Also I’m starting to see that perhaps my main goal should be hypertrophy, at least in-part. I feel like I have a decent base of strength and like many of you have said, if I want more strength the best way to go is more weights. So given the circumstances I feel that I should focus more on hypertrophy.
In my personal opinion, gathered in part by reading lots of articles from lots of different people and assuming that their all smarter than me, strength and hypertrophy can be reached in-part via the same techniques. Now I’m not saying training for strength will always lead to major hypertrophy and the other way around. I’m basically saying most strong guys are big (enough) and most guys with big muscles are fairly strong.
Obviously that’s a general assumption and it can be argued each way all day that big guys may not be strong enough and so on and so forth. When it comes to the average pudgy 23 year old like me, the kind of strength that comes with training for hypertrophy will suffice.
P.S. I meant on my stays that I’m about 25% rather than 15%. I think that’s a high guess but safer than 15%.
[quote]corynonymous wrote:
Also I’m starting to see that perhaps my main goal should be hypertrophy, at least in-part. I feel like I have a decent base of strength and like many of you have said, if I want more strength the best way to go is more weights. So given the circumstances I feel that I should focus more on hypertrophy.
In my personal opinion, gathered in part by reading lots of articles from lots of different people and assuming that their all smarter than me, strength and hypertrophy can be reached in-part via the same techniques. Now I’m not saying training for strength will always lead to major hypertrophy and the other way around. I’m basically saying most strong guys are big (enough) and most guys with big muscles are fairly strong.
Obviously that’s a general assumption and it can be argued each way all day that big guys may not be strong enough and so on and so forth. When it comes to the average pudgy 23 year old like me, the kind of strength that comes with training for hypertrophy will suffice.
P.S. I meant on my stays that I’m about 25% rather than 15%. I think that’s a high guess but safer than 15%.[/quote]
I think that if hypertrophy is your goal, you should do that. And avoid doing things just because they make people on message boards happy:
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[quote]corynonymous wrote:
I am currently moving and have not really made space to workout yet but it will happen soon. I’ll post how my first workout goes if that makes you happy.[/quote]
It’d make me happy if you posted the weights you currently do own, your last known maxes (for reps) on any basic exercises, and how you were training recently.
If you only own 120 pounds of weights and can bench that for 15 reps and deadlift it for 30 reps, that’s one thing. If you own 250 pounds of weight and can just deadlift it for 12, that’s a bit different. You said you tweaked your shoulder three weeks ago and stopped working out, but what did your training look like four/five/six weeks ago?
So rather than figuring out a way to make your situation work for your goals and accepting any of the multiple effective options that were offered and would work for the time being, you’re caving in and changing your goals? Alrighty then.
If you were going to change goals to anything, instead of trying to build muscle you’d probably be better off dropping some fat. Not trying to be mean, but carrying that much bodyfat simply isn’t necessary. A focused, well-designed 6 to 8-week cut could have a big impact.
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
[quote]corynonymous wrote:
I see what you’re saying and it makes sense. I had my reasons for asking what I did. Phenomenal gains have and are made by other people with little to no equipment and who also work 50 hour weeks. So if that’s the case for them, I should be allowed to at least try to make that the case for me.
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I am curious which people in particular you are referring to here. It would be an interesting case study to analyze the common traits in their training.[/quote]
I would imagine that the common trait is that of dedication and the willingness to do what needs to be done to get results and no more.
For the record, I don’t think 50 hours a week in most jobs is particularly demanding, and is certainly a piss-poor excuse for not training.
[quote]dagill2 wrote:
I would imagine that the common trait is that of dedication and the willingness to do what needs to be done to get results and no more.
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Possibly. I would have to know who we are talking about first.
I LOVE making customized workout plans for people, especially guys like you.