P-Dog: I don’t know who you think you are trying to lecture me on poundages, but shut it! I have been training for 9 years with a few breaks in between…held a bench press record in my state at the age of 16 so please save the lip.
For some reason you cant seem to differentiate the difference between me questioning your form and questioning your poundages. I hope you can do weighted pull ups with 100lbs. It don?t matter to me. I was simply trying to explain to you that you should never sacrifice form for weight. If you want to use shitty form to make yourself feel stronger go right ahead. you’ve been training for 9 years and your 5’7 170 @11%. wtf have you been doing all this time? if you?re such a training genius why are you asking us peons for advice? christ, i would think that someone with your credentials would be answering question rather than asking them. wow, you held a bench press record at 16 man your a stud. can you please teach me and my fellow t-brothers how to bench press with semi strict form? if i was your size and had been training for 9 years i would be questioning what i was doing wrong. youve got 6 years training experience on me and you still seem to lack an understanding for what you should or should not be doing. good luck with your “semi” strict form and 25 set shoulder routines. If I were you I would quit getting pissed off when people try to help me out and start listening to their advice. Im sure you?ll get great results with your m&f 4 weeks to gargantuan shoulders routine. How about you go to the previous issues section and start with issue #1? come back in a few months when you?re done reading all the issues.
wow i just re-read this entire thread and realized how ridiculous you really are. you didnt take eric’s advice(even though he is one of the most respected people on this site) and you responded to ike simply because he has 6 years training experience. (no offense to ike, he is also very respected on this site.) my point is this, you wanted ike’s advice simply because he has 6 years experience, well according to you, you have 9. obviously that proves the theory that experience doesnt mean shit. your whole claim to fame is that you have 9 years experience and held a record at 16 yet you are asking for advice from people that are obviously inferior to you because of your experience. you have no clue, you have contradicted yourself, you have alienated some respected people on this site, and your routine sucks.
One, this forum doesn’t host the same kind of people you may find in others. Keep it civil.
P-Dog:
Your definition of ‘semi-strict’ may differ from his. It doesn’t necessarily mean flopping like a fish.
But even ‘semi-strict’ cheat reps have a place. Certainly toward the end of a failure set, your otherwise impeccable form suffers just slightly for the sake of a few more reps?
DI
The personal attacks just keep coming huh Pdog the man. For your information I am at 11.8% because I chose to be there, on top of being a CPA…having been diagnosed with lung cancer and surviving through it…its like I had all the time in the world to train and coordinate my nutrition. You sir are a fucken fool! Never have I claimed to know everything! Aside from yourself, the people here have a great deal to offer me personally. Ask Ike and Chris if I alienated them. That has been resolved. Making blind assumptions about me and my training. Do me a favor look me up in Hawaii and give me a call. I would love to meet someone who thinks they are as invincible as you are.
Being childish is not in the nature of this forum. The forums are not here for personal attacks. Everytime you waste a post on insulting another T-man you use valuable space that could in turn be used for an informative post.
again you choose to dodge my criticism and arguments. you have yet to refute the question of your form, and the fact that you turned my constructive criticism into a personal attack.
knight- no doubt a couple of cheat reps are a useful tool towards the end of a set, but not the entire thing.
Knight RT thanks for the suggestion, but PDog just rubbed me one too many times. I think you are right my definition of strict form is completely different from yours. Let me try and clarify by semi strict I mean no swinging, no using your feet to push you higher, no movement of the lowerbody unless from the momenteum from lowering you are moving back and forth at which point I stop at the bottom until the movement stops. Then I proceed to do my next rep. Down to a full extension at the bottom and up until I hit my upper chest on the bar. Hope this helps to clear it up for you Knight RT?
On another note the thread was already dead because of the great input I got from a number of other people.
P-Dog:
Agreed.
One:
That sounds like excellent form.
Ultimately, your chinning progress depends quite a bit on tempos. Half the guys I see on the bar do jackhammer reps… coincidently enough, the smallest half. Great form, but terrible for mass.
DI