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Title: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 06:25:31 AM
Instead of going for sets of 10 with the same weight, add weight on each set and crank out less reps. Work down to a set of 4 or 5 reps with maximimum weight. Eat lots of protein. Pyramid your flat bench press and you'll have pecs like roast beeves.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: wes on July 04, 2011, 06:27:31 AM
THANKS LEX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: DroppingPlates on July 04, 2011, 06:28:36 AM
Thank you mr Weider  ::)
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: JP_RC on July 04, 2011, 06:29:49 AM
Wow, what a remarkable breakthrough in training, pyramiding!  ::) :-X

Plus, lots of protein=fat gain for a nat.

Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: WillGrant on July 04, 2011, 06:39:25 AM
This Joe Loco gimmick is so enthralling  ::)
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Dr Dutch on July 04, 2011, 06:44:39 AM
Instead of going for sets of 10 with the same weight, add weight on each set and crank out less reps. Work down to a set of 4 or 5 reps with maximimum weight. Eat lots of protein. Pyramid your flat bench press and you'll have pecs like roast beeves.
Amazing. You should do your own workout video. Pecs like roast Reeves!
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: DroppingPlates on July 04, 2011, 07:03:30 AM
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: D_1000 on July 04, 2011, 07:14:33 AM
Please expand on why I shouldn't go directly to my normal bench press weight of 600 pounds.

This thing you call "pyramiding", while a novel concept, sounds like a lot of wasted effort to me.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Dipadidu on July 04, 2011, 07:28:06 AM
wow, pyramiding!!! What's next? Use weights, do sets, split?
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 07:56:30 AM
You should NEVER do a split routine. Stick with three whole body workouts per week, never exceeding 8 exercises. Better yet to keep it to the "golden six".
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: DroppingPlates on July 04, 2011, 07:59:14 AM
Is there a Nobel Price for groundbreaking training advice?
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Megalodon on July 04, 2011, 08:12:29 AM
THANKS LEX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ditto
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: JasonH on July 04, 2011, 08:16:52 AM
To be fair, the pyramiding theory does work - I use it for many of my exercises but at the end of the set once I've used the heaviest weight I can handle, I drop the weight in half immediately and continue to crank out the reps super-strict until failure - got some good results training this way.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: chris-a on July 04, 2011, 08:44:12 AM
tit of the week: 'bodybuilder lex reeves'
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: wes on July 04, 2011, 08:46:12 AM
To be fair, the pyramiding theory does work - I use it for many of my exercises but at the end of the set once I've used the heaviest weight I can handle, I drop the weight in half immediately and continue to crank out the reps super-strict until failure - got some good results training this way.
I do the same thing.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Stavios on July 04, 2011, 09:09:15 AM
I do the same thing.

I don't even train I just shoot 2 cc of roids every day
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 09:19:22 AM
This Joe Loco gimmick is so enthralling  ::)

I'd shoot myself if I had a gimmick like that.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 10:20:36 AM
A lot of experts here that "know" this stuff. But you have to "do" it,too. Probably look like 90% of todays gyms:baseball cap, sleeveless shirt, non-defined shoulders and arms, pot belly, legs like toothpicks, spend all the time in the gym talking to their clones, then come home get on the computer and type that they "know" all this stuff.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 10:23:17 AM
A lot of experts here that "know" this stuff. But you have to "do" it,too. Probably look like 90% of todays gyms:baseball cap, sleeveless shirt, non-defined shoulders and arms, pot belly, legs like toothpicks, spend all the time in the gym talking to their clones, then come home get on the computer and type that they "know" all this stuff.

Thanks......you must have pulled your "tips" from 1960's issues of Muscle Builder or Ironman Magazines.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: wes on July 04, 2011, 10:23:33 AM
A lot of experts here that "know" this stuff. But you have to "do" it,too. Probably look like 90% of todays gyms:baseball cap, sleeveless shirt, non-defined shoulders and arms, pot belly, legs like toothpicks, spend all the time in the gym talking to their clones, then come home get on the computer and type that they "know" all this stuff.
Spot on assessment Lex !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: DroppingPlates on July 04, 2011, 10:26:46 AM
A lot of experts here that "know" this stuff. But you have to "do" it,too. Probably look like 90% of todays gyms:baseball cap, sleeveless shirt, non-defined shoulders and arms, pot belly, legs like toothpicks, spend all the time in the gym talking to their clones, then come home get on the computer and type that they "know" all this stuff.

Guess who's talking, it's "bodydriller flex sleeves"  ::)

Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 10:31:07 AM
Coach: the men from the fifties and sixties have better bodies than today. Mankind has not evolved in the last fifty years, so the techniques still work. Just because you flunked out od steroid based bodybuilding doesn't mean some of these guys shouldn't learn how to do it naturally and look like men. Do you really think Ronnie Coleman looks like a man?
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Yev33 on July 04, 2011, 11:07:25 AM
Lex have you ever heard of Marvin Eder?
And are you aware that he was one of the first ones to use a split routine?
Your thoughts on this......
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Yev33 on July 04, 2011, 11:07:25 AM
Lex have you ever heard of Marvin Eder?
And are you aware that he was one of the first ones to use a split routine?
Your thoughts on this......
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 11:13:50 AM
Marvin started Olympic lifting three days per week. Then bodybuilding three days per week. Then got caught up in a two on/one off routine, which I believe hampered his growth. The man also was benching over 500 lbs so I classify him as an exception. The average poor slob today has enough triuble getting up to 200 because they "hit chest" once a week.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: DroppingPlates on July 04, 2011, 11:16:26 AM
Lex have you ever heard of Marvin Eder?
And are you aware that he was one of the first ones to use a split routine?
Your thoughts on this......


Good idea to post it twice, as an old man lumber jack sleeves is a bit def
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Yev33 on July 04, 2011, 11:26:23 AM
Good idea to post it twice, as an old man lumber jack sleeves is a bit def

I wish I was clever enough to have done that on purpose ;D
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: dyslexic on July 04, 2011, 11:34:08 AM
Instead of going for sets of 10 with the same weight, add weight on each set and crank out less reps. Work down to a set of 4 or 5 reps with maximimum weight. Eat lots of protein. Pyramid your flat bench press and you'll have pecs like roast beeves.


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Gracias Lexus.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Tapeworm on July 04, 2011, 11:39:31 AM
Guess who's talking, it's "bodydriller flex sleeves"  ::)



You make the fun, but someday Rex Leeves.  And then where you be?
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Jaerson on July 04, 2011, 11:41:15 AM
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Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 12:15:09 PM
Coach: the men from the fifties and sixties have better bodies than today. Mankind has not evolved in the last fifty years, so the techniques still work. Just because you flunked out od steroid based bodybuilding doesn't mean some of these guys shouldn't learn how to do it naturally and look like men. Do you really think Ronnie Coleman looks like a man?

Training hasn't evolved much either, they just train less and take more gear.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 01:46:51 PM
YOU train less and take more illegal drugs. Now you train nitwits who bash each others brains in with nada in their bank accounts. Get lost Coach, my threads are for winners.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: DroppingPlates on July 04, 2011, 01:54:52 PM
You make the fun, but someday Rex Leeves.  And then where you be?

"But someday".... I met him in person?
So what? Just like -almost- anybody else here I like to joke around, esp about self-proclaimed experts/gurus/masters/whatfuckingeverwannabees.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 01:57:21 PM
Any time you want to step in the gym and with me just let me know. Or do you just want to keep hiding behind that gimmick?
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Yev33 on July 04, 2011, 02:04:48 PM
Marvin started Olympic lifting three days per week. Then bodybuilding three days per week. Then got caught up in a two on/one off routine, which I believe hampered his growth. The man also was benching over 500 lbs so I classify him as an exception. The average poor slob today has enough triuble getting up to 200 because they "hit chest" once a week.

Marvin himself has said that the split routine allowed him to hit that 500lb bench mark and 600lb squats for reps, and considering that he was the pound for pound strongest bodybuilder of his era at only 200lbs I would say he knew what he was doing and talking about.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 03:38:59 PM
Marvin is free to have his opinion, but he worked out for the bulk of his tenure three days a week then split routines for a short time before he started the plumbing business. Also note that he stopped working out altogether. Split routines have that effect. Stick to three days/golden six.
Coach: You are a child.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 03:43:13 PM
What? Lol, I didn't challenge you to a fight, just to train. You don't I train hard and I'm all drugs. I say train with me and find out.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Bodybuilder Lex Reeves on July 04, 2011, 03:57:43 PM
In a fight I'd drop you quickly. I'm a black belt in American Kenpo. I'm older now but could probably run circles around you in bench, squat, deadlift. I suggest you go read The Good Book and smarten up. 
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 04:32:13 PM
Who said anything about a fight? LOL. I wouldn't want you break your hip throwing an ankle kick...hahaha.
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: WillGrant on July 04, 2011, 06:19:26 PM
I'd shoot myself if I had a gimmick like that.
;D
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Coach is Back! on July 04, 2011, 06:44:29 PM
Dude, I'm seriously good with being a child. The second you act like an adult, I'm throughly convinced you cut your lifespan down. If I acted like an adult I couldn't train the way I do nor could I keep up with the high school or college kids I train on a field. I'd be......like you!
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: chris-a on July 05, 2011, 01:45:54 AM
In a fight I'd drop you quickly. I'm a black belt in American Kenpo. I'm older now but could probably run circles around you in bench, squat, deadlift. I suggest you go read The Good Book and smarten up. 

this quote has all the makings of a getbig classic - lil bit of everything in that one...
Title: Re: Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding
Post by: Tito24 on July 05, 2011, 02:03:22 AM
good tip, growth can begin