[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
Now, for what all you hardcore muscleheads have been waiting for - a get-huge bible!
Choose a blend of compound and isolation exercises.
Split the body over 3 to 6 workouts, depending on your split and preferred frequency.
Perform 2 to 4 exercises per muscle group - 2 compound and 1 to 2 isolation for large muscle groups, and 1 to 2 compound and 1 to 2 isolation for small muscle groups.
Follow a bodybuilder diet - 5 to 6 meals per day; a carb-protein drink during and/or after workouts; protein at every meal; healthy fat at every meal; occasional “free”/“cheat” meals; plenty of veggies and fruits; and the amount of starchy carbs you can handle.
Work hard.
Get adequate sleep.
Manage your lifestyle and responsibilities so you can recover and have time to work out.
Dude, I know I’m all fucked up, and might put many bodybuilding writers out of business because I just took what everyone needs and packaged it in 7 guidelines!
Dude, I’m not ripping on the man as a person. Judging from some of his articles and videos, he seems good-hearted, passionate, faithful, and likable. I’ve just gotten ticked off by some of his writing that I find condescending and ridiculous.
Bricknyce: you are entitled to your opinion. I know him personally though and the last thing he would ever try to do is talk down to someone, he is one of the most respectful and insightful people I know. He is just extremely intelligent when it comes to exercise and nutrition.
Indian dude: “Thank you for the innervation videos! They really help explain the difference between lifting weights versus working a muscle. I have an asymmetry problem with my pectorals. When using a barbell or machine and surprisingly sometimes even when using dumbbells I feel the stimulation a lot more in my right pec. Also its now bigger than my left. If I want to feel the stimulation more in my left pec then i have to deliberately not hold the bar in a balanced manner but in a way that puts more pressure on my left side. What can I do about this?”
Uncle Scott: "Great question, and this is what “Innervation” is all about. This will often take care of itself over time. What you describe is often a reflection of a very natural thing called the “bilateral deficit” And time can often correct it. I don;t suggest “augmenting” any particular move or exercise, but instead learn and apply “kinetic chain strength expression” for exercises which effect that area. We will be doing a lot of that on here. Also single sided stuff, can have a pronounced carry over effect from the strong side to the weak side as well, a bilateral strength transfer, sometimes called, “reciprocal innervation”
Indian Dude: “Thank you for replying back. So what you are saying is that in time the asymmetry will be corrected out? Also something that I should’ve mentioned before is that I’m a noob. I can bench just 50kg X 5 reps. Thats my current max. Does my noob status and my weak strength level somehow change the advice you gave me?”
Uncle Scott: “No it doesn’t change it. It actually reinforces what I was saying. Stick with it”
Great, kinetic chain strength expression and reciprocal innervation for a fucker benching 110 pounds. Awesome.
You got it all wrong. Brick is using an advanced hyper-innervation approach called quantum incapacitation. He’s way ahead of Scott Abel at this point.
[quote]knewell wrote:
Bricknyce: you are entitled to your opinion. I know him personally though and the last thing he would ever try to do is talk down to someone, he is one of the most respectful and insightful people I know. He is just extremely intelligent when it comes to exercise and nutrition.
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[quote]knewell wrote:
Bricknyce: you are entitled to your opinion. I know him personally though and the last thing he would ever try to do is talk down to someone, he is one of the most respectful[/quote] Maybe in front of you… But not to some others, including people who definitely deserve a ton of respect. [quote] and insightful people I know. He is just extremely intelligent when it comes to exercise and nutrition.
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Ripping on Scott Abel really is a waste of time. There is a lot of great stuff he has to teach, especially for bodybuilders. If you find some of his stuff to be confusing (as I also did in reference to some of the stuff posted on this thread) just go to his website and register for his forum.
The forum is free and it is really good. It is a lot like Mike Boyle’s forum and Thib’s locker room in that the author is on it alot and answers questions directly.
A good tip would be to get on there and look up all Abel’s posts and see what you can learn. His answers are simple, insightful and applicable. I do the same thing here with my favorite T-Nation authors.
Take what is useful, absorb it and discard what you find does not apply to your situation. Compare it and contrast it to what you see here, on Boyle’s site, or anybody who writes for T-Nation and you will have so much awesome information you won’t know what to do with yourself.
Not to switch gears too much and granted this is very accusatory but it seems like somebody here has an agenda against Scott Abel. Either that or they are really bored.
If sometimes Scott Abel or any writer on here has something to say that you may not agree with (i.e. the dorian yates example) then great. We are all adults here, we are not little children who rely on other people to tell us what to do or what to think.
What started out as a thread seemingly designed to expose members of T-Nation to another resource for learning has somehow turned into a dope ladened flame fest. I find that really sad.
Shouldn’t have bothered, but I did read through this entire thread. I’m a client. Yup. And a huge amount of Scott’s ideas and writing went completely over my head until I’d been working with him for about a year and through a couple of show preps. Then a few light switches started to come on. Then I went back to some of his literature to connect a few more dots. I’m still learning and still progressing, still maturing, looking better all the time. And I’m no spring chicken.
Yeah, if you decide to hire someone like Scott because of his resume and expertise, you do have to make a leap of faith and accept that the theory and the “why” of what you’re doing may not always be apparent. I did at times wonder why I was doing such-and-such or whatever, but I made the decision to trust the process as an athlete and followed my programs exactly as prescribed.
No regrets. Frickin’ amazing results! And I’m a girl.
And, at the end of the day, these videos are free. There’s no obligation, no cost, nothing. Watch them or don’t. Scott is a helluva guy for putting this resource out there. For everyone.
There definitely has to be some organized blog and website monitoring going on amongst the Abel Body Squad - because whenever there’s a thread about him or an article written by him, his clients swarm them like a bunch of locusts. And it’s usually people who have only a few posts - with all of them being in threads regarding the dude.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: The guy DOES produce results; I even wrote that in this thread. You see, I’m humble and astute enough to know that I have no place to criticize his methods considering that he earns a livelihood from them and is VERY advanced himself. (If I recall correctly, he weighed 265 with low bodyfat.) That’s unlike him, who has the insane arrogance to say that, of all people, Dorian Yates could have progressed and looked better, despite the fact that he was one of, or THE best in the world for over a decade, and won his first show at age 23 after a year and a half of training! A man that held his own against a monster like Matt Mendenhall (Did you ever see that forgotten beast?)
We have a problem with his writings, not him as a human being (we know he’s not a bad guy) or what he does to get people in shape. I like some of his videos myself, and he brings up some GREAT points. But his articles are long-winded, poorly written, pedantic, and snobbish - and some of the stuff he says is ridiculous.
[quote]drewh wrote:
This is insane the dude has proven results and is way bigger than you so shut up you don’t have to read his stuff.[/quote]
I gotta shut the fuck up because someone is bigger than me? Are you serious?
And by the way, I have said, over and over, that he produces results. [/quote]
I’m starting to think that some people on this forum judge a person’s character by how big that person is. Sad. [/quote]
I’ve thought that some people on here do that too. Just because someone’s big, I can’t comment on their writing style?
I also don’t have to be scared or intimidated by someone bigger than me - although this can happen out of natural fear because of dealing with someone fucking huge. Weapons can help, though.
[quote]drewh wrote:
This is insane the dude has proven results and is way bigger than you so shut up you don’t have to read his stuff.[/quote]
I gotta shut the fuck up because someone is bigger than me? Are you serious?
And by the way, I have said, over and over, that he produces results. [/quote]
I’m starting to think that some people on this forum judge a person’s character by how big that person is. Sad. [/quote]
I’ve thought that some people on here do that too. Just because someone’s big, I can’t comment on their writing style?
I also don’t have to be scared or intimidated by someone bigger than me - although this can happen out of natural fear because of dealing with someone fucking huge. Weapons can help, though. [/quote]
Just ask him to explain innervation training (or whatever the hell it’s called) to you and he should be letting his guard down by the time he hits hypothetical page 50 of his epic monologue on the topic.
That would be your chance to escape (or to let loose with your slingshot), provided you’re not yet comatose.
Look folks- this is an open forum. Reading articles is optional. If the content is confusing, don’t read it. If you don’t like it, go to a different article. Why waste energy creating negativity? Put you energy into something positive instead.
