Christian, my friend had gotten your book recently and has adopted your training style, he is a bodybuilder, he competes in about 5 weeks. Do you believe in the traditional old school approach to training also? Or do you rely on supersets and use of stability balls for building mass only?
Thanks in advance!
I do not have one training philosophy. I love training and try to integrate everything that has been shown to work. Every program works, but none work forever. See, right now I'm training much like strongmen from the early 1900s. I am also a former olympic lifter so I do integrate the olympic lifts in my own training.
If I have one philosophy it could be called ''mirror training''... train a certain way for 4-6 weeks then DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE for 4-6 weeks.
For example right now I am:
- Training each muscle very frequentely
- Using a very low volume per muscle group
- Using only basic compound movements
- Training with 5 or less reps
So in my next training phase I'll be:
- Training each muscle once a week
- Using a high volume for each muscle
- Using an equal mix of compound and isolation movements
- Training with higher reps and integrating techniques such as supersets, drop sets, etc.
