One more thing, Can I just follow the exercises as he outlined but do the warm-ups and sets to my liking. I’ll follow his rep scheme for the sets, but the warm-ups, I like to ramp gradually before giving maximal effort at work sets.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
OP focus on getting up your squat, dead, and core strength if you want carrying things to be easier[/quote]
Definitely will do. Core, I’ll let that happen with the basic lifts. I don’t plan on doing abs anytime soon(:
[quote]bendthebar wrote:
One more thing, Can I just follow the exercises as he outlined but do the warm-ups and sets to my liking. I’ll follow his rep scheme for the sets, but the warm-ups, I like to ramp gradually before giving maximal effort at work sets. [/quote]
Sure
[quote]bendthebar wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]bendthebar wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
nb4 someone whines about derailing[/quote]
let him whine then. I can’t wait to workout. Just have to wait for my workout partner, more like student. He wants to learn how to get big, so basically I’m emulating what everybody on the forum says. “Stick to the basics, lift heavy, eat, and sleep. No, seriously sleep is important. Don’t party late out at night everyday after gym and expect to see impressive results. You can expect some results, but you seriously want to get less for how hard you worked?”
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Cool deal. I’ve had some guys like that. It feels good to help people but it sucks when they aren’t consistent. Just be straight up with the dude if he starts slacking although I hope he sticks with it. The only party parties I’ve been to were prom and the parties we threw on our senior trip to Puerto Rico.[/quote]
Nice. Haha I never had a prom.
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School didn’t have one or you didn’t go?
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Broseph21 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Broseph21 wrote:
I’ve seen some videos of pre-contest pros where they’re piss weak.[/quote]
Links?[/quote]
Here’s Jay pushing some sissy weight for the next Olympia: - YouTube [/quote]
how many times can you rep a 315lb squat?[/quote]
You mean “how many times can you quarter squat 315?”
how come you don’t plan on doing abs anytime soon?
Abs/low back work is pretty essential to getting strong lol
I’ve come to some pretty respectable numbers in the deadlift and squat, but my abs are weak from months of disuse. Don’t let them fall behind as you’ll be putting more stress on your lower back than necessary. Other consequences of course include having weak abs that hold back your main lifts.
" Because squatting is better than anything else!" - Jim Wendler
Now what did I tell you!?!
" I don’t care what anyone else tells you on this forum, the legs make a man" - Me 
And dude, the 5/3/1 IS simple.
Step 1) Take 1 rep maxes in each of the 4 big lifts
Step 2) Subtract 10% of your 1 rep max, then write down how much 65 - 95 % of 90% of your 1rm is
Step 3) Follow the 3 week cycle accordingly.
[quote]d0m wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Broseph21 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Broseph21 wrote:
I’ve seen some videos of pre-contest pros where they’re piss weak.[/quote]
Links?[/quote]
Here’s Jay pushing some sissy weight for the next Olympia: - YouTube [/quote]
how many times can you rep a 315lb squat?[/quote]
You mean “how many times can you quarter squat 315?”[/quote]
Don’t revive that clusterfuck brah
[quote]Chase44 wrote:
" Because squatting is better than anything else!" - Jim Wendler
Now what did I tell you!?!
" I don’t care what anyone else tells you on this forum, the legs make a man" - Me
And dude, the 5/3/1 IS simple.
Step 1) Take 1 rep maxes in each of the 4 big lifts
Step 2) Subtract 10% of your 1 rep max, then write down how much 65 - 95 % of 90% of your 1rm is
Step 3) Follow the 3 week cycle accordingly.
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Squatting is better than anything else. It’s always the first thing I do when I come back from a vacation or a forced layoff.
[quote]bendthebar wrote:
I’m pretty proud of myself right now because nobody, at least not within the first hour has said my routine is sh**.[/quote]
If you want to learn to fight, your program sucks ass.
Bendthebar prepare to embark on a lifelong journey to attain all things awesome
For a weightlifting routine I’d look at Ross Enamait type training, but if you want to be a good fighter you have to specifically train either mma, boxing, martial arts etc. Being strong in the weightroom does not translate to being good in a given sport or fighting. That is technique. Your going to have to cross train. Just my 2 cents for what your looking for…
For a weightlifting routine I’d look at Ross Enamait type training, but if you want to be a good fighter you have to specifically train either mma, boxing, martial arts etc. Being strong in the weightroom does not translate to being good in a given sport or fighting. That is technique. Your going to have to cross train. Just my 2 cents for what your looking for…
Could someone please explain all of the love for Bruce Lee? This is bodybuilding isn’t it? Who honestly sits around and says man I wish I was jacked like 140lb, Bruce Lee.
Yep, I hate squatting but damn I’m going to give it my hardest this week. No more spotting. I’m going to squat in the squat rack and I won’t stop if that bar suddenly hits the bottom, I’ll squat until I can’t squat another two inches. For abs, I really don’t want to do abs because my abs already are wide enough. So I’m waiting til I lose fat to train them. I’ll let deadlifts train my lower back haha. Oh damn, I see why it’s a problem. Because I’ve NEVER tested 1 rep maxes for any lift at all. Advice is welcome, FightinIrish. Yes, my friend it is time to train to be AWESOME. I understand what you’re saying, IronWill. Truth is, I at first just wanted to be big and ripped, so dense, that I could take any hit, and so big I could clobber anyone to the ground with one punch. Then, I saw Fists of Legend with Jet Li and saw how he kept on going no matter how strong the Japanese General was, and realized I wanted the best of those two. So if you’re saying I should add in some shadow boxing and dumbbell punches, I’m game. But if you’re telling me to take classes, oy they are expensive for me. Then again, anything’s expensive for someone who owes money to the parking bastards. It’s not that we want to be his size, Behexen. It’s that his feats are so incredibly stunning. When someone says it feels like a car hit when his punch struck you, you start to gain respect. Then you gain even more when you realize he’s lightning fast. His one inch punch is pretty renowned too.
Is this thread serious?
I am assuming so considering all of the serious replies.
I don’t plan on writing a log because I just can’t remember my workouts sometimes. But I do have to express my thoughts on yesterday’s workout. I now realize what they meant by eat and train, but live too. I spent so much time thinking about bodybuilding every second of the day before that it seemed like results were just going by SO SLOW. After all I haven’t gained past 175 lb. for this year. And the first time I let all of that go and just trained for power and strength and speed instead of “feeling the muscle” my workouts became that much better. My pecs felt so stimulated throughout the workout and my triceps did a fuck ton of weight without me even trying. All I concentrated was pushing that bar as hard and as fast as I could. My triceps were usually stimulated thoroughly on bodybuilding workouts though, but I’m not tripping. Can’t wait til tomorrow. Back/bicep day. Biceps is so much more rewarding when trained for power I learned. But I’ve yet to actually dominate deadlifts. In the past, I would deadlift to contract the back fully and try do it as smoothly but still at considerable speed. Tomorrow I’m going to deadlift the bar like I was trying to smash my back into the wall. OK, maybe that sounded wrong, but you get what I mean. Thanks to everyone for the help. I don’t plan on doing 5/3/1 yet, but I love low volume workouts now. When I was bodybuilding, even though I was giving maximal effort on every set, I still kept going for two hours, still thinking I could go back in and do more, which eventually led me to do 4 sets per exercise, sometimes reaching a high of twenty sets. But yesterday, I was taxed for the first time during a chest workout and it felt good. 18 sets total for chest and tri and every single one felt like it counted. I probably do 4-5 sets of ramping sets for warm-up on the first two exercises yesterday and when I was working strictly on bodybuilding but they don’t count to me.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Is this thread serious?
I am assuming so considering all of the serious replies.[/quote]
Uh oh. I feel like the prof. is about to school me. If you’ve read my goals, what would you say I should do differently? I’ve seen your posts and you have a tendency of letting everyone HAVE IT ALL. I appreciate that kind of honesty. Teach me, professor.
You weigh 170…and want to look like Bruce Lee…yet want to be a really good fighter…but don’t train for it.
I’m confused.
This thread could have been hilarious.