Haven’t posted in awhile, so thought I’d ask a question. I’d posted this on Berardi’s PN forum, but thus far haven’t received any input. Hoping maybe someone here can help.
I just got Poliquin's "Winning The Arms Race" book for my 40th B-day last Thursday. Yesterday. My question is regarding what would be recommended for chest, back, legs, and shldrs.
I am guessing that someone out there has done the program, so would be interested in what they did for the rest of the body. In an old "Ask the Guru" (Poliquin's Q & A from his website, before it became a member site), he mentioned using the same set/rep schemes for the other bodyparts on his 5-day split. Did anyone out there try that? If so how'd you go about setting it up exercise-wise? Did you get good results with the program beyond just the arms portion? Did anyone do something different? Just looking for some suggestions.
Thank you,
R
Generally you'd get a response to a post in this forum so I'm guessing that like me people aren't familar with the program.
Is it simply a arm specialisation plan without plans for the rest of the body. If so then I guess you could pick whatever other plan you liked and do the arm stuff as written.
Thanks for the response. The book/program is a few yrs old, so thought maybe more ppl would have done it. The book only details the arm workouts to be done every 5 days. The other 2 days (chest/back and legs) aren't given. I was just curious if anyone had tried it, how they set up their other bodypart workouts, etc. I've been doing them with the same set/rep protocols as those given for the arms.
The arms workouts go in 30 day increments (once every 5 days/6 times a month) with alternation between accumulation and intensification phases.
I think the reason why this is not getting many replies is that alot of us on here have the opinion that things like arm specialization are probably just not needed.
Mind you, if your mail goal is big arms, im sure this program works.
I think the reason why this is not getting many replies is that alot of us on here have the opinion that things like arm specialization are probably just not needed.
Agreed. And some of us have the opinion that Charles Poliquin is not the best source of information either.
I am not familiar with the book or that particular routine.
Back in my 'bodybuilder' days I read Poliquin's Principles, which at the time I thought was gospel--along with Duchaine's BodyOpus--but I have never read "Arms Race". It is a fairly old text and from what I gather is premised on split routines and such.
Hey, there are only like 2 keys between l and n. when you have fat fingers like me, its surprising I can even type! hah.
But seriously, you can get pretty big arms without doing to much to them. Ive yet to met the guy rowing over 300lbs and pressing over 300lbs that has small arms. maybe he exists somewhere mind you.
Poliquin was good back in the day, before he went bat-shit crazy.
Word is that he's still "got it" in person, but the stuff he's been putting out the past few years makes it look like he's in a race with Paul Chek to see who can get in the mental hospital first.
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Poliquin was good back in the day, before he went bat-shit crazy.
Word is that he's still "got it" in person, but the stuff he's been putting out the past few years makes it look like he's in a race with Paul Chek to see who can get in the mental hospital first.
Poliquin's "Winning The Arms Race"
when you have fat fingers like me, its surprising I can even type! hah.
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