How do you train? Who trains bodybuilding style, powerlifting style, old-school, etc.? A guy at work said he wanted to have a big OH press, which got me into them, then I got Dino Training. Now I’m a full out old-school dinosaur w/my db c&p, bottom squats, push presses, etc.
Renegade Training.
Whatever its called, i like training hard and heavy in the basics - squats, presses, deadlifts, weighted pull ups, rows, SLDs, weighted dips, etc…
Poliquin
I train using Ian Kings principals for upper body and explosive work for the lower body. I also get in my lifting of sexy girls 5 times a week. You could call it Dino Training with a sexy twist.
LL, do you know what happened to Coach Poliquin, his website has all but disappeared, he is no longer available on QFAC for guru consultations, and I’m assuming his fall seminars are off as well.
I don’t think anything has happened to him. At least I hope not. I know what you mean about his website though and with QFAC. He (his web designer) seems to tinker with it alot. Every few months it seems a little different. I think that Poliquin spends most of his time doing personal training for athletes and professional teams. I spoke with him a few months ago and he siad that he thought he would have seminars in the fall but he wasn’t definite. I think that he would rather deal exclusively with elite athletes both for financial reasons as well as the fact that he probably just likes it better. For example, I had a phone consultation with him last spring. I paid $65 for a half hour. It was well worth it for me but I can’t imagine whay he would do it. I’m sure he could and does charge hundreds of $$ per hour. Why deal with someone like me asking the same questions he has heard a million times for pennies compared to what he could get. I just think he makes plenty of money dealing with non bodybuilder types. Cool for him but it sucks for us. LL
I have kinda developed my own style of training borrowing from different sources. At first I just lifted bodybuilding stlye blindly and saw some gains. Over time, I have incorporated many more powerlifting aspects; endurance and combat training during wrestling season, sprints, lots of Ian King for upper body, Poliquin for calves and legs, some aspects of renegade for my overall gpp. One thing I want to look into is dinosaur training.
Hey LL, I think you hit it on the head, our poor asses couldn’t even think about his rates of hundreds per hour that he charges the elite athletes. I have spoken with him in person a couple of times and go the exact same feeling, and to be honest I don’t blame him one bit, I’d do the exact same thing. Although he did rake some tall cash in from seminar attendees for ART therapy, about 180 bucks for 5-10 minutes worth of work, not too shabby!
I’m training very high volume right now(bout 24 sets per w/o between two bodyparts)and am going to try and stick with the high vol…while cycling reps and changing up the split…every 4 weeks…also a rest week after every 4.hoping to work down to an 8x3… I throw in a little dino for finishers every now and then and have renegade-conventional mix active recovery day. You might have figured out its kind of based on John Berardi’s training with some personal modifications. I like to pull a little from everyone and use it in my programs…like King, Davies, staley Berardi , CP and Tate…i think thats the best way to go…never stop learning and mix it up at a pace you can handle. keep hittin em hard…Mike
beannog - I got my copy of Dinosaur Training a week or 2 ago & it rocks. I especially like the stuff about mental training & motivation.
Renegade.
That is a difficult question since I use a lot of different influences in my training. Over the next 8 months, however, my training plans reflect influences from Charles Poliquin, Tudor Bompa, Mel Siff, Louie Simmons, Vladimir Zatsiorsky, Jay Schroeder and even the HIT crowd. My goals are to increase hypertrophy, limit strength and strength-speed. How do I plan to do this? Well, I use periodisation. I spend a period laying a foundation with hypertrophy then add strength and power training. Right now I am in the last 2 weeks of a strength phase. I am using the WSB method. Beginning in October and lasting through November I will embark on a hypertrophy phase cycling 2 weeks of 2-a-day training (training 5 days per week) with 2 weeks of 1-a-day full body training (training 2 times per week) and then repeating. The 2-a-day training will involve 36 sets per day of training – very high volume, but not taking anything to failure. The 2x per week training will involve training in and HIT-style – training to failure, but only 2 sets per exercise and only 5 exercises for 10 sets total per workout. After 8 weeks of hypertrophy training, it is time for strength training, once again using the WSB method. After that, 8 more weeks of hypertrophy training, this time cycling 2 weeks of GVT training with 2 weeks of HIT training (then repeating). This will be followed by 8 weeks of strength training – again using the WSB method.
So I guess the answer to your question about how I train depends on what month you ask the question 
Sincerely,
Matthew A. Levy
I combine Matt Furey’s “Combat Conditioning” with Pavel Tsatsouline’s Kettlebell training and Throw in some dino training for good measure.
Mike Mahler
Westside Method!!
Lifting seriously for less than a year, I’ve come to appreciate Ian King’s workouts, & that’s what I’ll be doing until next March. After that, who knows?
the best thing i have done is make my own lifting program, adapted from WSB protocol, involving the classic OL lifts. Snatch and the now defunct press, from the clean and press. I may start cleaning again too.
I’m on the same path as eag, “hard and heavy in the basics”, I’m having toooo much fun to change it…
I don’t know if this counts, but I have found Ron Harris’ training articles very useful. They seem to be in a variety of magazines, and I always find success in using them, but I also incorporate many other styles.