My Training Philosophy (Please comment on your thoughts)

[Vas85]

Hey Everyone,

About 2 weeks ago something struck me about how we (specifically I) work out.

In our usual fashion... for example if you're training the Chest you'd do possibly the following type of workout for it.... (increasing weight each set for each exercise)

4sets of Decline (8-10reps)
4sets of Flat Bench (8-10reps)
4sets of Incline (8-10reps)
4sets of Chest Press (8-10reps)

The above is normally done in sequence of one after other... but what struck me was if you've done your last set on Decline that should in theory be near your max working set, why then lower down and climb back up when you're doing Flat Bench and then Incline and so on... With that in mind I created my own workout philosophy that i've sofar applied to my quad/ham workouts and tricep workouts and I must say that in my 4 or so odd years of lifting i'd never done workouts for my legs or tri's that had given me the satisfaction that this philosophy has.

Here it is;
http://vasboz.googlepages.com/Ultima...outineEver.pdf

Exercise Image Descriptions:


Exercise E is like the tricep pushdown but you may have seen some of the IFBB Pro's do it... where you lean forward slightly and bring it up to the bottom of your chest and push back down.

Oh and one last thing I do is I always count backwards for eg a 10rep set i'll start by 10, 9, 8, 7... It's probably more of a mind thing with me but knowing you have 1-2left rather than having done 8-9 makes me less inclined to give up! (This was inspired by Kevin Levrone's MMM Vid)

[DarkLord]

Well, I don't think this will answer your statement as such but I still prefer to get the best out of my workouts now by pre-exhausting the major muscles and then blasting them with compound movements. I train differently nowadays which has led to better strength.

[bodyshop20]

for chest i think your over working the pec.
16 set x 8-10 is like a ripping up program, Is that yr goal ?
To bulk you should never hit above 3x8, so yr chest workout will be
3x8 flat bench
3x8 decline fly
3x8 incline press
Now that is a ball park example of hitting all angles of the pec.
So work out yr move using this plan and inform us how you get on.
Over training is the most common bulk stopping thing

[Vas85]

Originally Posted by bodyshop20

for chest i think your over working the pec.
16 set x 8-10 is like a ripping up program, Is that yr goal ?
To bulk you should never hit above 3x8, so yr chest workout will be
3x8 flat bench
3x8 decline fly
3x8 incline press
Now that is a ball park example of hitting all angles of the pec.
So work out yr move using this plan and inform us how you get on.
Over training is the most common bulk stopping thing

I don't actually train Chest that way... I was just giving an example of what somebody might normally do...? I actually do 6-8 total sets of 4-6reps and then 3sets after that just for pump... as far as chest goes.

Sorry if it was slightly misleading... I was referring to general bb community and how someone would train.