weight traning (Re: how to eat *enough* on the warrior...

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No offence of course, but you'll never look like a true bodybuilder

even if you tried. It's like women getting scared of getting 'big';

it just doesn't happen!

That's an interesting rep-set scheme going. Special way to do waves.

There are better ways though. It should yield neurological gains but

hypertrophy as well (due to the volume).

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> I'm about 5' 7 1/2 " . I guess this must give me a mechanical

advantage for

> the squat too, but not the deadlift, which I'm also increasing my

weight as

> rapidly. The way I'm training seems to be conducive to muscle,

since I'm not only

> increasing weight but am clearly adding muscle to my body by looking

at it

> and feeling it.

>

> I'm following a chart that's called " the power matrix " that's on the

bulletin

> board at the gym. So if I'm doing 195 on the squat I'll do six sets

that

> look like this:

>

> 8 of 145

> 5 of 165

> 3 of 175

> 1 of 195

> 1 of 195

> 1 of 195

> 5 of 165

>

> I'm trying to train for adding muscle but a priority of making that

muscle

> the most efficient muscle possible. So strength comes before bulk

for me, but I

> do want to add more muscle. I consider looking better a worthy side

benefit,

> though I would never want to look like a body builder, which I

consider kind

> of ugly.

>

> I'll look into olympic lifting at some point, maybe after this

semester ends.

>

> Chris

>

> In a message dated 9/10/03 4:04:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> paultheo2000@y... writes:

>

> > That was at the time...I no longer really weightrain (cept

occasionally).

> >

> > Well like I said...it has a lot to do with neural adaptation. There

> > are 150lb men who benchpress 400 pounds. Or Deadlift 600! The way you

> > train determines in what way you adapt. I never particularly enjoyed

> > training for hypertrophy; it just didn't see as rewarding to me. Btw,

> > I'm only 5'8 so I had a mechanical advantage at squatting, although

> > not at deadlifting.

> >

> > BTW, you seem to have the right ideas about using compound movements.

> > If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend Olympic Lifts; they're

> > even better than the Powerlifting Big Three.

>

>

> " To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or

that we are

> to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and

> servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. "

--Theodore Roosevelt

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