Tampabay's bulking journal

[musclesntx]

IMO, you're trying to hit a muscle in every single way every single workout. I think (and I may be off here) you'd benefit from cutting the lifts down a bit and then focusing on going as intense as possible on fewer lifts...

I appreciate your motivation to tear it up and hit it hard, but I think you'd see better size gains if you channelled it more.

[tampabay3990]

could you elaborate a little bit? i'd definately like to hear what your sayin...im just retarded and im not really sure if you mean to chill out a lil or cut out some exercises.

[musclesntx]

Originally Posted by tampabay3990

could you elaborate a little bit? i'd definately like to hear what your sayin...im just retarded and im not really sure if you mean to chill out a lil or cut out some exercises.

Here's what I'd normally do when I see someone else's routine - I'd tell them to write each exercise down they do in a workout. Then I'd tell them to close their eyes and randomly touch half of the exercises and then throw those f*ckers out.

I believe in hitting those little muscles via the heavy compounds. Instead of doing 3 reps on 10 different exercises, I believe you're better off channeling your intensity on 2-3 exercises and really tearing them down. That will give you a better indicator of what you're lagging at, and will also incorporate the muscle groups you want to incorporate to induce hypertrophy.

For example, let's say someone shows me they do 3-4 sets of:
Lunges
leg ext
leg curls
squats
sldl
db squats

and all kinds of other sh!t.

I'd abbreviate that in like one second and have them squatting their asses off and then doing some SLDL or whatever.

I think too many people think they need to do every exercise every workout. I say do as few different as possible and THAT is where you'll be able to really hammer down. Also, you'll feel what is wearing out or what isn't pulling its weight - you fix that and you'll get stronger and if you get stronger, you'll get bigger.

[tampabay3990]

todays workout was great...really pumped my arms up good

6/29/07-FRIDAY-ARMS

Tri's

CGBP
135x10
145x10
155x10
165x9

Skulls
75x10
75x10
80x8

Dips +45lbs
10
8
7

Lat Pulldown Pushdowns
70x10
80x8
80x7

Dropset of pushdowns

BICEPS

BB Curls
80x10
85x9
90x7
90x6

Seated Alt DB Curls
35x10
40x9
45x6

Preachers
75x10
75x7
75x6

Concentration Curls
30x11
30x10
35x8

then i did some forearm work so my arms were really pumped. awesome workout.

[tampabay3990]

gotcha bro. that sounds pretty good to me. so i might cut out some of my exercises and just throw a set or two on the end of each one of my good exercises like squats, deads, bench, etc..

[tampabay3990]

Saturday-6/30/07 Shoulders, Traps, Abs, Calves

Arnolds
45x10
50x8
55x7
55x6

DB Lat Raises
25x10
25x10
30x8

One Arm Cable Lat Raises (behind back)
20x12
20x12
20x10

Rear Delt Machine
90x12
100x10
100x10

Bent Over Lat Raises
15x12
15x12
15x12

Smith Machine Shrugs (Behin back)
225x10
255x8
265x8
295x6

DB Shrugs
85x10
90x8
95x8
100x6

Standing Calf Raises
205x12
205x12
205x12
205x11

Seated Toe Raiser
80x20
80x18
80x18
80x15

Pretty good workout...im really starting to feel good about each and every workout.

[musclesntx]

I'm pretty anti-shoulder only days... Do what you want, but I think the shoulders take a beating on pretty much anything you do with the upper body and don't require a ton of volume themselves - I'd prefer to finish the front and medial delts with chest and the posteriors with back.