MEEKmlz
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This was a great read!
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What dose it take to be a competive bodybuilder these days.
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Thanks mate im glad you enjoyed it and welcome.
MEEKmlz
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Thank u sir!
MEEKmlz
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I have been using ur method of one muscle group a week for years now. Even though some "doctors" on this board claim that that is an "inferior" way to train and they tell people on this board to do a full body workout 3 times a week with only 3 sets per muscle group haha the results speak for them selves. And u cant argue with results. But I guess thats why they are doctors and not body builders! Lol.
Thanks again for sharing ur experience.
Thanks again for sharing ur experience.
Looks like Bill Pearl.
Welcome man. You really look good. At first I thought that was Bill Pearl.
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Negative definitely not bill pearl lol
How many sets are typical for each muscle group?
Bass is one of my heroes. Him and Zane.
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Most of the pro,s I know will only train one muscle group per week, some will only train one muscle group every 9 days.
It really does make sense when you think about it this way, all of the growing takes place out of the gym, recovery is the key, you want to damage the muscle fibres just enough so that they are fully recovered buy the time the next workout is due, therefore recovery of the muscle should be our priority.
Short duration and intense workouts provide the necessary stimulation while allowing for maximum recovery time, I find this to be the most effective method to keep progressing and moving forward.
Besides this you will find that the smaller muscle groups like arms and shoulders will actually get hit twice a week if your training back and chest on separate days to arms and shoulders.
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Wow what a complement, thank you your very kind.
Wish I was in the same class as Bill pearl but im afraid not, I do remember him none the less, amazing biceps that seemed to grow right out of his elbow joints, they were incredibility long, Arnold like if you will.
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It really depends on my energy level for that day, usually it between 10-15 sets for the smaller muscle groups and 15-20 for the larger.
There will be days however when I come in and say im training biceps and preacher curls are first on the list, if im getting a particular good feeling from the preacher then I might sticky with it and do as many sets as I deem fit until my biceps are done then move onto triceps.
I always go in with a plan but there will be days when instinct takes over and my body will tell me what it needs.
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Both great bodybuilders, Clarence was probably one of the leaders when it came to training one body part per week and Frank had incredible symmetry, like a smaller version of Bob Paris.
I by far an instinctual trainer. I just posted that yesterday on Brutus'/johnnyballs workout thread. Must listen to the mind/body.
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Yes we all have the best personal trainer available, its your own body.
Get to know it well enough and it will tell you what it needs, having said that there are days when for what ever reason I just can't seem to get in tune with my workout and its absolute shit. Those days I just write off and forget, nobody has balls to the wall workouts 100% of the time.
Nope, the body couldn't take it.
I've been training hard since I was about 12 and now 47. There's days I am zen in the gym, others....Mr. Magoo trying to find his way out of a phone booth. But, that's life.
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Lmao I used to love that cartoon, Oh Magoo you've done it again.
Had a couple of Magoo workouts myself, come to think of it I frequently have Magoo days lol.
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Its been a while since I posted so I thought I would keep this up dated I hope you guys don't mind.
Since my last comp ive been in hospital having a hernia opp no big deal and all went well although I couldn't wait to get out, bloody morphine based drugs are never enough when your 5'6 and weigh 240lb, give me a sleeping pill and let the body do its thing every day of the week.
Plus I got a male nurse, just my luck no hot babes in stay up stockings with silicon tits.
Any way it got me to thinking about this life style and would I recommend it to kids.
My wife and I don't have children because it just didn't happen for us but it reminded me of a story that I heard a long time ago and I would like to share it with you. It goes as follows.
There was this bodybuilder walking along the beach and this young boy walked up to him and said, I want to be like you.
The bodybuilder grabbed his hand and walked with the boy out into the surf about waist height, then he grab him buy the hair and held him under the water until the boy stop kicking, finally he let him up and the boy took a large breath of air, spewed out all that salt water and ran crying away.
When I first heard this story im doing what your doing right now, I was pissed off, wanted to have apiece of this fuckwit for doing such a horrible thing to a insistent young child, but I got to read on and then there was this.
He said to that young boy when you want to be like me as much as you wanted that next breath then come and see me, but not before because this lifestyle is nothing to be praised about.
The point being and im know guru buy any means, is this sport takes a toll on you and I love it. It gives me pleasure doing what others cant and im only a amateur nothing special here but if I had children I would hate them to follow in my foot steps.
Guys reading this and especially the younger one's I wish some one had sat me down and had this conversation.
Think carefully about what you do today because it determines tomorrow.
Again thank you for letting me have a voice hear and I hope to contribute many more stories without the Bullshit in the future.
Since my last comp ive been in hospital having a hernia opp no big deal and all went well although I couldn't wait to get out, bloody morphine based drugs are never enough when your 5'6 and weigh 240lb, give me a sleeping pill and let the body do its thing every day of the week.
Plus I got a male nurse, just my luck no hot babes in stay up stockings with silicon tits.
Any way it got me to thinking about this life style and would I recommend it to kids.
My wife and I don't have children because it just didn't happen for us but it reminded me of a story that I heard a long time ago and I would like to share it with you. It goes as follows.
There was this bodybuilder walking along the beach and this young boy walked up to him and said, I want to be like you.
The bodybuilder grabbed his hand and walked with the boy out into the surf about waist height, then he grab him buy the hair and held him under the water until the boy stop kicking, finally he let him up and the boy took a large breath of air, spewed out all that salt water and ran crying away.
When I first heard this story im doing what your doing right now, I was pissed off, wanted to have apiece of this fuckwit for doing such a horrible thing to a insistent young child, but I got to read on and then there was this.
He said to that young boy when you want to be like me as much as you wanted that next breath then come and see me, but not before because this lifestyle is nothing to be praised about.
The point being and im know guru buy any means, is this sport takes a toll on you and I love it. It gives me pleasure doing what others cant and im only a amateur nothing special here but if I had children I would hate them to follow in my foot steps.
Guys reading this and especially the younger one's I wish some one had sat me down and had this conversation.
Think carefully about what you do today because it determines tomorrow.
Again thank you for letting me have a voice hear and I hope to contribute many more stories without the Bullshit in the future.
Welcome back.
Good story and much truth to it. I started WAY TOO YOUNG in this sport. Even though I don't compete now, I still train like I do. My body doesn't feel right if I don't.
My wise old grandmother told me when I started lifting consistently around 12 years of age, that once you start you'll always have too. I didn't understand what she meant until I tried to take time off in my late twenties. No bueno. My body and mind felt lost. It was like going without eating. She was an exercise fanatic for her time, same with my grandfather. She was right on as usual.
Funny about the male nurse. I would got some old hag that wanted to give me multiple sponge baths a day! ha ha.
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