[quote]pumped340 wrote:
How long does your typical workout take you?[/quote]
about an hour and a half on a typical day. that’s training with two other guys.
Meat, due to circumstance I had to take a 6month break from the gym I am now back training but am only able to train two days per week. I want to recover strength and keep getting stronger, have you trained on a two times a week basis? and did you manage to get good strength gains with it? What kind of workouts would you recommend with such a limited amount of gym time? Thanks for any tips, I love this thread.
I just thought of a question that I should have asked a long time ago. For the big lifts, how long is your rest time, and do you have to wait much in between sets considering you have two people lifting with you? And if you weren’t training with two other people, would your time between sets remain the same?
[quote]JamFly wrote:
Meat, due to circumstance I had to take a 6month break from the gym I am now back training but am only able to train two days per week. I want to recover strength and keep getting stronger, have you trained on a two times a week basis? and did you manage to get good strength gains with it? What kind of workouts would you recommend with such a limited amount of gym time? Thanks for any tips, I love this thread.[/quote]
i only train with weights twice a week. i train chest, tris and shoulders on monday and then alternate between deadlift and squats every other week on wendsday. i also train upper back and biceps on wendsday after deads or squats. i then do light conditioning in between and a heavy conditioning day on sunday. so… to answer your question, yes you can get strong this way. i get plenty of recovery time and definitely look forward to my training since it’s so infrequent.
IMO, the stronger you get, the more recovery time you need between sessions.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]JamFly wrote:
Meat, due to circumstance I had to take a 6month break from the gym I am now back training but am only able to train two days per week. I want to recover strength and keep getting stronger, have you trained on a two times a week basis? and did you manage to get good strength gains with it? What kind of workouts would you recommend with such a limited amount of gym time? Thanks for any tips, I love this thread.[/quote]
i only train with weights twice a week. i train chest, tris and shoulders on monday and then alternate between deadlift and squats every other week on wendsday. i also train upper back and biceps on wendsday after deads or squats. i then do light conditioning in between and a heavy conditioning day on sunday. so… to answer your question, yes you can get strong this way. i get plenty of recovery time and definitely look forward to my training since it’s so infrequent.
IMO, the stronger you get, the more recovery time you need between sessions.
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Unpossible. 6 way 6 days a week split is the only way to grow. You can’t get proper peck size unless you have a chest isolation day.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
I just thought of a question that I should have asked a long time ago. For the big lifts, how long is your rest time, and do you have to wait much in between sets considering you have two people lifting with you? And if you weren’t training with two other people, would your time between sets remain the same?[/quote]
if i’m doing a ME lift i rest as long as i need to. i don’t time it but i rest until i feel like i’m fully recovered. lifting with two other guys usually gives me plenty of rest though.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
I just thought of a question that I should have asked a long time ago. For the big lifts, how long is your rest time, and do you have to wait much in between sets considering you have two people lifting with you? And if you weren’t training with two other people, would your time between sets remain the same?[/quote]
if i’m doing a ME lift i rest as long as i need to. i don’t time it but i rest until i feel like i’m fully recovered. lifting with two other guys usually gives me plenty of rest though. [/quote]
Alright. I usually get impatient during my rest time if I am training alone.
bench night- spent the entire day outside in the heat and humidity. i weighed myself before i went to the gym and i lost 10 lbs of water today. needless to say, i was very dehydrated going into this workout. i knew i wouldn’t have much stamina. i decided to go moderately heavy with lower weights and kept it short.
reverse grip bench- paused
0x10
135x6
225x6
315x4
365x1
405x1
425x1- very happy with this. it felt very light and fast. i think i’m good for close to 500 with these.
incline dumbell presses
140’s x 10 x 2
hammer strength shoulder press- this machine was a joke. i kept loading this thing up. it took 8 plates and 25 on each side before it got hard.
2plates x 6
4plates x 6
6plates x 6
8plates x 6
8plates +25’s x 2
cable wrist curls
some x a lot
time to rehydrate
Just popping in to say, thanks for the thread.
Don’t want you forgetting about us pretty boys over here. 
Your strength is insane man. What’s your height and weight now?
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Just popping in to say, thanks for the thread.
Don’t want you forgetting about us pretty boys over here.
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are you call’n me ugly??
thanks hoss.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Your strength is insane man. What’s your height and weight now?[/quote]
thanks hoss… i’m about 5’8" and about 260 right now. i’m really working on my endurance and conditioning right now. tonight was not the best example of that though.
Whens the cut? 
[quote]pro-a-ggression wrote:
Whens the cut? :D[/quote]
i’m not actively dieting but the higher rep work with all the conditioning has me dropping bodyfat. being a strength athlete, actively cutting destroys strength. i’ll just do it slowly.
Hey i want to start front squatting, and just wondered if you have any recs on hand placement and the general setup. Ive seen a couple of videos of people crossing arms and resting the bar basically at the delt, but ive seen other people doing them with shoulder width grip and hands cocked back which do you prefer?
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
Hey i want to start front squatting, and just wondered if you have any recs on hand placement and the general setup. Ive seen a couple of videos of people crossing arms and resting the bar basically at the delt, but ive seen other people doing them with shoulder width grip and hands cocked back which do you prefer?
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i’ll paste in a vid of how i set up and perform them. i definitely prefer the arms crossed version. i don’t have nearly the flexibility in the wrists to do the clean grip version.
as for set up, i put the bar right up against my throat and let the bar sit in the gap between the collar bone and back edge of the anterior delt. the key to good bar placement is to keep the elbows high and the chest high. don’t let the elbows drop or your lower back round during the lift.
Wight the crossover version, I have found I have to have my shoulder rolled forward to have the bar sit right. This causes my upper back to not be tight. How do you account for this?
Also, the hand placement for dips and military presses is definitely better, so thanks.
[quote]coolnatedawg wrote:
Wight the crossover version, I have found I have to have my shoulder rolled forward to have the bar sit right. This causes my upper back to not be tight. How do you account for this?
Also, the hand placement for dips and military presses is definitely better, so thanks. [/quote]
i’m not getting the “shoulder rolled forward” thing. i do a front raise to keep the bar in place. sometimes i do my front squats with no hands to reinforce keep the shoulders up. when someone tells me that they are having issues keep the bar in place i tell them to really work on putting mass on the anterior head of the delt. you need a good bit of meat there to keep the bar in place.
Yea, sorry. I wrote that on my phone so it didn’t come out how I wanted.
What I meant was, in most lifts I try to pull my scaps together to keep my upper back tight as well as keep a good lower back arch. With the front squat, I seem to set up with my scaps apart and shoulders pushed forward (I guess similar to a front raise position). My delts are big enough to not be a problem although I do feel like I cradle it between my delts and my neck and sort of rest on the bone.
I make the focus keeping the elbows up too. So my question I guess would be do you have your scaps still pulled together or do you let that slide so you can get a good shelf for the bar?
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
Hey i want to start front squatting, and just wondered if you have any recs on hand placement and the general setup. Ive seen a couple of videos of people crossing arms and resting the bar basically at the delt, but ive seen other people doing them with shoulder width grip and hands cocked back which do you prefer?
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i’ll paste in a vid of how i set up and perform them. i definitely prefer the arms crossed version. i don’t have nearly the flexibility in the wrists to do the clean grip version.
as for set up, i put the bar right up against my throat and let the bar sit in the gap between the collar bone and back edge of the anterior delt. the key to good bar placement is to keep the elbows high and the chest high. don’t let the elbows drop or your lower back round during the lift.
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thanks that helped a lot!