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Where are u MO??
What is a session worth very interested in your methods, Milos preaches this sort of training but its hard to get it exactly right unless your showed in person.
Where are u MO??
What is a session worth very interested in your methods, Milos preaches this sort of training but its hard to get it exactly right unless your showed in person.
why dont you pm him for the details buddy?Originally Posted by Newguy22
Will do was just thinking out loud
My Coach in Brisbane who was Mr Natural Australia many years back trains like this, I can hardley even walk out of his studio when I'm finished an hour with him. Light weights, it's amazing, he charges like $50 an hour for it, one on one. So cheap considering his experience. You know it's great when your coach/trainer is Huge and has a wall full of tropheys.
Im not here to sell myself guys, i just honestly love teaching.
I do this for free on this forum. Of course if you needed a hands on approach (as some of it is really hands on and so much can be done over the interent) then by all means, come to me while i am at work and join in as others have done, otherwise it is all here in black and white FOR FREE.
Private questions in private messages though please.
Im not going to have a pathetic attempt at gaining clients from this forum and make myself look like a sales man.
I love bodybuilding and get repaid by the look on someones face after a workout more so than money!
There is only so much i can do and explain in writting though, so if you need help, by all means, join me in a workout :)
MO,
You did show me how to develop the various areas of the arms. Can you just run past me what exercise and the form I use to target my lower tricep?
Thanks
Missed this one CM, sorry!
It was pretty hands on that tricep workout but i will try and explain it later in this thread in writting.
Will get things rolling again as i have built up some more thoughts in my head about a few things in the time this thread has been inactive.
One of the thoughts that are fresh in my head is the number one thing that I preach in regards to lifting and choosing the correct weight for your set - "THE MIND-MUSCLE CONNECTION"
Just looking around seeing how many people just have NO IDEA when it comes to targetting the muscle that they are TRYING to stimulate. But then again, if they knew what the word "stimulate" meant, they wouldn't be lifting the way they do.
I type this in regards for EVERY AND ALL BODYPARTS that you are trying to work:
Mind-Muscle connection and focus on PROPER lifting:
My observation, and most likely still a disease among some members in here too is that they make their training too long and strung out. They rest TOO LONG in between sets. They use TOO MUCH WEIGHT on their exercises.
They cheat so much that they are forced to focus their minds only on lifting the weight rather than working the muscle!
Cheating so much (eg: barbell bicep curl) that they are forced to bring other muscle groups like the delts and the back into play to help curl the weight up....THE ISOLATION OF THE ARM MUSCLE IS NOW LOST!
There is no understanding of the huge difference between lifting a weight and working a muscle.
Only in the mind-set of "how much" instead of just a simple..."how".
Mainly because they have read or been told coming into bodybuilding that the size of a muscle is directly related to its strength - they concentrate on lifting more and more weight NO MATTER HOW SLOPPY their form is! (ego getting the best of them).
They forget (well pretty much don't know) that the targetted muscle only gets stronger and bigger if it does MOST OF THE LIFTING and recieves the MOST OVERLOAD AND MUSCLE STIMULATION.
If the overload is put on other muscle groups, and heavier weights are lifted ONLY WITH THE ASSISTANCE of other muscle groups, the connection between strength and development goes right out the wondow!
The best routines are short BUT FAST AND INTENSE.
All form should be strict - re: strict does not mean 100% - although try the best you can. We are human, not robots. A LITTLE body english / rhythm is ok but this should only start to happen when the going gets tough...half way through and near the end of your workout.
Keep resting time inbetween sets, short.
- Putting your mind into the muscle:
The idea is to STIMULATE THE MUSCLE you are working, to make it ache, burn and pump up. If these things arn't happening to let's say, your biceps and triceps as you are training them, then you are doing something wrong. It will be ineffective.
Mentally move your brain and place it into the muscle group you are trying to work! MAXIMIZE muscle stimulation in the exact target muscle group!
This is not something that comes from your first attempt at it. It's a mental thing to train your mind into the muscle you are isolating but I can assure you if you are not full of ego and can let the fact go that you must lift big to get big - then this will be easy!
One way to this is by DEEP CONCENTRATION.
Your mind is focused ONLY on the muscle being worked - NOT ON LIFTING THE WEIGHT.
While doing your set, shut out noises in the gym and visualize in your mind's "eye", the muscle working - STRETCHING AND SQUEEZING! Imagine them growing bigger with every rep.
Thats the mental part of it.
There is also understanding how to perform an exercise CORRECTLY and to do them in a way that will totally isolate the muscle and at the same time MAXIMIZING the feel of the muscle and the stimulation it is recieving with every rep.
Heaps of factors will affect the exercise you are performing and how well you work a muscle to get THE MOST out of the particular exercise depending what the exercise is - which there are many and would take forever to go through all of them, so let's continue with the barbell curl as an example - how you HOLD the bar, the width of your GRIP, the POSITION of your body, elbows, wrists etc..etc...
Which exercises should I do then?
The method that allows you to FEEL and WORK the chosen muscle group THE MOST is the right exercise for YOU! This will vary with everyone.
This is something that could go for an hour length in explaination for only ONE muscle group alone but that is the basic jist of it.
Will give a detailed example of 'mind and muscle connection' when working something like the biceps...
Thanks M.O, Over the past month or so i have been using this technique. i still dont have it down 100% but i am getting close it takes a while to change from what your used to but i am defintaly seeing gains.
hey M.O
check this out this bloke talks of simalar thing to youself, about lowering weight ect.
http://www.bodyfatguide.com/MuscleMassMyths.html
also has some interesting points about protein and diet.?
Cheers M.O...
I've been keen to hear more of these training ideas for a while too... While I haven't fully converted from heavy lifting (because I also like training specifically for strength), I've definitely incorporated this style into my workouts...
try 5-10 seconds lowering the weight and 5-10 seconds lifting the weight on bench press. fucking kills ya! nowhere near what you can normally bench either i got a mate to do that at the gym last week he was skeptical as but said the next day that he hasnt hurt like that in a while!
that would be pretty cool if pain had something to do with progress
'if'
pain itself doesnt but its a pretty good indicator if that the muscle was stimulated more than normal yeah?
maybe.....
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