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incline more than flat :eek:

mind=blown
The good thing about the twins is that they lead me to this

Original post by MHorman
Go for it. Reckon i should be able to get more on bench considering i can almost do 5 sets of 3 at 80kg...

Also, didn't realise until posting in transformation contest that today was my first time of hitting 2*BW deadlift for 5 rps. :cool:

Have 1.5/1/2 *BW for at least 5 reps now.:biggrin:

Think you could get a 5RM on 80kg?
Hodgetwins are ****ing brilliant.

**** I wanna listen to Ian McCarthy for 20 minutes about PWO shakes. Lol, ****ing hell it's not difficult. You work out, you drink a shake at some point later. There, in 3 seconds.
so my boss from the job where I got laid off sent this:

Andrew hi,

I hope you are well.

I may have a position in the Bridgend office which would suit you if you are interested. Give me a call on xxx.

Regards,
Matthew

Hmmmm, so they lay me off when there is still loads of work, and now they need me back. lol
When I read that the first time I saw laid and three kisses and was like "fuuuuuu"

Then I read it again and understood.
Original post by Tango189
Think you could get a 5RM on 80kg?


Maybe? Did 77.5*5 followed by 80*2,2,2,1 today but i am a lot better at singles and doubles than high rep stuff.

Original post by commandant
so my boss from the job where I got laid off sent this:

Andrew hi,

I hope you are well.

I may have a position in the Bridgend office which would suit you if you are interested. Give me a call on xxx.

Regards,
Matthew

Hmmmm, so they lay me off when there is still loads of work, and now they need me back. lol


Nice one. Wouldn't complain at being offered a new job.

Google maps says it's like a 25 mile commute but it's better than no job by a long way...
Reply 7987
Original post by sil3nt_cha0s
incline more than flat :eek:

mind=blown

I know it may be seen as bro science, but incline for me helps the line at the top of the chest. My chest is my strongest point, but before I did incline it was 'droopy'. Incline helps fill it out more IMO.

Original post by commandant
so my boss from the job where I got laid off sent this:

Andrew hi,

I hope you are well.

I may have a position in the Bridgend office which would suit you if you are interested. Give me a call on xxx.

Regards,
Matthew

Hmmmm, so they lay me off when there is still loads of work, and now they need me back. lol

May as well take it while you can bro. You were obviously the best worker out of those let go :wink:
Anyone here watch Suits (TV show)?

I may have asked this question already today, I dunno lol.
Reply 7990
Original post by Michael XYZ
Anyone here watch Suits (TV show)?

I may have asked this question already today, I dunno lol.


Haven't seen it. One I do like which I really didn't think I would before I watched it was Sherlock. Amazing show, I love it.
Come the phuck at me carbs

Original post by Tango189
Think you could get a 5RM on 80kg?


Original post by MHorman
Maybe? Did 77.5*5 followed by 80*2,2,2,1 today but i am a lot better at singles and doubles than high rep stuff.
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Just got it. Probably could have got one more but I couldn't be bothered as I wanted to do get some dips and bicepts in :redface:

Probably try 82.5 next, on a cut anyway though so I'm not expecting much.

Original post by CB5
I know it may be seen as bro science, but incline for me helps the line at the top of the chest. My chest is my strongest point, but before I did incline it was 'droopy'. Incline helps fill it out more IMO.

Probably does, providing bf is low enough. How much do you do and for how many reps?
Reply 7993
Original post by Tango189
Probably does, providing bf is low enough. How much do you do and for how many reps?


Incline I focus on doing high reps mainly but work up towards a 6 rep set with 80kg. Usually just rep out a few sets of 10 reps with 60kg then move the weight up and the reps down.

Flat I haven't done in a while but I would hazard a guess at around 80-90kg for a few sets of 5reps. I mainly try and work high volume now.


****ing hell. Wow.
Original post by CB5
Incline I focus on doing high reps mainly but work up towards a 6 rep set with 80kg. Usually just rep out a few sets of 10 reps with 60kg then move the weight up and the reps down.

Flat I haven't done in a while but I would hazard a guess at around 80-90kg for a few sets of 5reps. I mainly try and work high volume now.

Cheers. Might try for a month in the summer along with DB inclines which I've never done before. Should be getting reps for 90 on incline by then.
Reply 7996
Original post by Michael XYZ
My incline bench press strength is ridiculously weak compared to my bench press. I guess doing heavy bench work before them takes a lot out of you but still. When my shoulder gets better really need to push it I think. Not sure if it would help my bench press, but it's definitely a big weakness. Generally shoulder strength is pretty crap. I did 60kg for a triple military press and my friend did 55kg for a triple. 5kg difference only. I've close-gripped 110kg, could probably get near a 115kg bench press whilst he can only do about 85-90kg.

Westside is all about bringing up weaknesses so, yes. No idea if it would help bench though. My only thing against doing ohp/military press is that I feel like it puts too much stress on shoulders. Benching does that already, so going to max on ohp is just one of the reasons that my shoulder is now injured. Dunno. Possibly a case of trying to do too many things at once?


I OHP heavy very regularly (5 reps of 67.5kg ish) and have never had any shoulder issues. It seems to me like it would be better for your shoulders than benching, which is how you got injured anyway wasn't it?
nice read
DC
Taken from his post on IntenseMuscle. Very interesting read

What does every starting out bodybuilder want in bodybuilding? To get the biggest the fastest way possible. What is the number one problem in bodybuilding? Getting shredded? Hamstring detail? separation? No its size. Most bodybuilders arent big enough and they need to be bigger, especially at the lower levels of the sport.

So what puts muscle mass on a person the quickest way possible? Training progressively recovering and training progressively again, repeat repeat repeat.

Everyone has a genetic blueprint, some will have standout arms, some have standout legs, some have standout chest and back, some have crappy everything, some have standout everything <---and this is the group you see usually go on to be very successfull bodybuilders if everything else falls into place. You dont see any of the top 10 Olympia guys walking around with no arms or a crappy back.

What you have in the beginning is what you are going to have in the end and it is starting to piss me off seeing how many bodybuilders on these boards have their heads up their ass in reasoning of what training CAN and CANNOT do. Peter Putnams back is subpar....do you think that is a product of his training routine or his genetic blueprint? ITS HIS GENETIC BLUEPRINT. His training routine didnt produce his subpar back, just like Milos's training routine didnt produce his subpar arms, just like titus's training routine didnt produce his subpar chest. Should I assume since Jay Cutler likes to do volume training that that training routine produced Jays wider waist? Did Markus Ruhls training routine produce his subpar triceps? Every single bodybuilder can try their best to improve weak bodyparts and if you get really intricate with it there are ways to do it (both with a quirky weird exercise way and also the Ruhl way..LOL)......but your genetic blueprint both impedes you and lets you succeed in the sport.

So back to DC training. What training routine will get your unique genetic blueprint the absolute largest muscle mass wise in the shortest time possible? IMO training bodyparts progressively 74 times a year or so beats training bodyparts progressively 52 times a year....and you quickly get up the size ladder which AGAIN is what this is all about. IN 4 years you would be doing close to 300 workouts for chest vs 200 workouts for chest in those 4 years with typical training. THATS A BIG DIFFERENCE in hypertrophy.

So where are you at that point? Are you large enough now that if i was training you I would change things frequency wise? You could be. But that beginning phase needed to be taken. Even today I have advanced guys who were injured or even someone like Dave Henry who want to put their size back on pronto and go back to the MON WEN FRI MON or MON TUES THURS FRI split.

So I want you to grasp something because I keep seeing people saying "this kind of training or that kind of training produces this"

Branch Warren and Johnny Jackson are training partners and have been for many many years off and on. Branch has also lifted with another guy for almost 20 years now. Without a doubt their progressive heavy training has produced incredible thickness (especially with Branch's and Johnny's chests), Johnny's back, their delts, their traps. There is no doubt that their progressively heavy slag iron training has resulted in serious dense tissue. Now their training.....The very same training that has lead to Branch's monstrous legs has produced Johnny Jackson's achilles heel (his leg size)....is Branch's training to blame? No its the genetic blueprint....could Johnny do something that increases his quad size a little bit more. Yea he would probably have to get pretty ingenious and figure out something weird that might eke (and i do mean eke because he is near 40 now and been training a long time) a little more size out of those quads.....but lets not mince words....he is never going to even get remotely close to Branch in quad size. The very same training that produced Branch and Johnny's insane thickness over the last 20 years has produced their training partners physique http://pics.musculardevelopment.com/...browse&id=4058

Im not taking anything away from Jay Moore but obviously he is not on the level of Branch or Johnny even though he has been blasting away for decades in the gym side by side with them. Do you see monstrous quads? Do you see the 6 inch thick pecs that johnny and branch have? Should I assume then that Branch Warren's training doesnt produce thick chests and results in subpar legs because of Johnny Jacksons and Jay Moore?
My point is this. DC training is devised to get you as large as humanly possible the absolute quickest....and at that point (if i was training you i would look at you and switch you over to something that i think can fix the weaknesses that your genetic blueprint has given us)....so hypothetically if you are 20 years old and 5'9 160 and want to be big one day.....you DC train for 4 years and now you give me a guy who is 5'9 210....awesome...i got a really good peice of clay to work with now.....whereas if you followed some 52 time a year bodypart training routine i might have a guy who is 5'9 185 and i have to tell you "well you need to put a few more years of bombing away into this bro because you still dont have the size"
So what do i do at a point that a guy has gotten up to a good size bodybuilder? I access his physique and i go after his weaknesses. If at that point he is really good size muscle mass wise but with some weaknesses, do you know how much easier my job just got? 1000 times over easier.
So you guys allready know this but i split the body into roughly 2 ways for guys who need muscle mass and need it the fastest way possible. For intermediate guys I still want them building muscle mass fast so i usually split the body up threeways and work on some weaker bodyparts that way with extra work.
At the elite levels where you are talking a really big boy, someone like Cedric or Dusty or Dave or Dave Smith or Homonuncleus or someone who has alot of muscle mass packed on their frame.....I like to go with this plan of attack usually

sunday chest and abs
monday biceps and forearms and calves and abs
tuesday hams and quads
wenesday off
thursday shoulders and triceps and abs
friday back calves and abs
sat off

Why? Because their size is built...they need to increase in size still which this still does .....but the number one problem at this level is how to bring up weaker bodyparts usually.

So a sunday chest workout might look like something like this

incline smith press
all warmups and then
allout restpause set for 13-20rp

Hoist or Hammer decline press
all warmups and then
allout restpause set for 13-20rp

Flat dumbell press
all warmups and then
allout STRAIGHT set for 12 reps

stretch

rope pulldown ab crunch
warmups and then all out set for 30 reps rest paused or 20 reps straight.

Now if that person had a weak bodypart I would probably get pretty unique with his training...and find weird exercises that put him into mechanical positions that he hasnt done before.......for example biceps...if someone has been doing biceps for many years they have used the plethora of exercises out there...and all variations of curls are obviously not doing the trick....i have them do 3 distinct variations for biceps that they have never done before and that usually gets their biceps to respond...(I hit on this a while back with that GET WEIRD WITH IT thread i left)

I digress.....so what you are seeing above is a gameplan. A gameplan that alot of people are forgetting about.....a gameplan alot of people on other boards who have their head up their ass just dont grasp....

How do you become an elite bodybuilder trainingwise as quickly as possible?
By following a routine by a professional bodybuilder who is allready massive and doing every foo foo exercise he does (even when it wont do jack **** for you right now except to impede into your recovery so you cannot train that bodypart again quickly?)
or
Train progressively and short with alot of frequency.....get your overall size up as quickly as possible....at that point you might have standout bodyparts and some bodyparts that are somewhat behind or heck you might be pretty even......you then reaccess your physique (AT A POINT WHERE YOU TRULY HAVE ENOUGH MUSCLE MASS THAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING IF YOU ARE A BODYBUILDER) and at an intermediate point try to keep getting bigger by compromising a little bit of frequency with widowmakers and weird exercises to get weaker bodyparts to respond.......tiem goes by.........you then get to a point where you are a pretty massive individual and frequency goes to the point where everyone else is at and you get after it getting subpar bodyparts up.

Is the gameplan clearer? Nothing pains me more than seeing a guy with 16 inch arms wondering if he isnt doing enough volume and thats why he isnt growing.

HERE IS THE BASIC SECRET...IM GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU...YOUR GOING TO FEEL REALLY DUMB AFTER READING THIS SECRET BECAUSE YOU ALLREADY KNEW IT

The road that takes you here (most importantly FOOD, supplements, and if you make that decisions someday... even drugs) and the day you

Incline press 405 for 12 reps
smith military press 330 for 12 reps
deadlift 550 for 12 reps
close grip bench press 405 for 12 reps
deep squat 500 for 20 reps
pulldown 400 for 15 reps
dumbell curl 80's cleanly for 20 reps
etc etc etc etc

or just the road you take in trying to achieve the above will result in you being massive as a bodybuilder....within what your own genetic blueprint will allow you.....if you have ronnie colemans blueprint let me be the first one to congratulate you on your Mr Olympia wins.

It is that simple....
Cell-tech all day errday.

Simples.

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