but for overall full body muscle building purposes would you still not recommend lifts from the floor? thank you, pk[/quote]
Lifts from the floor will not provide any additional muscle building or strength building effect compared to lifts from the hang. At best you will be using 60-65% of your max deadlift for 1-3 reps … which will hardly build up muscle mass… especially if you are already deadlifting.
Now, if you are already efficient at lifts from the floor, there is no reason to drop them. My original comment was meant to someone who has problems with his form from the floor or who is just starting to learn the lifts.
**** I heard that Ben Johnson ran a 3.7 and Merlene Ottey a 3.9. Do you believe this.
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Considering that Ben is widely recognized as the fastest human being ever BY FAR and that his strong point was his start an initial 30m there is no reason to doubt the validity of the 3.7. I would just like to know the exact conditions of this time (was it a fat start or a gun start? with astarting blocks or without? what kind of track and wind condition, etc.). But yeah, I have no problems believing that BJ ran a sub 4.0 40m
As far as Marlene goes, I would have to see it to believe it.
Hey CT no questions for you, only to thank you for your awesome articles and training programs, I’m on week 5 of the mutation series down 8pounds strenght is far from going down! I’ve been training for a couple of years and im a phys ed teacher based in drummondville, qc so not far from you I guess. Keep up the good work!
My goal in training is to get stronger for wrestling, mostly upper body wrestling as this is what I am going to nationals to compete in… Are there any specific lifts you could recommend that would be good for this, and also, any good routines or modifications to routines i could do? thanx.
btw, i am currently doing a modified westside routine with sandbag work, rock climbing once a week, as well as regular practice, but i have modified all that to work to a point where i dont burn out from overtraining to quickly…
Legs are very important for Greco too. You should do a lot of grip work, chins, cleans, leg work, and upper body pulling. Chins and cleans are wrestling specific and Dan Gable’s favortie exercises.
I just first want to say thanks for taking time out of your busy day to answer questions! I train twice a day, one muscle group in the AM and the other in the PM. If I use maximal loads,“95% of 1 RM” in the first workout and submaximal loads,“75% of 1RM” in the second workout, would I infringe on the law of Repeated Efforts, or does the law not count because I am training two different muscle groups and because they are seperated by 6 hours.
[quote]wressler125 wrote:
My goal in training is to get stronger for wrestling, mostly upper body wrestling as this is what I am going to nationals to compete in… Are there any specific lifts you could recommend that would be good for this, and also, any good routines or modifications to routines i could do? thanx.
btw, i am currently doing a modified westside routine with sandbag work, rock climbing once a week, as well as regular practice, but i have modified all that to work to a point where i dont burn out from overtraining to quickly… [/quote]
I have my MMA guys do a lot of zercher deadlifts as well as continental clean and press (we also use logs to do this).
This later lift is hard to explain, I’ll have to have some pics taken.
[quote]daniel_lamon wrote:
I just first want to say thanks for taking time out of your busy day to answer questions! I train twice a day, one muscle group in the AM and the other in the PM. If I use maximal loads,“95% of 1 RM” in the first workout and submaximal loads,“75% of 1RM” in the second workout, would I infringe on the law of Repeated Efforts, or does the law not count because I am training two different muscle groups and because they are seperated by 6 hours.
Thanks [/quote]
I always prefer to train the same muscle group twice in one day when training twice a day. First workout is a neural workout while the second one is a lighter “muscle” workout. The problem with doing a different bodypart is that it cuts down the number of recovery days before each muscle group is trained again.
Hey Coach Tibaudeau,
Thanks for your help and advice. I’m hoping that you read and answer my question this time, as I believe I have a more specific topic of query. I was wondering, do you think you could possibly help me design a workout to prioritize the following muscle groups in this order: Upper Arms, Rhomboids, Hands, Forearms. I’m looking to imporve strength-endurance with capacities transferring over to my ability to perform chin-ups. I have three days per week to work out (M-W-F), and I was wondering if you could help with exercises, set-rep schemes, etc… Thanks in advance for you help!
Just thought i’d let you know i’m going to be trying the two a day approach tomorrow. I want to lift in the morning but my girlfriend wants to go to the gym with me after she gets off work, so i’m just gonna do both, haha.
I’m going to be doing some speed work for bench and chins and a few sets of heavy bench and pullups in the morning then some high rep dumbbell stuff at night. I won’t be able to do this all the time but i think i’d really like it if i could.
CT,
Have you worked with any strongman competitors? I know you said you have competed in the past, how many event days would you perscribe? Also Could a strongman competitor just do the event training, and not so much “gym” work. I know that everything else being eaqule the stronger athlete will win, but would this approtch be worth a shot?
Thanks
Will42
CT, what carb cycling recommendations do you use for someone on a cutting cycle? Do you only use CC for bulking? Where can I find information on how to CC correctly for both bulking and cutting?
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
I always prefer to train the same muscle group twice in one day when training twice a day. First workout is a neural workout while the second one is a lighter “muscle” workout. The problem with doing a different bodypart is that it cuts down the number of recovery days before each muscle group is trained again.[/quote]
By training two body parts a day, do you mean it increases the amount of recovery days that are needed before you can work out the muscle again?
I have made good gains on this split, but how would you arrange a similar split to mine that is more effective whith these muscle group pairings? I am a college student, so I could even train 3 times a day if it would help.I am a 22 year old natural Mesomorph with 10 years training experience,“last 4 are serious.” I am 6 foot 2 inches tall, and in the 270’s with around 13% body fat. I can train well with volume or intensity, but perfere volume,’ and I dont over train to easy unless my workout time exceeds 75 minutes or so.
If I keep the workout to an hour I can have a training density of around 60% without over training.
Day 1 AM Arms PM Shoulders
Day 2 AM Quads/Hams PM Caves/abs
Day 3 off
Day 4 Am Chest/Back PM Caves/abs
Day 5 off
Day 6 Repeat
Note: after 20 workouts, 3 workouts are done very easy for sets of 60 reps for a back off week. Also every 46 workouts or two and a half months I take 5 days off from the gym.
hi CT.
im an active competitor in olifting and also compete in bodybuiulding and powerlifing. i trains between6-10 sessions aweek{am pm}ususaly 3olifts for aweek ,3 bodybuilding sesssions with cardio on this days{am cardio, pm lifting}and tow powerlifting training aweek.
my problem is that the bodybuilding specific movments hurts my flexsibility in the olifting trianing and the volume is just becomes to high
what is the best way to combine training methods that include all 3 events? how i avoid over training considaring the high volume?
i want to point that i have amonth seperte between my olimpic lifts compettion amd abodybuilding show that im in.so i cant drop any of the sessions.plese help…