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Title: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: Bam-bam on October 20, 2011, 08:53:39 AM
Hey Vince, so you know Arnold personally and he even stayed in your house for some weeks back in the day. So are all those very high volume training he was doing just magazine bs or was he really doing it?
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: theheman on October 21, 2011, 04:54:13 PM
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Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: Thespritz0 on October 21, 2011, 09:15:22 PM
I hope Basille answers this, I always suspected he was doing less and talking a lot more...
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: unrageable on October 21, 2011, 09:18:43 PM
Vince doesn't know shit.
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: DK II on October 21, 2011, 09:27:33 PM
this will be interesting....
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: WillGrant on October 21, 2011, 11:48:56 PM
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Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: Vince B on October 22, 2011, 06:37:31 AM
Arnold has been to my gym twice and my home once. Ray Mentzer was the bodybuilder who stayed at my place for many months.

I saw Arnold train a few times in Golds Gym in 1968 and again when he was in Sydney. He did a lot of volume. Guys like Arnold are the ones who bodybuilders still follow to this day. They do several exercises for each body part and do several sets of each exercise. Probably something like 10 to 20 sets per muscle.
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: Bam-bam on October 22, 2011, 06:50:20 AM
Arnold has been to my gym twice and my home once. Ray Mentzer was the bodybuilder who stayed at my place for many months.

I saw Arnold train a few times in Golds Gym in 1968 and again when he was in Sydney. He did a lot of volume. Guys like Arnold are the ones who bodybuilders still follow to this day. They do several exercises for each body part and do several sets of each exercise. Probably something like 10 to 20 sets per muscle.

thank you. what about the weekly frequencies? those guys were training each body part how often? I ask this because Im training more than 1x a week now and Im feeling great, thought I would go into catabilic zone but its happening quite the opposite, maybe its because my body was not used to it but its surely working. So perhaps all that volume bs was not bs after all.
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: Dr Dutch on October 22, 2011, 08:09:18 AM
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Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: wes on October 22, 2011, 08:14:08 AM
thank you. what about the weekly frequencies? those guys were training each body part how often? I ask this because Im training more than 1x a week now and Im feeling great, thought I would go into catabilic zone but its happening quite the opposite, maybe its because my body was not used to it but its surely working. So perhaps all that volume bs was not bs after all.
Same here,2 X a week since April and I`m stonger than hell and looking great.

I think Arnold trained everything 2 x a week,though others will say 3 X.

It was 6 days a week,bodyparts twice weekly,and 20 sets for big bodyparts and 10-12 as Vince said earlier.
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: dj181 on October 22, 2011, 08:32:38 AM
Pretty sure that it was 2 times a week as follows: Days 1 and 4: chest and back Days 2 and 5: delts and arms Days 3 and 6: legs Day 7: off In fact this twice a week training frequency was the common training protocol up until the  early 90s
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: StanZoLOL on October 22, 2011, 09:03:25 AM
Some info on how he trained, poundgaes, etc. would be good.
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: Bam-bam on October 22, 2011, 09:10:30 AM
Same here,2 X a week since April and I`m stonger than hell and looking great.

I think Arnold trained everything 2 x a week,though others will say 3 X.

It was 6 days a week,bodyparts twice weekly,and 20 sets for big bodyparts and 10-12 as Vince said earlier.

yes, and if you watch blood and guts even dorian is more of a volume guy, doing 3-4 exercises per bodypart every each 5 days and stuff
Title: Re: Question to Basile, regarding Arnold and volume training
Post by: jwb on October 22, 2011, 09:31:14 AM
There was a fly on the wall description of Arnold training chest in the first pumping iron book and it was pretty much this.

1. Flat bench press 7 sets pyramiding up in weight for 6 and one pump set

2. Incline press 5 sets pyramiding up in weight for 4 and one pump set.

3. Flat flys 3 sets same weight.

Off season workout 6 months before Olympia.