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swanso5

Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 5983
Location: melbourne, australia
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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- how long have you been doing the deads for? whatever it is, on week 5 you should work up to a 5 rep max to see where you are...you can stop when you like but try and go as heavy as you can but feel comfortable to see where you're really at...you may be (and probably are) lifting well below your potential...you could probably do close to 100pds today if you wanted to
- never too much fish oil
- once you get deads down then o lifts can be taught off them as long as you really get your hip extension going at ther top range of motion of deads...once you can do that you can easily learn hang cleans, cleans from floor and depending on agility/foot quickness split snatches, push jerks etc
- i would love for you to start a journal...start tomorrow...food and training in the same one |
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darius3000

Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 42
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: upper/lower body split |
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Wow Swanson, this post really made me feel good as I have been doing this routine for probably the past 3 weeks and had done it consecutively for 3 months earlier in the year, doing one heavy day and one light day for upper and lower body (4 workouts/week) and let me tell you, it works! It lets you build mass and also work more on tone, which I wanted to do at the same time, not focus just on cutting/buring fat and not just on building mass. Great advice! I highly recommend it!
as i've posted 1 million times, you should really train movements not muscles of which are there are 6 main one's
1 - shoulder press variations
2 - pull/chin up variations
3 - bench press/push up variations
4 - row variations
5 - glute/ham variations
6 - quad variations (last 2 can overlap a little)
now wherther you do full body workouts or lower/upper splits (the only splits you should be doing), these movements are the one's to train...this ensures that you are using compound exercises and not wasting time trying to "blast your delts with 5pd lateral raises" to build shoulder width |
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