do you agree with Arnold

[x-trainer ben]

https://youtube.com/shorts/2rlK9PYYQ...NEITHOSff92kEG

After years of trial and error i sure do!

[LWW]

Yes, you should trick the body every time.

[Tommy W.]

100%

[LWW]

Here is something else by Arnold and I been saying the same “you have to figure it out”. This is why I dont agree with programs.

Now I heard one guy dog instinct training saying that your instinct is to not train hard, NO instinct is maybe you feel like crap but you go in that day feeling like crap but you do something new and end up training harder than ever.

However you should be careful here, this does not mean you can’t do what some else is doing for a day which is good, you take that and add something to it.

https://youtu.be/sriliys6BoM?si=0CQjA149L3lW8ZhK

[mtpockets]

https://youtube.com/shorts/2rlK9PYYQ...NEITHOSff92kEG

After years of trial and error i sure do!

When I was in my teens a couple of local bodybuilders/powerlifters took the time to teach me the ropes. This is something they preached and I have been employing it ever since. Shocking the body is the best tool in the bodybuilding tool box IMO

[LWW]

When I was in my teens a couple of local bodybuilders/powerlifters took the time to teach me the ropes. This is something they preached and I have been employing it ever since. Shocking the body is the best tool in the bodybuilding tool box IMO

When was the last time you did curls?

[pondus_levo]

https://youtube.com/shorts/2rlK9PYYQ...NEITHOSff92kEG

After years of trial and error i sure do!

I wonder if he also stopped injecting to confuse his body to get bigger.

[mtpockets]

When was the last time you did curls?

Monday, June 10th, 2024, 3:36 am

[LWW]

Did anyone catch in the link I posted Arnold saying he loaded more weight on one side of the dumbbell doing curls cause that hits the bicep differently?

I’m gonnna try that tomorrow!

[mtpockets]

When was the last time you did curls?

When is the last time you did any calf work?

[LWW]

When is the last time you did any calf work?

Been a month or so, (standing raises on the plate with bar on back for 50-60reps) I’m always only thinking of the arms/shoulders for extra work when I have time.

I think I will add calf raise to my compound movement I posted the other day.

I will also start walking up the steps on tippy toes.

Arnold had the same problem coming up, he didn’t do calf work, but when it was time, he hit them everyday and got results.

[Deathstroke]

💯 on milk is for babies when you grow up you have to drink beer.

[OldFartTom]

Close to useless.

He tells us that doing the same over and over will lead to stagnation. No **** Sherlock.

But from a man with enormous experience and expertise, he offers precious little advice on the tactics that did and didn't work for him and others.

Maybe the short was taken from a longer bit of advice that's useful, but as it stands... useless!

Probably not Arnold's fault, he seems quite a helpful guy by nature. I'm guessing whoever edited that is at fault!

[Bodhy]

Mandatory reading: https://rippedbody.com/work-capacity/



IMO it is volume that drives the bodies long term growth. Long term progress will demand more volume, and your capacity to adapt to the volume over time. So a lot of volume but below high intensity can work. Then, push up the intensity with heavier weight again.


Have you tried a deload week? This helps if you feel your gym sessions are losing passion and you're just running through the motions and same exercises. You train at half the weight you usually use, and come back a week later.

[LWW]

IMO


Have you tried a deload week?

IMO there shouldn’t be any planning of a deload week.

IMO deload is ONLY for when you are so sore you risk injury.

IMO, if you think you are going to deload that day, and start feeling stronger instantly or try something new, then go as hard as you can, safely.

[mtpockets]

Mandatory reading: https://rippedbody.com/work-capacity/



IMO it is volume that drives the bodies long term growth. Long term progress will demand more volume, and your capacity to adapt to the volume over time. So a lot of volume but below high intensity can work. Then, push up the intensity with heavier weight again.


Have you tried a deload week? This helps if you feel your gym sessions are losing passion and you're just running through the motions and same exercises. You train at half the weight you usually use, and come back a week later.

I have used deloads in the past, they work. It's a tool that many bodybuilders use to enhance long-term progress. It works!

I have been running PPL for quite a while and do one PPL heavy low rep session, followed by the next PPL low weight high rep. Rinse and repeat. I haven't really felt the need to deload on this but I have taken some time off occasionally.

Not a deload but there was a time that I took July and August off every year, actually planning on taking an entire month off this year..


Good luck with your training Bhody.

[x-trainer ben]

Close to useless.

He tells us that doing the same over and over will lead to stagnation. No **** Sherlock.

But from a man with enormous experience and expertise, he offers precious little advice on the tactics that did and didn't work for him and others.

Maybe the short was taken from a longer bit of advice that's useful, but as it stands... useless!

Probably not Arnold's fault, he seems quite a helpful guy by nature. I'm guessing whoever edited that is at fault!

Just recall that everything online is not for everybody. This is why we have the labels beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert.
I never stop learning and since I am into this now several decades, I still am learning new things and reminded of things that I forgot decades earlier. The same goes for movies, Tyler.Perry movies and horror are not for me.

[LWW]

Everything works, until it doesn’t, for hypertrophy you really should do everything out there and invent your own ways too.

The only that does not work which I just read here is taking off a month, that won’t do anything for hypertrophy.

I haven’t conventional dead lifted in over 3-weeks now because I’m healing a low back issue I got from maxing out. Instead of resting I’ve been doing Jefferson Lift but deloaded because my back feels pain as I approach the 400# mark, but it’s getting better every week.

I also deloaded when the tendinitis was really bad, never stopped though, so I’m still growing!

[mtpockets]

Everything works, until it doesn’t, for hypertrophy you really should do everything out there and invent your own ways too.

The only that does not work which I just read here is taking off a month, that won’t do anything for hypertrophy.

I haven’t conventional dead lifted in over 3-weeks now because I’m healing a low back issue I got from maxing out. Instead of resting I’ve been doing Jefferson Lift but deloaded because my back feels pain as I approach the 400# mark, but it’s getting better every week.

I also deloaded when the tendinitis was really bad, never stopped though, so I’m still growing!

If I were you I wouldn't take any time off either...

Keep going, you'll get there.

Good Luck!

[LWW]

If I were you I wouldn't take any time off either...

Keep going, you'll get there.

Good Luck!

Little guys do have to work harder!

Little Franco eventually got thicker than Arnie.

[LWW]

Not a deload but there was a time that I took July and August off every year, actually planning on taking an entire month off this year..

Since you like making threads about old bass turds. You should put this one in one of your old people threads. LOL.

[mtpockets]

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I see that my Stalker, aka Sparkle Farts, Twiggy and many more aliases have been by sprinkling his usual pleasantries.

The least I can do is respond to his nonsense after all it is sunday


Don't lose your sh!t Sparkle Farts...




LMAO.

Taking time off has absolutely nothing to do with age, nice try though. Let me enlighten you a tad to the benefits of time off so sit back with a coffee, get that reading finger out and enjoy



Personally, for a few years I used to take the summers off because the young fellow was out of school and we would spend the summer months on adventures creating memories. I don’t regret one second of it and taking the time off didn’t hinder me but enhanced my life and lifting goals.

Kids grow up and move on, the weights are in the gym forever. I also came back stronger than ever. Most people who take time off do.

How many kids do you have, Twiggy?

Did you get to spend quality time with them?



Still working out the logistics for this summer's adventure (originally scheduled for next year) and if it comes through, I will take a month off, it will be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Fingers crossed. The gym will still be there upon my return.

I get it, it appears that your entire life revolves around lifting, sad, but that’s great if it works for you that what counts, for most of us that isn’t the case, personally, I would be bored as sh!t if that were me.


Taking time off isn’t the end of the world for most lifters, they will lose very little and muscle memory will ensure that it will come back in a short time upon return. No big deal for most of us.


There are people here that have taken years off some decades and they overshadow you, Yet you go at it like you are killing snakes. Why is that I wonder? Probably because they are getting proper nutrition, rest and recovery in concert with quality lifting. I am not saying what you are doing isn't or wont work but it's going to take a lot longer and not the best approach.


If a person has a solid build, they can take time off and not lose a lot or gain it back fast.
You are not at this stage yet. If you take time off you will lose a lot because you’re basically chasing a pump not giving the muscle the proper nutrition, rest and recovery.


You have a lot to learn when it comes to bodybuilding, you’ll get there one day, just not today.

I am not going to argue or debate this, unlike you, it isn’t bullsh!t that I made up, it’s well known proven and documented facts, so you can accept them or not. No skin off my ass either way


Some food for thought:


In summary, you can’t build a brick house without a good foundation otherwise you’ll just end up with a bouncy castle, Good news though, all that is needed to build a bouncy castle is a pump


Have a great day twiggy! Keep spreading that joy