What's your training style?

[Adam2433]

What's your current training style? Why? Is it working? Does it meet your goals? Most importantly... Are you intense enough????

[mentalflex]

Currently hitting it 6 days per week each bodypart twice per week. My own twist on HIT... so far so good. Been growing while keeping bodyfat around 7.0%-7.5%.

Am I intense enough.... well I was hunched over puking this morning after squats I still had three exercises left after that. I killed every one of them.

[Adam2433]

Currently hitting it 6 days per week each bodypart twice per week. My own twist on HIT... so far so good. Been growing while keeping bodyfat around 7.0%-7.5%.

Am I intense enough.... well I was hunched over puking this morning after squats I still had three exercises left after that. I killed every one of them.

That's what the fuck I'm talking about.

[Uncxrt]

Compete in PL, so training style is based on that. Worked with josh Bryant the past 6 months and workout 3 days a week, along with another 2 days of very light cardio and flexibility.

[TLopez]

Currently running 5/3/1.

Mon- Squats
Tues- Bench
Thurs -Deads
Fri- OH Press

Goals are to increase strength I would like to total 1100 in March when I do my 1st PL comp @ 148lbs.

[mentalflex]

Currently running 5/3/1.

Mon- Squats
Tues- Bench
Thurs -Deads
Fri- OH Press

Goals are to increase strength I would like to total 1100 in March when I do my 1st PL comp @ 148lbs.

Dang T, getting down to my weight! What is your total now (estimated)?

[TLopez]

Dang T, getting down to my weight! What is your total now (estimated)?

Yeah, I am currently at 154 -155 body weight.

My gym total is 1095, but that is with my gym PR's (all lifts performed on separate days). Also using straps on the deadlift.

[mentalflex]

Yeah, I am currently at 154 -155 body weight.

My gym total is 1095, but that is with my gym PR's (all lifts performed on separate days). Also using straps on the deadlift.

You a lean little bastard!

[FK86]

Sunday & Wednesday: Full-body weight workouts encompassing lessons and principles I learned from HIT, DC, Max-OT, and 5/3/1.

Monday & Thursday: LISS Cardio, 60 minutes.

Tuesday & Friday: HIIT Cardio running intervals on a treadmill.

Saturday: Off

Why? It works for me and I enjoy it.

[LG1]

Currently: AGVT (Advanced German Volume Training) / 3x-week - "smart volume for me"
Will try to take it up to 4x-week training in January.

LISS cardio 4x-week for 30mins...

Was doing a DC style routine for a while and the body/joints needed a break.

[PhoebeusFenix]

Just restarted 5/3/1 after a more volume based approach for contest prep.

Looking forward to good strength gains, not looking forward to losing the chiseled look.

[jsaild2]

I'm all about trying to get in tune with my body. Goals are bodybuilding physique oriented; growth, shape, symmetry etc. Currently I am cutting.

I used to love high volume, five days a week, standard splits hitting each body part once per week. I found my body doesn't heal up adequately for this.

For almost the past year, I've been doing DC training. It took awhile to wrap my head around the less volume, but I followed the plan religiously and went up nicely in size and strength. Both my weak and good body parts grew more in the first couple blasts than they did in the past couple years. Now I definitely love lesser volume and higher frequency. One thing I learned is that the three rest pauses to failure, statics, widowmakers (weak parts) and extreme stretches beat down my CNS more than I liked. I just seem to not heal as well as others.

Enter now, I'm doing a regimen like PastorPump's with a 3 way split similar to DC that focuses on my weak muscle groups, and that I think will be a little easier on my CNS.

Monday: Chest/Shoulders/Tri's
Tuesday: Bi's/Forearms/Back Width/Back Thickness
Thursday: Calves/Hams/Quads
Friday: Chest/Shoulders/Bi's

Major muscle groups 3 exercises each, and minors 2 exercises each. Only exceptions are forearms get 1 exercise and back gets 5 exercises (2 width, 2 thickness + deadlifts). Mon/Tues/Thurs are 2 working sets each, both to positive failure. One set 8-10 reps and one set 12-15 reps. Friday will be pump work only not reaching failure, and using different points of flexion. As with DC, controlled quality reps and progression in weight/reps are still my goals.

If the above doesn't work as well as I theorize, I will go back to DC training 100%. When I get back to the offseason and kCals are high, I will likely go to the DC 3 way split to bring up weak areas.

Whew, that was long winded. Sorry guys! Lol

[MachMood]

A variation on DC. It's push/pull/legs off repeat setup like a Dc 3 way split. I do this 6-10 weeks then run a Chest/shoulder back legs arms off repeat split with much much more volume. So far so good

[moco]

Right now I'm following my own program in which I utilize principles taken from DC, MD, Yates-style HIT, MI40, etc.

I'm a general believer in warming up and then one all-out set per exercise (although some of these warm-ups may be considered workings sets to others) - whether that's one all-out straight set, a superset, dropset, rest-pause... I incorporate many different techniques. But I use that one all-out set to keep intensity high as well as a way to more effectively gauge progression. I also try to hit each muscle/muscle group from several different angles and from several points throughout the strength curve within a training session to make sure that I activate the maximum amount of muscle fibers. I also incorporate techniques such as intention and extreme stretches.

Right now I'm trying to focus on bringing up my chest, delts, & arms so my split is as follows:

Monday: Hams/Quads/Calves
Tuesday: Rest
Wednesday: Chest/Delts/Tris/Abs
Thursday: Rest
Friday: Back/Bis
Saturday: Chest/Delts/Abs
Sunday: Rest
Monday: Bis/Tris

REPEAT

[breck]

Smolov, currently week 6 of 13 (squatting 4 times per week)...I dunno if I am intense enough, but every workout f'ing hurts and my legs are forever sore. However, I hit a PR for 2 i thought I would never hit for 1. I will probably go back to 5/3/1 or maybe look into the Cube or some type of block periodization...