This advice is Golden.
So I assume you do a full body routine?
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Every now and then, after I take my fish oil supps, I burp it up the rest of the day and it smell like I am standing over the minnow trough at a bait shop.
I’m doing an upper/lower style thing right now, but I have dabbled with 3 day full body and even 4 day full body routines in the recent past. The 4 day one ended up beating my elbow joints up after a few months, so I had to drop that, and the upper/lower lends itself best to training 4 days a week. The idea always intrigued me, and as I said I grew tired of being on the verge of injury and immobile for half the week.
I finally took the plunge to try it out after reading Alpha’s training log on here and things like Jamie Lewis’ Chaos and Pain blog.
If time became more of an issue I would have no problem dropping back to my 3 day full-body Waterbury style training, or an alternating A-B type routine laid out similar to this if I wanted a bit more mass focus.
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ever tried DC training?
Yep, I loved it at the time, although it’s VERY taxing. I remember literally feeling “crushed” after leg days, as if a heavy weight was on top of me for hours and hours. Particularly near the end of a blast cycle.
It does Not lend itself well to my current goals and life style and gym equipment, but it’s a great system for muscular growth, but perhaps comes at the cost of not being able to do much else physically.
I think unless you’re priming yourself for a meet (powerlifting), there’s no benefit to training above 85% of your 1RM. In fact it’s a hinderance to your gains.
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Agreed. I’ve long believed the biggest obstacle to making genuine progress in strength sports (and also bodybuilding) isn’t how complicated training and diet are, but the soul-crushing amount of bullshit you have to sort through to find what’s true and useful.
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When out for dinner or a meal somewhere with family I actually enjoy chicken so much I happily order chicken and rice
I honestly enjoy the whole clean eating and rarely feel the craving for cheat foods/meals. Am I truly human?!
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I consider rice cheat food.
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Went to the US for vacation a couple of weeks back and here are some of my thoughts coming from an outsider’s perspective regarding making ‘gains’ if you live in the US.
If you live in the US, making gains in the gym is literally several times easier due to wide access to gyms and ‘good’ food, you have no excuse and I’m literally even more way less sympathetic to ‘hard gainers’ now.
Protein Powder seems largely unnecessary since there seem to be a really decent amount of protein in most commonly had food there. That being said, protein powder is also hella cheap in the US so I can see why people do utilise it.
The widespread availability of protein powder is damn near amazing and slightly ridiculous, went to a farmer’s market and there was “organic protein powder”. For reference, I can’t even find protein in physical stores where I’m from.
Food is very cheap in the US. No wonder y’all have such a high obesity rate. And again, this makes me even more pissed when I think about supposed ‘hard gainers’ residing in the US.
On a side note, the US is freaking amazing and I would literally kill to reside there but since that isn’t happening anytime soon and probably won’t be too easy, I’ll just have to be jealous/envious of y’all.
Oh and when I was there, I literally felt the whole “this is the greatest country in the world” vibe.
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I’d swap with you for a few years. I tried to find a position in Singapore after I left my expat stint in Tokyo a few years back. It’s still on my bucket list of places to live for a few years, and would have been a great place to raise our kids. It has great schools, high level of achievement, etc. Agree on the cost of food though. I think we’re a bit spoiled here in the U.S. when it comes to food and real estate prices (which has afforded me the ability to have a gym at home).
Speak for yourself! My rent here in NY could pay a mortgage in almost any other part of the country
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Coming from a local’s perspective, that’s really debatable. That being said, expats generally have a really comfortable life here.
Eh, my tiny 4 room apartment in an average area (which is also government subsidised) costs $440k USD so… And lets not even get into cost of cars in Singapore.
where are you from, Ben?
Singapore, some tiny(think 1/5th the size of the Grand Canyon) country in South East Asia.
Hey, I appreciate your take on America. I always like the perspective of others. We tend to forget how good we have it and take things for granted. I’ve traveled a bit and always find several things about the culture I am visiting that seem so much more civilized than my own that I can appreciate an outsider’s view.
It’s hard to compare living expenses between places and you highlight why when you speak of the cost of cars in Singapore. See, the thing is, you probably don’t need a car, where as @max13 lives on Long Island, as do I, where you are dead without a car. There is very poor public transportation that, while not expensive, is not really transportation either. My first class is at 7:30 AM and the earliest a bus can get me there is at 8:12. . . and that’s if I leave my house at 6:10 and the total trip includes walking 1.5 miles, so, I need a car. While it’s cheaper than a car in Singapore, with maintenance, gas, etc… makes it about $500 per month, which, if I spent on a mortgage, would be worth another $75K in house.
Interestingly enough, your $440K apartment is just slightly above the average price of a home in the county in which @max13 and I live. What also needs to be considered is the average income so that relative cost can be determined.
But, that’s really all minutiae that balances everything out. We really are pretty lucky to have the things we have. I would love to make it to Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia one day. Travel is a great pleasure and I’m glad you got to see some of the U.S. (sorry about Utah Bro, lol).
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I feel whom ever came up with the whole BMI concept should be horse whipped…
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When I started PL I trained in short tights. I got mistaken for a crossfitter once.
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I have eaten nothing but garbage for the last three days, and very little of that. 
If I didn’t care at all about my health and appearance,I’d have days where I’d binge eat and other whole days where I’d eat 1000-1500 calories.There are days where I could just not eat almost anything