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[deadweight]

Now of days everything has advance to the point of cluster fuck..All the gruleing workouts that are listed would keep the the human body crippled and over trained every day..But yet people pick up muscle and fitness and follow these routines....Maybe they dont know any better that really LESS IS BETTER.I can rememeber first starting off training way back in the early 80s and i myself would follow all types of workouts...No wonder after training the first five years i was stuck growing and i didnt realize how over trained i really was untill i swiched over to power training..It took me some time to adjust because it was waay less involed then BB .....But after the first couple of months i started really getting bigger..Doing way less and sticking with all the basics and only useing the barbell for all my lifts...From that point i trashed all my muscle and fitness mags away and turned a new leaf for power training....Still today i only train useing stricky a barbell a squat rack and a power rack....Useing only the basics for peak growth.Now when i walk by a mag rack at the store and see all the junky routines they try to push on the clueless makes me sick....Most those mags are about profit....Getting people to buy the junk and getting some top pro BB to stand by a routine that even he doesnt do...Its a scam just like alot of health and fitness shit out there...Just about everything i read in these mags are scams and it targets to ones that are clueless because they are the ones that will buy anything that thinks they will get something out the product or whatever they are promoteing....I tell you people what before i spend 6 to 8 bucks on muscle and fitness i'll take that money and go buy me a few hambugers and a drink..I'll get more from that then some stinky fitness book....dw

[piotr]

I couldn't agree more

I remember reading a M&F mag when I was a kid that did an article about Lee Priest's arms, that his arms were the best in the biz at the time, and went on to lay out suggested rountines for beginners right to advanced...

The begginer routine they suggested was maybe 10-12 sets for biceps - what a joke!

I see guys in my gym doing 15-20 sets for a small muscle group like biceps, literally spending like a whole hour on them, and guess what - they got small biceps... I saw a skinny kid in my gym a couple weeks back doing supersets for biceps - whan I say skinny i mean the kid would have weighed like 75kg and was a bit over 6 foot tall - , I even went up to him and said "bro, what are you doing with this superset shit you're never gonna grow like that, save that for when you get huuuge" buit he didn't believe me cos he read it in a weider magazine

I see almost every guy in my gym overtraining and I guarantee you most of them are getting this shit from those bloody magazines... Too much volume, way too many forced reps, and most of them stay small

PIOTR

[QHams]

Always been a big believer in push n pull movements. Isolation does very little for me personally other than give me tendonitis.

[GymFreak]

I couldn't agree more

I remember reading a M&F mag when I was a kid that did an article about Lee Priest's arms, that his arms were the best in the biz at the time, and went on to lay out suggested rountines for beginners right to advanced...

The begginer routine they suggested was maybe 10-12 sets for biceps - what a joke!

I see guys in my gym doing 15-20 sets for a small muscle group like biceps, literally spending like a whole hour on them, and guess what - they got small biceps... I saw a skinny kid in my gym a couple weeks back doing supersets for biceps - whan I say skinny i mean the kid would have weighed like 75kg and was a bit over 6 foot tall - , I even went up to him and said "bro, what are you doing with this superset shit you're never gonna grow like that, save that for when you get huuuge" buit he didn't believe me cos he read it in a weider magazine

I see almost every guy in my gym overtraining and I guarantee you most of them are getting this shit from those bloody magazines... Too much volume, way too many forced reps, and most of them stay small

PIOTR

AMEN!

I could not agree more with you. I see in the gym what I call "Small Potatoes" guys in the gym who spend more time at the juice bar sipping fruity protein drinks while reading Flex magazine, mixing in an occasional rep or two. Scrawny chumps who take what they read in every magazine as gospel.

Well what works for Sam, does not always work for Joe! these kids do not realize this.