Tip Of The Week: Pyramiding

[Bodybuilder Lex Reeves]

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.

[wes]

THANKS LEX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DroppingPlates]

Thank you mr Weider 

[JP_RC]

Wow, what a remarkable breakthrough in training, pyramiding!  

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

[WillGrant]

This Joe Loco gimmick is so enthralling 

[Dr Dutch]

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!

[DroppingPlates]

[D_1000]

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.

[Dipadidu]

wow, pyramiding!!! What's next? Use weights, do sets, split?

[Bodybuilder Lex Reeves]

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".

[DroppingPlates]

Is there a Nobel Price for groundbreaking training advice?

[Megalodon]

THANKS LEX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ditto

[JasonH]

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.

[chris-a]

tit of the week: 'bodybuilder lex reeves'

[wes]

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.

[Stavios]

I do the same thing.

I don't even train I just shoot 2 cc of roids every day

[Coach is Back!]

This Joe Loco gimmick is so enthralling 

I'd shoot myself if I had a gimmick like that.

[Bodybuilder Lex Reeves]

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.

[Coach is Back!]

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.

[wes]

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DroppingPlates]

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" 

[Bodybuilder Lex Reeves]

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?

[Yev33]

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......

[Yev33]

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......

[Bodybuilder Lex Reeves]

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.