Simple and to the point.
I like it!
However, I'm curious, Wes: from what I gather -- and please correct me if I'm wrong -- but you like to do five sets of 10-12 per exercise with very little rest, using a mostly constant weight that sees you hitting failure/close thereto on the fourth or fifth set, yes?
That's reminiscent of how Danny Padilla trained, if with somewhat lesser volume (understable; you're in your sixties and have been clean for years...Padilla was half your age or less and "on" in his heydey).
How often do you train each bodypart like this? I'm guessing 2x weekly, also a'la Danny.
I wish I'd gravitated toward such training before my surgeries. I did well with a modified Heavy Duty scheme, DC training and ilk, but fuck me, constantly chasing rep PRs on just a couple or few working sets per bodypart was mentally taxing. It took me 20 years to figure out that Art Jones, my former idol, was full of bovine feces when he said hard training "shouldn't be fun."
Maybe he was half-right, as in the moment you're doing them, maybe a 20-rep breathing squat ass to ankles ain't "fun"...but it is certainly loads of geedamned fun when it's over, you're buzzing on adrenaline, and look back and say, "Holy shit! I just got three plates for twenty?"
Thanks bud....I`ve trained all kinds of different ways over the years like most of us here have, until I found what worked best for me..........occasionally I`ll change things up drasticlly to get out of a rut and attempt to make new gains.
Personally, I train every bodypart only once weekly,{Padilla was wrong}
and have been for years and years now.......I only tried twice or even three times weekly back when I was just starting out.....found out I didn`t recover well....{I over-trained bigtime due to trusting muscle magazines and the bullshit routines they pushed on us}
I personally try to just blast the shit out of a bodypart and that`s enough, and also I do intensity techniques on movements I find them best suited for....such as drop - sets, triple drop-sets, half reps at the end of a set when no further full reps can be completed,tri-sets, super-sets, giant-sets, pre-exhaust, and more at various times........whatever I feel like doing at that particular time.
These days my volume is cut way back....because like I said, I always overdid it and for no need.
Now I stop once I feel the bodypart in question has been taxed enough.
I do generally use a constant weight most of the time and train with very little rest between sets, but at times I`ll pyramid up in weight to a point, then drop back down on the last set for a "widowmaker" or final burnout pump type of thing, but rest periods are always kept short.....I can do in forty five minutes or less what most of the clowns would take two hours or more to complete due to excess talking/socializing, cell phones, and other fuckery.....as I always did and always will do, once I start training, all else is dropped after my obligatory hellos to people I know.....I train even faster at home cuz no clowns are using the stuff I need to use.
I no longer do anything below eight reps unless seven is all I could squeeze out....but then I might resort to that good old drop-set to extend that set further.
I`m definitely an instinctive trainer bigtime.
The workouts I`ve been posting lately are a prelude for things to come as I took off a ton of time and got completely out of shape.
Now that I`m doing good again, I`ll soon change things up a bit....nothing crazy, but I will still do the lowered volume and still am not on my TRT, so I should improve even more than I have once I decide I`m in good enough condition to pull the trigger and start my TRT.
Right now I train at home and use no machines and when I thought I needed them I came to the conclusion that a lot of the machines I used religously for eons truly sucked for me as I didn`t get a helluva` lot out of them....crossovers, and pressdowns just to name two that were basically useless for me.....why use them when I could do heavy skullcrushers and heavy flyes and get far better results......who in any gym dosen`t do pressdowns and crossovers........most people should stop and ask themselves why they do them....is it just because everyone else on the planet does them ,or are they truly making progress....my guess would be the former.
I do miss doing leg presses and hack squats though, but I`m not gonna` prance around on a stage anytime soon in a pair of silk panties so I just train to look good for me and to improve my health.....my legs were always terrible no matter how hard I tried to trash them anyway.
Some machines I do miss a lot but at my age I see no need to pay seven hundred bucks yearly again for slackers to get in my way when I can crank it out at home.
Sorry, I went off on a tangent...........Jesus Christ. LOL
