I use to subscribe to men's health many years ago when it was a decent magazine and I saved many of them. I recently dragged a few out to read. One was about how Randy Couture the great UFC star was training NFL players in the fight game to get them in condition to play in the off season.
He had this to say about lifting. I'm going to paraphrase. He said, we have to get away from the body part isolation model of training. We have to train the whole body in one training session. Using a split is not what an athlete should be using.
When I read this I thought of your training philosophy Ironat.
I think for natties it's probably the best.
The real old time bodybuilders (pre 1950) trained that way for the most part although they often did marathon workouts of several hours.
If you're on drugs then it's another ballgame.
When you think about it, whether we train 3,4,5 or 6 days a week we kind of end up in the same place.
Couture is a great wrestler and fighter. He's tough.
Specificity of training is where it's at. The training is tailored to the sport.
You have to decide what your purpose is and train for it. I'm training to basically hold myself together for as long as possible.
Even so, I'm going downhill.
