My training advice…what works for me.
1: start off light to warm up… work your way up to your heavy sets.
2: at least 3 heavy sets (4-6 reps max)
3: after heavy sets do burnouts until you cant go anymore (lighter weight) Also use lots of dropsets and supersets in your routine.
4: do this for every set of exercises you do. At least do 3 exercises per body part
(The whole idea here is to hit your fast and slow twitch muscles every workout)
5: Try to make it to the gym 6 days a week
6: Always train with high intensity. If your going through the motions your wasting time and money.
7: Always workout to get sore the next day. If you didnt get sore you didn’t push yourself hard enough
8: You got to go big to get big! Put more weight on! Shock your muscles! Do negatives if you have to.
9: This is probably the most important one as far as training goes: ALWAYS change your routine up. If you do the same thing every time you workout, your not hitting different muscle fibers and your not getting as much growth as you could.
10: EAT everything you can, if your not gaining weight in a months time, your not eating enough. If you put on fat, increase cardio…its a formula
11: Only do cardio at the end of your workout: dont waste a whole day doing cardio. Your focused on getting big, not buring calories.
12: Feel your body growing (mentally and physically)
13: If you always have good form, you are not going heavy enough (dont get me wrong, form is very important, but sometimes you need to focus on heavier weight where your form might not be perfect)
14: Working out should never be a job, if it gets tedious, take a break.
that is the way i grew best and might not be right for everyone…take it for what it is worth!
July 27, 2007 at 6:17 am
Looks like you’ve found something that works well for you. I kind of cringe at 7 and 12, just because I deal a lot with people who would get injured if I trained them that hard and lost form.
Just be careful, esp with form. Breaking that just to go heavy can lead to injury. And injuring yourself is not worth the possible loss in strength and size in the long run.
But, so far so good, and you look great. Keep it up, work hard, enjoy success!
August 19, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Good thinking. I would add 1 more. Positive and stress free mind. Stress = Cortisol.
September 5, 2007 at 10:50 am
I know i have gotten into a lot of arguements with trainers about going heavy. But honestly you have to push heavy weight to put on size. At least i know i do. Also if you look at all the biggest guys in the gym, they are all pushing heavy weight.
Potitive attidue is defnitley a necessity!
September 7, 2007 at 3:10 pm
wow man, thats the closest thing to a perfect workout routine i’ve seen yet. Heavy is right i think to put on mass.If anyone disagrees then just tell them to look at how much mass you’ve put on. Right ?!? LOL. I agree too a/b the cardio. I envy you bro,
September 12, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Thanks man! A lot of people dont agree, but this is what works for me. So hopefully it will work for others also!