Hey, I know that some people have a harder time than others at weight lifting. It seems that lately, knowing how to work hard is such a foreign concept to most people that when they get in the gym, they either proceed to go through the motions or need some strict number sequence to follow because they can’t tell how to work hard enough to produce any muscle gains.
I am alien to this nonsense. I had to wake up on Saturdays and mow the yard. My grandmother would have me cleaning out the gutters on her house before I was ever in high school. My dad was a middle school football coach so I watched people playing and training hard since I was a little kid. The bottom line is, we were accustomed to working…and working pretty damn hard. No one had to tell me how to do the same in the gym.
Is that was is missing lately?
Gaby’s posts in my thread leave me in awe at how the human mind works. If this poster is a woman, it would explain more, but since this person has ignored this question many times now, I will simply assume it is not and may be a troll.
First post:
[quote]Hi there Professor X. I read through the thread and I observed you methodology and psychology.
Now I have my problem regarding my biceps and I tough an opinion/advice from you won’t kill me. I have to mention first that I’m training 5 days per week using CT’s concept and his rules and that I’m gaining LBM and I feel most of my muscles exeperiencing rapid strength and size increases.
For biceps I usually go with using mechanical drop sets, constant tension stuff and pump stuff.
The real problem is that triceps strength has increased but not that much for biceps. I did started out weak, curling 5 lbs barbell for 5-6 repsthe first time I started training 2 years ago. Now curently I CAN curl 35 lbs dumbells for 6 good reps per arm. So to cut the long short and to go straight to the question: Should I start to use ramping and cheating to get to heavier weights and forget about fatigue stuff or I need to trash my biceps with more fatigue work?
NOTE: the last time I DID train biceps for strength, 9-10 months ago I got some ugly reddish-purple stretch-marks on my corcobrachialis that’s why I stopped being concerned with strength work but surprisingly I still had minor strength gains because when I stopped focusing on the weights I could curl those 35s for 2 good reps and 4 cheated.
I tought that maybe your opinion would clear out some things to me.
Thanks in advance.[/quote]
[quote]Oh, excuse me for occuping your time but there’s no use. I may have been slightly demotiveted and becoming desperate at the time I posted but now, being able to think clear I can figure this out on my own.
1st up I’m not that good at unilateral work and will (as until now) focus on unilateral stuff.
I don’t get what the standard weight I should be curling at the time (talking barbell stuff).
2nd: I will surely NOT do what you just said. The last time I did employed cheating I got lower back pain and got a wrist to “pop” really ugly.
After that I started going lighter sets (like 90 lbs or so) and doing 20-25 sets per workout. It’s great but after 6 weeks the body gets pretty used to it. Since CT recommended fatigue work, I’m getting the biggest pumps of my life.
You know what I should be talking this much because nobody will listen anyway and I’m NOT “certified” to explain how I train to those who use other concepts than I.
Now I’m sorry for posting that question and taking away your “precious” time of implementing your doctrine and making yourself look all-knowing and all-mighty. I’ve got no more questions for you sir and alo pleas don’t take it personal.[/quote]
[quote]Guys you’re seriously missing my point.
1st up DON’T ask respect from a person unless you give respect too. I felt disrespect coming from you so why on earth would I show the slightest respect, that’s pure logic.
2nd up, you can’t force people to agree with anyone’s principles/concepts unless he choses to do so.
So you told you opinion in regard to my qustion, if I chose not to agree with that you shouldn’t take it so personal. Everyone creates their own reallity in wich they control the outcome of their actions and sets his own ideas into place.
I DO take full responsability for what I’ve done, so I Do belive that weak abs were a part of it (I wasn’t deadlifting at the time), but taking it to biomechanical level, biceps are a tonic muscle group, they sustain high levels of work and don’t have a very good neural connection with the CNS, so sacrificing form and not achiving maximal tension is not the best way to train them in my eyes, at least. That’s the way MY logic goes until I figure out something’s place logicaly and theoretically I you can’t figure it out how it works practically. That’s just my way of thinking.
So seriously I don’t care that much what happens to my post or whatever. I don’t want to convince anybody otherwise the what they know (and organise in their mind), it would be aginst my own principles. I once DID wanted to become like X or CT or any coach, in the regard of sharing information with others, until I asked myself the question “what for”. You can’t interact with people that don’t want you to.
So X don’t take it that personal, if I would have taken serious a lot of stuff people told me, I would have given up training in the last year.
And guys I don’t belive it’s immature to take responsability for you actions and choices.
BTW, X (if you misinterpret agoin you’ll feel insulted again) I don’t have anything against you, but the way you responded and reacted was kind of girlish and immature. You first give a response from above just to make me look inferior (I’m not saing I’m not but always remember that smart people try to be friendly and at the same level as the people they’re talking with) and then you were so offended by my response that you choose to delete it. I don’t care at all (in fact I don’t care if you chose to ignore me and even delete this post too) but what I espect from you is to correct your mistakes and to improve for the whole variety of people that follow you.
AGAIN I DON’T HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST ANYONE, so maybe this time you WON’T MISINTERPRET MY MESSAGE.[/quote]
I am putting this here because this poster’s posts will be erased in the other thread…basically because the issues he or she has don’t seem to be capable of being answered without electro-therapy.