Upper Body Building

[Ruffian]

If you want to have an armonious physique , you have to take care of the legs too ...

My advice for legs is :

1ce a week

15 min cardio to warm up

5-6 sets of squats ( can pyramid or stay the same...don't matter )

strech

massage once a week ( legs )

How many reps are you doing per set?

[dustin]

you are probably too stiff in the hips and are letting your knee drift forward.  you need to sit back into the squat

Wow, what a beast. I bet everyone at yoga class is intimidated when that guy shows up!!

[Ursus]

Do 1 set of 20rep squats a week then. WIll build muscle without going overboard.

My legs are poop but i have added 5lbs to my weight in teh past 4 weeks since i am back squatting

[Cromespyder]

your upperbody isnt going to get bigger cause you quit training legs   probably the opposite as squats stimulate hormones in your body and overall growth.

you're just a lazy fuck and have no right to call yourself a bodybuilder.

[Cleanest Natural]

How many reps are you doing per set?

15@least

[Ursus]

15@least

sev i admit your legs are good but you took copious amounts of drugs so squatting to shit was gonna make your legs grow

[Cleanest Natural]

sev i admit your legs are good but you took copious amounts of drugs so squatting to shit was gonna make your legs grow

[Ursus]

obviously im exaggerating but you get my drift

[TommyBoy]

your upperbody isnt going to get bigger cause you quit training legs   probably the opposite as squats stimulate hormones in your body and overall growth.

you're just a lazy fuck and have no right to call yourself a bodybuilder.

I have to chime in from experience on the truth of this statement. A few years back I had to take a year off from working out my legs due to a knee injury. Worst year lifting I have ever had. Zero gains, lost my vascularity completely, and trying to maintain my normal levels of being lean was extremely hard. I was doing personal bests for all my upper-body lifts but you couldn't tell by looking. My first month doing legs again I get pulled in to take a piss-test for AAS while I was in the USAF. An expensive but very nice compliment for a lifetime natty. It had nothing to due with size but how much more lean and vascular I was. Just because I started squats again. At the two month mark after training legs I put on a solid 10 pounds. Yea, some of it was water in my thighs due to inflammation most likely, but it was very much a visual difference in lean mass overall.

Get in the rack and squat. Quit making excuses.

edit: that one legged squat makes my knees hurt looking at it.

[Cromespyder]

I have to chime in from experience on the truth of this statement. A few years back I had to take a year off from working out my legs due to a knee injury. Worst year lifting I have ever had. Zero gains, lost my vascularity completely, and trying to maintain my normal levels of being lean was extremely hard. I was doing personal bests for all my upper-body lifts but you couldn't tell by looking. My first month doing legs again I get pulled in to take a piss-test for AAS while I was in the USAF. An expensive but very nice compliment for a lifetime natty. It had nothing to due with size but how much more lean and vascular I was. Just because I started squats again. At the two month mark after training legs I put on a solid 10 pounds. Yea, some of it was water in my thighs due to inflammation most likely, but it was very much a visual difference in lean mass overall.

Get in the rack and squat. Quit making excuses.

edit: that one legged squat makes my knees hurt looking at it.

did you stop doing deadlifts also, and did you start deadlifting again when you started squatting?

[Cleanest Natural]

obviously im exaggerating but you get my drift

no i don't i think you hae no cluewhach you'retalking about

[TommyBoy]

did you stop doing deadlifts also, and did you start deadlifting again when you started squatting?

Ahh, good question. To be quite honest I wasn't doing deadlifts at this point of my lifting career. I still had a fear of them due to all the retards I saw debilitate themselves in high school. But to answer fully, I didn't start doing deads until a full year after I started squats again. Woooohhh boy.....doing squats AND deads will get your natural juice going. There are times I WANT to make an excuse not to do them...but they work soooo damned well I can't leave them out. I'm a big proponent of doing what works best no matter how hard it is. Deads and squats are as hard and intense as it gets.

Also, when I started doing deads my back started blowing up as if I had started training it for the first time. This coming from someone who has done intense barbell rows since he stepped foot in the gym.

[Ursus]

no i don't i think you hae no cluewhach you'retalking about

steroids make you phenomenally bigger and stronger.

Guy in my gym trained years. Took one injection a week for 8 weeks. He said by week 2 he could do his 10RM on a machine for 20reps

[Cromespyder]

Ahh, good question. To be quite honest I wasn't doing deadlifts at this point of my lifting career. I still had a fear of them due to all the retards I saw debilitate themselves in high school. But to answer fully, I didn't start doing deads until a full year after I started squats again. Woooohhh boy.....doing squats AND deads will get your natural juice going. There are times I WANT to make an excuse not to do them...but they work soooo damned well I can't leave them out. I'm a big proponent of doing what works best no matter how hard it is. Deads and squats are as hard and intense as it gets.

Also, when I started doing deads my back started blowing up as if I had started training it for the first time. This coming from someone who has done intense barbell rows since he stepped foot in the gym.

i took a break from squats and deads for 4 months or so before cause of sciatic nerve problem, and one thing i really notices is, when you do squats and deads(as hardcore as you can), ALL other movements/workouts are easy as shit. . .training chest it easy as pie for me, very enjoyable to train.  whereas when i didnt do squats or deads it seemed harder. . .but nothing beats the feeling you get after going all out on squats and deads.

[Rudee]

If you want to have an armonious physique , you have to take care of the legs too ...

My advice for legs is :

1ce a week

15 min cardio to warm up

5-6 sets of squats ( can pyramid or stay the same...don't matter )

strech


massage once a week ( legs )

WTF is a "armonious physique"??   

I found that JJ Marsh (bodybuilder from the early 90's who had enormous thighs) was bang on when he claimed that squatting 3 times a week will make thighs grow like weeds.   I was crazy enough to try it, and sure enough, my thighs grew and grew.  It's not easy, but I'm convinced that 3x/week squatting is sure fire way to shock thighs into serious growth, providing you take in plenty of healthy calories.   

[Ursus]

i took a break from squats and deads for 4 months or so before cause of sciatic nerve problem, and one thing i really notices is, when you do squats and deads(as hardcore as you can), ALL other movements/workouts are easy as shit. . .training chest it easy as pie for me, very enjoyable to train.  whereas when i didnt do squats or deads it seemed harder. . .but nothing beats the feeling you get after going all out on squats and deads.

Through injury i was forced to do this.

Now i am back i am adding serious weights. feeling strong and getting bigger

[Cromespyder]

Through injury i was forced to do this.

Now i am back i am adding serious weights. feeling strong and getting bigger

im a month into training after almost 2 year layoff, out on 20-25lbs this month already, getting stronger fast too

[TommyBoy]

Yup, just proof the basics hard and heavy work better than everything else.

[Stavios]

WTF is a "armonious physique"??   

I found that JJ Marsh (bodybuilder from the early 90's who had enormous thighs) was bang on when he claimed that squatting 3 times a week will make thighs grow like weeds.   I was crazy enough to try it, and sure enough, my thighs grew and grew.  It's not easy, but I'm convinced that 3x/week squatting is sure fire way to shock thighs into serious growth, providing you take in plenty of healthy calories.   

how many sets

[Rudee]

how many sets

This was back in the late 90's when I experimented with this, but if I recall correctly, I was squatting for about 8 sets of 10-12 reps only.   Several years later I wanted to see if I could get similar results using the incline leg press machine, but the results did not compare.   To this day whenever I want to shock my thighs into new growth I switch to 3x/week squats and the legs grow again.

[JOHN MATRIX]

your upperbody isnt going to get bigger cause you quit training legs   probably the opposite as squats stimulate hormones in your body and overall growth.

you're just a lazy fuck and have no right to call yourself a bodybuilder.

1.i am a lazy fuck
2.i dont call myself a bodybuilder
3. you can get the same 'stimulation' you speak of from deadlifts

[Cromespyder]

1.i am a lazy fuck
2.i dont call myself a bodybuilder
3. you can get the same 'stimulation' you speak of from deadlifts

your choice if you want to be a pussy, pussy.

[Canadian_Muscle]

1.i am a lazy fuck
2.i dont call myself a bodybuilder
3. you can get the same 'stimulation' you speak of from deadlifts

I think you're just a big pussy to be honest.

[Master Blaster]

i took a break from squats and deads for 4 months or so before cause of sciatic nerve problem, and one thing i really notices is, when you do squats and deads(as hardcore as you can), ALL other movements/workouts are easy as shit. . .training chest it easy as pie for me, very enjoyable to train.  whereas when i didnt do squats or deads it seemed harder. . .but nothing beats the feeling you get after going all out on squats and deads.

You got me motivated. Cool shit.

[RC Money]

i have decided im abondoning squats for good, in order to put all my focus on upper body development. doing legs takes too much out of you and limits the time you have to dedicate to the parts that actually show and slows recovery time for you other groups. and lets face it doing squats just sucks asshole. nobody sees your quads anyway unless you are naked and at that point it doesnt matter anyway. ALSO, you do not need bulging quads to look good. from now on im going for the Serge Nubret/lee haney look. you can not train quads and still look good, all that counts are shoulders, arms, lats and chest anyways unless you are a competitive bber.

right on broskie, fuck legs they take healing time away from muscles that matter lol

but maybe for a balanced physique without the pain of leg day just have leg day be a few sets of squat so you still get the possitive hormone releasing effects that may help your upper body, just enough squats to do something without getting sore ...btw this is real advice, no homo.