Thought I'd share this with everyone. At least he advocates squats and deadlifts. I don't agree with him on being 6% BF to see your abs, though. Here is the link: http://www.fhmus.com/articles-3253.a...16&idx_id=3253
Get bigger The most important exercises to increase your overall size are back and leg movements such as squats, dead lifts and bent-over barbell rows. They work your whole body. No one wants to do dead lifts or bent-over barbell rows—it’s difficult, so they skip it. But you hinder your overall growth if you skip training a major body part. Training your legs, for example, boosts your metabolism like crazy because it’s such a hard body part to train. And with a faster metabolism, you’ll get more muscle growth because faster metabolism equals more muscle repair and more growth all over.
Get a six-pack Everyone has some ab development, but you need to get your body fat down to at least 6 percent before you’ll actually notice your abs. That means adding 30 to 45 minutes of cardio exercises at least five days a week—preferably before breakfast or after a workout. When it comes to working your abs, you don’t want to get bigger by doing exercises with weights—that will just increase the size of your waist. Instead, tone your abs with free motions. Work your abs every other day with exercises like crunches or hanging leg raises.
Make your waist look smaller You can create the illusion of a slimmer waist by increasing the width of your shoulders. Extend your shoulders by working the outer head of your deltoids with side lateral raises—that’s where you sit with your arms to the side with dumbbells and then raise them up. Also, wide-grip pull-ups add a lot of width on your back and will help give you that V-tapered look.
Increase your bench Here’s a guaranteed way to get your max up: Three times a week do six sets of 10 reps with half your maximum weight. Bench-pressing is more about technique than strength. It’s about the mind to muscle connection. When you’re lifting really heavy weights, you get sloppy. Doing reps of the lower weight will get your body in tune, let you focus on form and build your secondary muscles. After two weeks with the lower weight, when you max out, you’ll break your old record.
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Train your legs and back (the one smart thing he says)
Working your abs with weight will increase your waist size (Lou has talked about this - no one is going to notice 1/4" of muscle on your waist, but they will notice 2" of fat)
Lat raises will give you bigger shoulders (not heavy presses)
If you want to teach your muscles how to move lots of weight for only a few reps, lift only a little weight for lots of reps ( )
Hell, 1 out of 4 aint bad!
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I'm not thrilled about the recommendation for fasting cardio. To support my biased view, there was a snipit in Men's Health quoting research that showed good results (for fat loss) with a low fat, high fiber breakfast.
I don't get it. Every mainstream magazine interview with a ginormous dude results in the same things:
1. Strong advocacy of isolation movements like lat raises, curls, etc.
2. Bonehead comments about ab work
3. Ridiculous guarantees about results attained with shit methods (such as the 6x10 scheme mentioned here).
Why is it *always* the same, bad information? Is this the way (insert bodybuilder's name here) actually trains? Or has (insert bodybuilder's name here) intentionally kept his best "secrets" for himself? Or have the editors for these publications conspired to constantly give the same misinformation?
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I don't get it. Every mainstream magazine interview with a ginormous dude results in the same things:
1. Strong advocacy of isolation movements like lat raises, curls, etc.
2. Bonehead comments about ab work
3. Ridiculous guarantees about results attained with shit methods (such as the 6x10 scheme mentioned here).
Why is it *always* the same, bad information? Is this the way (insert bodybuilder's name here) actually trains? Or has (insert bodybuilder's name here) intentionally kept his best "secrets" for himself? Or have the editors for these publications conspired to constantly give the same misinformation?
Because that is what the general, misinformed public wants to hear. All they want are big biceps and ript abz, and they don't know enough to know better.
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keep in mind to a lot of it also boils down to just needing something to print to sell the magazine. So you change a few exercises (you cant print "just squat" every week) and pump it out. Because hell, it doesnt actually matter you just need to fill the 45% of the magazine that isnt an advertisement.
keep in mind to a lot of it also boils down to just needing something to print to sell the magazine. So you change a few exercises (you cant print "just squat" every week) and pump it out. Because hell, it doesnt actually matter you just need to fill the 45% of the magazine that isnt an advertisement.
Good point. I've come to this conclusion before, but I forgot . The brain is a little overloaded at the moment
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Get bigger The most important exercises to increase your overall size are back and leg movements such as squats, dead lifts and bent-over barbell rows. They work your whole body. No one wants to do dead lifts or bent-over barbell rows—it’s difficult, so they skip it. But you hinder your overall growth if you skip training a major body part. Training your legs, for example, boosts your metabolism like crazy because it’s such a hard body part to train. And with a faster metabolism, you’ll get more muscle growth because faster metabolism equals more muscle repair and more growth all over.
Training legs doesnt boost metabolism because its hard, its because its usually done with compound movements. But whatever.
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Get a six-pack Everyone has some ab development, but you need to get your body fat down to at least 6 percent before you’ll actually notice your abs. That means adding 30 to 45 minutes of cardio exercises at least five days a week—preferably before breakfast or after a workout. When it comes to working your abs, you don’t want to get bigger by doing exercises with weights—that will just increase the size of your waist. Instead, tone your abs with free motions. Work your abs every other day with exercises like crunches or hanging leg raises.
I think that with distended abs and such that some BBers have, this may be a vaild point. I dont think any natural person will have abs so thick that it takes away from the rest of the body.
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Make your waist look smaller You can create the illusion of a slimmer waist by increasing the width of your shoulders. Extend your shoulders by working the outer head of your deltoids with side lateral raises—that’s where you sit with your arms to the side with dumbbells and then raise them up. Also, wide-grip pull-ups add a lot of width on your back and will help give you that V-tapered look.
I doubt most people would know which head was the lateral head, hell people who think they know what theyre saying use medial delt. Dont get the knock on the outer head comment.
Lat raises are decent if you can do them, he didnt say to not do OH pressing. I do not agree with the wide grip lat suggestion. I hear it helps stretch the fascia and allow room for more growth but Jay also goes to a massage therapist for this so I doubt this will help the average person. Ive had rock climbing clients blow their shoulders doing wide grip shit like that.
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Increase your bench Here’s a guaranteed way to get your max up: Three times a week do six sets of 10 reps with half your maximum weight. Bench-pressing is more about technique than strength. It’s about the mind to muscle connection. When you’re lifting really heavy weights, you get sloppy. Doing reps of the lower weight will get your body in tune, let you focus on form and build your secondary muscles. After two weeks with the lower weight, when you max out, you’ll break your old record.
I think this would work if you corrected someones form. I see lots of guys scramble on max attempts or allow compensation with other areas to move weight. I think a form check and finding the optimal groove would be beneficial. After that, then another plan could work.
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6X10 works!I used to do them alot for some back hypertrophy and they sure do work,i didnt use the same routine as jay described infact i went to failure on the last set,i was always in pain the next day.
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