Do you have a pre-planned workout for each day or just go by feel ?

[gycgordon]

do you have a weekly schedule with a certain number of sets/exercises for each muscle group etc or do you just enter the gym and then start working out by feel (i kinda merge the two) ?

[Bumpus]

Yes, set plan...months in advance provided I hit my reps each week.

Your plan is what is known as phuckarounditis.

Most would find going by feel hard to make and track progress.

[renferos]

no one will ever discredit feeling as it is super important in the flow chart of bodybuilding success. However, it does become harder to weed out what variables may be influencing your results.

Can you say Hybrid

Not the ****gy prias.

[IDrinkBloodLOL]

Personally, I like to plan the exercises and then do the sets/reps by feel.

These days I have a little anatomy chart in my head, and what I like to do is start with my neck muscles and work down my body muscle by muscle. I won't do it all in one day, it usually takes two upper body days and one lower body day. The sets/reps I just do in sets of 10 by feel, always pushing to go heavier but not so heavy that I can't do it right. I usually try to do at least 3, ideally 4 sets per muscle.

[GTay]

I go in with an idea of what i want to work but with no set programme... I should probably get a proper one so i can track my progress but I quite like just doing what the fukkk i wana do

[renferos]

I go in with an idea of what i want to work but with no set programme... I should probably get a proper one so i can track my progress but I quite like just doing what the fukkk i wana do

That may explain why your chest looks so small.

[ironwill2008]

do you have a weekly schedule with a certain number of sets/exercises for each muscle group etc

Absolutely. Without a structured routine, there's no way to track progress.

or do you just enter the gym and then start working out by feel (i kinda merge the two) ?

^^^^ You're just chasing your own tail doing this, and will leave you looking pretty much the same in a year as you do now.

If you haven't long-since given up due to lack of progress.

[LiftStrong21]

Have never tracked diet, work-outs, or routines. Have seen amazing results, two year window BTW.

155-205 in two years.

[JSNeves]

However, it does become harder to weed out what variables may be influencing your results.

This is a very good point!

This also why the only people I've known to succeed going entirely by feel were very experienced lifters

[renferos]

Have never tracked diet, work-outs, or routines. Have seen amazing results, two year window BTW.

155-205 in two years.

I bet you make mamma proud that you throw caution to the wind. Why are you on this site and not www.magicbuilding.com

Your approach is the exact opposite of scientific method and I resent you for you beliefs.

[GTay]

That may explain why your chest looks so small.

Ive only been going to the gym for 4 months which can explain that as well... and i have seen some good gains in those 4 months maybe noob gains though

[renferos]

Ive only been going to the gym for 4 months which can explain that as well... and i have seen some good gains in those 4 months maybe noob gains though

Well apply scientific method like the rest of us excluding Liftstrong.

You'll be doing yourself a huge favor in the end.

[chazzy1864]

I have a plan but when I'm at the gym I can and will make on the spot adjustments.

[Yodums]

I won't repeat what has already been said about having a plan. However, I'd like to mention I do throw in random isolation exercises and as well omit exercises depending on how I feel in the gym.

[qoohhlt]

Hm I set a plan in my brain and see how my muscle react in the gym. I might change one or two small things during workout.

[Bumpus]

Have never tracked diet, work-outs, or routines. Have seen amazing results, two year window BTW.

155-205 in two years.

I can do that too without ever stepping in a gym.

Your claims are meaningless without progress pics.

[DoubleChub]

at my weight, just going to the gym is enough, no plans, workout whatever doesn't hurt from the day before.

[gycgordon]

i have a plan but when i'm at the gym i can and will make on the spot adjustments.

***this my friends***

[LivingStrongE]

All my training is pre planned before I step foot in a gym. This prevents me from walking around the gym looking at machines and weights wondering what to do.

[neklobomex]

I have a plan.

This way I can track progress. I do this by drawing a graph on the computer with a curve for every exercise. I like graphs. I have one for my body weight too.

[ThickAsABrick]

I have a plan but when I'm at the gym I can and will make on the spot adjustments.

This.

Some days it makes sense to back off, some says it's good to push it. Train long enough and you'll know what to do when.

[JHOLMES15LPM]

I go in with a plan, but like others have said... You are always subject to a change of plans. Alot of what I do revolves on whether or not my shoulder is acting up.

[CreoleFever]

All my training is pre planned before I step foot in a gym. This prevents me from walking around the gym looking at machines and weights wondering what to do.

i was that guy a year ago..... feelsbadman

Brb, asking employees how to work machine

Brb, trying to find the instructions

Brb, crying in locker room

[BOOGADA]

I use to do whatever but since I have a plan my results have been much better.

[Kingthumper]

I have a plan but when I'm at the gym I can and will make on the spot adjustments.

This.

Some days it makes sense to back off, some says it's good to push it. Train long enough and you'll know what to do when.

I approach my training like these guys. I always have a plan, track my major compound lifts (sets/reps/lbs), but often make changes to isolation movements (sets/reps/lbs).

[wwarrior2469]

I have a plan.

This way I can track progress. I do this by drawing a graph on the computer with a curve for every exercise. I like graphs. I have one for my body weight too.

[neklobomex]

haha that's hilarious

[CookAndrewB]

To sum up my thoughts on this subject: If something is important (getting bigger, getting stronger, getting leaner), you should be tracking that metric in every way you can imagine. If it gets measured, it will get managed, and you will have useful (relevant) data that will allow you to make smart course corrections, not just random changes.

There are varying degrees of planning that I don't have issue with. In the case of Chazzy or TAB, they have a plan and make reasonable alterations to that plan without straying from the theme of the day. If you have no plan, and/or every alteration sees you benching when you should be doing something else, I would say that starts to be problematic to your goals. If you have no goal, then I would agree that doing "whatever" is a suitable plan... since you don't have a destination to reach, and doing whatever you please will likely never get you anywhere, then you are on the right track

[neklobomex]

I've been wondering for a while why so few people at my gym carry a pen and paper with them like I do. How do people remember what weights they use for every exercise? This is a mystery to me...

[chazzy1864]

I've been wondering for a while why so few people at my gym carry a pen and paper with them like I do. How do people remember what weights they use for every exercise? This is a mystery to me...

A little thing called memory. Crazy sh*t, I know.