Thibs, a quick yes or no will do, but I would appreciate comments: Can I combine the 5/3/1 program recently added on here with your forearm specialization routine ( Strength Training, Bodybuilding & Online Supplement Store - T NATION )?
[quote]Loui.s wrote:
Thibs, a quick yes or no will do, but I would appreciate comments: Can I combine the 5/3/1 program recently added on here with your forearm specialization routine ( Strength Training, Bodybuilding & Online Supplement Store - T NATION )?[/quote]
Yes, not a problem at all.
[quote]michell wrote:
Coach
I have a tail under position in the bottom portion of my squat. I love this exercise and I donāt want avoid to it of my planning. I do some stretches of psoas and some drills for glutes. But I feel my hams and glutes are still lagged respect to quads although my lower back curve has improved slightly.
Do you have a guideline to correct this issue?
Thanks
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Itās might simply be a technical issue or a muscle imbalance one. Iād suggest rotating the style of squat you are doing to include wide stance squats (powerlifting style) as itās a more glute-dominant movement. I also suggest working sumo deadlifts in your program.
[quote]talmid91 wrote:
So when will the new program launch. Iām like a kid waiting for Christmas morning over here.[/quote]
Probably September
Thib, what can cause a lateral hip shift when coming out of the whole in squats?
Thy
just FYI and I am sure CT would agree if you are having a lateral hip shift look at your glutes
(specifically the glute medius) Look up what is called a glute medius lurch or sometihing along the lines of a ālurchā that may be what is going on, but it could also be a dozen other things. that is where I would begin
I had it a long time ago and as a result developed some medial knee pain. I strengthend the glutes and the shift went away.
hope thatās ok I suggested that coach
If not sorry
Hi Coach
You have previously written about your admiration for Vince Girondaās training philosophy. I have recently moved to a Gironda-style programme myself based around the 8x8 and 6x6 compound sets method with 30-45sec RIs.
I wondered what your current take is on this style of training for hypertrophy because I sense you espouse a more heavy load/low rep philosophy. Could you elaborate?
Many thanks in advance for your time.
JB
[quote]JamesBrawn007 wrote:
Hi Coach
You have previously written about your admiration for Vince Girondaās training philosophy. I have recently moved to a Gironda-style programme myself based around the 8x8 and 6x6 compound sets method with 30-45sec RIs.
I wondered what your current take is on this style of training for hypertrophy because I sense you espouse a more heavy load/low rep philosophy. Could you elaborate?
Many thanks in advance for your time.
JB[/quote]
I do not admire Vince Gironda; rather my passion is training and training history. In that regard I love reading about old-time training and methodologies, and I enjoy sharing what I learn with other people.
In many aspects, Gironda was ahead of his time. However I do no subscribe to his approach. Donāt get me wrong, it is effective. But I personally believe that a heavier loading approach based on optimizing the CNS response to training is the superior way to train.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
Most definitely! With beginners I actually believe (now, after years of following the mainstream dogma) that lower reps performed with either greater loads OR more acceleration is better than the traditional longer sets.
Beginners should focus right off the bad on optimizing the neural aspects of muscle contraction; programming the capacity to recruit high threshold motor units right off the bat is easier than unlearning previously developed motor patterns and reprograming new ones.[/quote]
Coach
Is this quote applicable to a skinny-fat hard-gainer? This kind of persons collect the worse conditions both biochemical and physiological.
Thib, Iāve recently read your book "ā¦Modern Strength "
Youāve mentioned that thereāre rate-dominant athletes.
What should such individual focus on in his training? (for max strength goal)
Thib,
For regressing certain one-leg exercises like pistols (or other versions of a 1-leg unsupported squat), would using a V-handle and a cable machine to āassistā the movement be an acceptable method without causing any major compromise to motor learning?
Coach
For your intro to mechanical drop sets workout are you supposed to do all 3 complex for your arm day ( a, b, c) or just choose from one?
thank you for your time I cant wait for the program to be released.
[quote]zxp99 wrote:
Thib,
For regressing certain one-leg exercises like pistols (or other versions of a 1-leg unsupported squat), would using a V-handle and a cable machine to āassistā the movement be an acceptable method without causing any major compromise to motor learning?[/quote]
To be honest I never use pistols or other such exercises.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
zxp99 wrote:
Thib,
For regressing certain one-leg exercises like pistols (or other versions of a 1-leg unsupported squat), would using a V-handle and a cable machine to āassistā the movement be an acceptable method without causing any major compromise to motor learning?
To be honest I never use pistols or other such exercises. [/quote]
Coach,
can I ask why?
Do you mean that you only use bilateral leg exercises, even with athletes?
Thank you so much for your time.
Hi Coach,
Iām hoping you can help me get a better sense of how assistance or secondary exercises fit into a high-weight low-rep scheme. If you are going to use sets of 5 reps, in order to get enough volume, it seems like you would have to raise the total number of sets. If you raise volume on your main exercise though, like Squat for 10x5 instead of 5x5, you have less sets to āspendā on your other exercises. Is the implication then that assistance/secondary exercises, like lunges, are removed? Or, would you do Squat for 5x5 and Lunge 5x5? It seems, at least to me, that squats are more conducive to heavy loading and so just doing 5 extra sets would make most sense.
Does this in turn mean that CNS boosters become the new assistance exercises so to speak? How often, in general, can you do CNS boosting techniques? I assume that if you did Squats Monday, Bench Tuesday, Deadlifts Thursday and Military Press Saturday that doing a Supramaximal hold, Partials, and Explosive liftsālike you laid out for shoulders earlier in the thread, each day to prepare for the main lift would be excessive.
Thanks for all you do on T-Nation. Itās awesome to be privy to the cutting edge stuff you are working on.
[quote]JPuxHenri wrote:
Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
zxp99 wrote:
Thib,
For regressing certain one-leg exercises like pistols (or other versions of a 1-leg unsupported squat), would using a V-handle and a cable machine to āassistā the movement be an acceptable method without causing any major compromise to motor learning?
To be honest I never use pistols or other such exercises.
Coach,
can I ask why?
Do you mean that you only use bilateral leg exercises, even with athletes?
Thank you so much for your time.[/quote]
No, I do use lunges, step-ups and bulgarian squats. But I never liked pistols because they are done with a posture that is not recommended for sports (or life in general) ā¦ the pistols always end-up being performed with a ātail underā position.
Hey coach im going to start your leap tall building workout. One day you say to work your torso and the other you say to work your shoulders and arms. How would you set up the torso workout and the shoulders and arms workout for strength and size?
CT, iām worried that I might be doing too much on compound movements, but iām not sure. Mondays I do bench and squats, wednesdays are military presses and SLDLs, and fridays are incline BP and Romanian DLs. The isolated work I do with these workouts are made to target the same muscle groups used for the compound workouts, and I try to not work the same muscle group the same more than once a week (but I find itās kind of hard to not do such!) am I on the right track?
[quote]J.Wollmann wrote:
CT, iām worried that I might be doing too much on compound movements, but iām not sure. Mondays I do bench and squats, wednesdays are military presses and SLDLs, and fridays are incline BP and Romanian DLs. The isolated work I do with these workouts are made to target the same muscle groups used for the compound workouts, and I try to not work the same muscle group the same more than once a week (but I find itās kind of hard to not do such!) am I on the right track?[/quote]
Impossible to say without knowing:
a) your loading scheme (sets and reps)
b) the methods you are using
c) the āfatigue levelā used for each set (to failure, beyond failure, 2 reps shy of failure, etc.)
Olympic lifters perform the clean & jerk, snatch and squat at least 5 days a week, oftentimes twice a day. If the loading parameters and fatigue level are controlled, it is possible to train this way and progress. Itās all about managing nervous system fatigue.
Hey Coach
just want to clear up my confusion
in your workouts on this site eg HSS-100 when you say 4-5 sets in the 6-8 rep range are the sets ramping/flat pyrammids or straight sets?
Thanks