Just please don't come all at once...After all - I see so many interested to challenge me (and my training partners) - I will probably have to expend the gym to fit all of you
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Interestingly - there are so many "hardcore" guys here ready to criticise and laugh...but nobody really willing to prove their tuffness:
Totall count of getbig heroes: ZERO
Still - as long as ANY of you look at particular number of pounds (being lifted) - you are in the wrong sport...
We can make ANY weight work for us if we don't let the weight control us...and instead we control the weight. As simple as that.
I trained HUNDREDS of people and some very advanced bodybuilders and speaking of putting the muscle, hypertrophy, increasing the muscle mass...etc - I managed to put THE MOST in the LEAST amount on time on numerous athletes...
In most of the cases I had to let them loose their ego and start training much lighter(
)...controlling the weight and making incredible gains in very short period of time...
Consider how many variables are there in training and start manipulating with amount of sets, reps, weight...tempo and variation of speed in ANY portion of the rep - applying from super fast to super slow...to static contractions...and using various contractions (try maximal for example...
)...different grips, stances, range of motion...or WHATEVER comes to your mind.
I am only having fun with some of the kids on this board (tuff-talkers) but in actuality I am trying to send you a message that indeed IT IS NOT HOW MUCH YOU LIFT that is important...rather: HOW you lift and WHAT you feel when lifting that is much, much, MUCH more important...
Jokes aside - I do care and want to send the message regardless of the criticism I am getting (if you didn't notice - it doesn't bother me to continue "singing the same song"...Hmmm, speaking of that - I might even sing my National anthem on the next Fitshow...using brutal 10 pound dbells/ it is my heavy day after all/ as a drums...)
Certainly - once you master mind-muscle connection and honestly feel EVERY muscle you are trying to stimulate in EVERY exercise that you are doing - than (and only than) start increasing the weight in every exercise...
I am not against heavy weight...I will go as heavy as possible with each and every of my athletes (and usually put MORE weight than they want me to) - but lifting heavy for the sake of feeding your ego is JUST wrong thing to do.
Advice to those who actually want to listen: try to focus on muscle you are doing rather than weight...Pick any exercise for particular muscle and attempt to perform certain amount of reps in full range of motion.
Maintain contraction (control) throughout the whole movement - keeping targeting muscle MAXIMALLY contracted at all times (regardless of the speed you choose). When you start feeling the muscle from the first 'till the last moment of the set - you will feel good about the set - as you will be certain that proper stimulation of targeting muscle just occurred.
Than - you can start with numerous variations of range of motion (choosing to stop at any point of particular motion required to complete full rep).
Try to find portion of the rep where you feel the best stimulation and "play with it"...
What I mean by that - try to stop (pause) in the hardest part of the movement and maybe squeeze as hard as you can for certain amount of time (as you ALWAYS should...BTW - many people believe that as long as they make contraction they are doing the job - not thinking about the difference between ANY and MAXIMAL contraction).
I suggest you start with 2-3 seconds - and later you can go as long as you want (I often perform 5 and 10 second "squeezes" per rep - in numerous different positions. Sometimes "peak contraction" at the top of the movement...sometimes maximal contraction as I am pausing in the bottom position (end of eccentric part of the rep) - before attempting "concentric" contraction....
That is just ONE of countless examples and possibilities...
Be open minded and don't fit into a shame "go heavy or go home" - before realizing that heavy ONLY benefits you if you "do right or go home"...
I'll take correct LIGHT lifting over incorrect HEAVY lifting anytime...Certainly once you are able to go HEAVY correctly - you'll improve even more...
In the mean time I am making a list of the challengers...
So far ZERO...but counting.....
Did I say I love you guys?
Valentine was yesterday - but oh well...better late than never...