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29-05-2005, 07:13 PM
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 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bristol Posts: 3,232 Rep Power:  |  My latest training, lifts and pics Scroll down to the bottom of this: http://nickatbristol.tripod.com/ Training is going good and have been working very hard recently Current i'm on this split: day 1: shoulders and biceps day 2: legs day 3: chest and triceps day 4: back day 5: rest Loving the intensity and not finding any overtraining problems just as yet. I do abs when i can be bothered, about every 2 days. My lifts have got bigger, currently: Deadlift: 175kg Leg press: 280kg bench: 120kg shoulder press (smith): 80kg My diet is awesome atm: roughly 6 meals a day (including shakes/home made mrps) without letting 3 hours go without some kind of intake involving protein. calories roughly 3500 My current weight is larger than ever before, at 13 stone 9. You can see some latest photos i took about a month ago here: although i was only 13 stone 3 then. Let us know what u think ! ______________________ - Obsession is what lazy people call dedication - |
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30-05-2005, 04:48 AM
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| Making Progress Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: in South York Posts: 101 Rep Power:  | Hi man Good shape, just keep it up 2it  I wish I could make those like 6 times a day... So basically, u train 4 days a week right?? and 3 days off?? Hmm I would suggest doing ya legs on the end of ya training plan... that means last trenning day, so htey got more days to rest/recover.... maybe it does not make sence but it legs r the biggest muscle part n need a lot of rest! |
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01-06-2005, 01:20 PM
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| Making Progress  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: northwest Posts: 191 Rep Power: | just looking at your routine- i would make one change but i suppose it is a personal thing i would swap the bicep and tricep over. my theory being that the tricep could be quite exausted depending on the intensity of your chest workout, i know with some of my chest routines when your chest reaches failure then your triceps will do some of the work. With regards to your comment on over training once again it is a personal thing i think you do 4and 1 and i do 6 and 1. mon:chest and biceps tue:legs wed:shoulders and triceps thu:back fri:biceps sat:traps sun  ffdue to my shifts at work etc.. i can only train for set lengths of time so that is why i only do 1 bodypart on 4 days.It works for me and it keeps me from being at home with the girlfriend. ______________________ www.eph25plus.co.uk |
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02-06-2005, 08:20 AM
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| Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bristol Posts: 3,232 Rep Power: | its a good point madmonkey to some extent i'm not going to work my triceps as hard if i'm 'stacking' them (ok bad pun...) with chest. But my thinking is, if triceps are involved compound in many chest exercises, then you are inevitably going to train them anyway, so by doing triceps on another day you will over train them. might as well hit em hard whilst they are already being hit as a result of compound. How comes you got a dedicated traps day? 'It works for me and it keeps me from being at home with the girlfriend.' haha nick ______________________ - Obsession is what lazy people call dedication - |
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02-06-2005, 10:29 AM
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| Making Progress Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: northwest Posts: 191 Rep Power: | I do traps on their own because i do 4 exercises on them and if i add them on to any one of my training days it would increase the time by about 20mins so i leave them till saturday when i can easily fit them in and give it 100%. Since doing this i have noticed a big difference in size and strength. once again it works for me so that is what i do. going back to the tricep issue-because you have used them in your chest routine then you might of fatigued the muscle by as much as 20-30% which means you will not be lifting or training to your maximum strength. I note your comment on over training them but triceps is quite a large muscle and you are actually only training it the once as i would not call the use of the tricep in bench pressing etc as a tricep routine and you are not pushing the tricep to failure. once again this is all my opinion and have no factual info to back any of this up!!! ______________________ www.eph25plus.co.uk |
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02-06-2005, 03:00 PM
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| Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bristol Posts: 3,232 Rep Power: | madmonkey i dont only train triceps as part of a compound chest exercise i do skull crushers, rope pulldowns, dips and other stuff thrown in on a chest day just for triceps... so compound and isolated exercises both. nick ______________________ - Obsession is what lazy people call dedication - |
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02-06-2005, 03:13 PM
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| Making Progress Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: northwest Posts: 191 Rep Power: | i realised that, i was making the point of you saying that you thought you might over train your triceps if you did biceps after chest and triceps after shoulders because you felt it would be training them twice as you had already used them during your chest routine thus creating the over training senario. I was disagreeing with you and putting my arguement forward for moving your triceps to the shoulder day and visa versa. ______________________ www.eph25plus.co.uk |
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