t need to count reps at all and just go by feel.
[/quote]
Your last, “burn out” exercise"
[quote]Clown Face wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Clown Face wrote:
I’d like to know more about this last exercise.
In your split…which you did write a while ago. you didn’t mention one for each bodypart. Chest and Biceps only.
DO you do it for every single bodypart?
How high are the reps in comparison to your first few “heavy” exercises?
Do you keep track of you progression on those as well?
Or are they even tht important…do you sometimes skip them if you feel the heavyexercises wehere enough that day?
What exercise are you referring to?
My reps usually stay under 12, however even that varies lately as I try my best to get in “:a zone” so I don’t need to count reps at all and just go by feel.
Your last, “burn out” exercise"
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It doesn’t matter how many reps you do. It’s the last movement. I may not even do a “burn out exercise” most of the time, but if I do, the weight is lighter and the number of reps are irrelevant. The goal is to feel the muscle working, not to worry about calculus homework.
How do you perform any isolation work you do?
I’ll explain. Thib talks about how on an isolation movement you should flex the target muscle as hard as you can. But I have a feeling you don’t do that and just strive for weight increases.
What were/are your progression like on isolation movments compared to compound ones?
[quote]Clown Face wrote:
How do you perform any isolation work you do?
I’ll explain. Thib talks about how on an isolation movement you should flex the target muscle as hard as you can. But I have a feeling you don’t do that and just strive for weight increases.
What were/are your progression like on isolation movments compared to compound ones?[/quote]
Thib’s advice is for ADVANCED LIFTERS. I squeeze the muscle group more now when training biceps and even some back movements. However, if I were to claim that is how I got this big to begin with, that would be completely false. That only works for me now because I am using enough weight that even if drop the weight a little to concentrate on the movement more, I am still lifting more than most people ever do for those movements.
Some of you need to realize that simply because we say we do something one way now, that doesn’t mean that is how we ALWAYS DID IT. CT bulked up before. That is why he is as big as he is now. He may claim that his advice to others is to stay leaner BUT THAT ISN’T HOW HE GOT THAT BIG.
That is why looking at what people actually did and do in the gym to get big is way better than simply listening to a personal trainer who is trying to present a sweeping generalized training program to the masses that clearly won’t know how to bulk up correctly or use the information the right way. Look at how many newbs misunderstood his “10% article”.
So you peformed isolation movements like regular compound exercises…just trying to get the weight up?
Progression wise was it the same as compounds? you pick a weight and work up in reps. then increase the weight?
[quote]Clown Face wrote:
So you peformed isolation movements like regular compound exercises…just trying to get the weight up?
Progression wise was it the same as compounds? you pick a weight and work up in reps. then increase the weight?[/quote]
I don’t understand the confusion. THE GOAL IS TO FEEL THE MUSCLE WORKING…HOWEVER…SQUEEZING THE MUSCLE AT THE TOP OF EACH CONTRACTION IS WAY FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN FEELING A MUSCLE CONTRACTING AND NOT SIMPLY THROWING THE WEIGHT AROUND.
You didn’t ask previously about whether I was just trying to get the weight up. You asked about squeezing the muscle at the peak of contraction.
This is bodybuilding. The goal is NEVER to simply get the weight up.
Actually i meant flexing the target muscle throught the whole set…and not just the peak contraction. I was wondering whether you did that?
I think my choice of words was wrong.
I think i understand how you perform them.
[quote]Clown Face wrote:
Actually i meant flexing the target muscle throught the whole set…and not just the peak contraction. I was wondering whether you did that?
I think my choice of words was wrong.
I think i understand how you perform them. [/quote]
Dude, if you are lifting the weight, your muscle is already flexed through the movement. The times it isn’t would be in rest positions, like at the top of a curling movement. That is why people call that SQUEEZING THE MUSCLE AT THE PEAK OF CONTRACTION. You misunderstood what CT was talking about…and no, most bodybuilders don’t do that from day one. They seem to start working on that after they are already impressively built.
Tangent to the ongoing discussion perhaps; but for squats and bench and the like, you took your 1RM or 2RM and worked that weight up to 8-10 reps, correct? Did you ever try something similar for a smaller muscle group, like biceps or triceps? For example starting with a 3-rep BB curl and make that a 10-rep max, then add significant weight and start over at 2-3 reps.