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My first post here, hello everyone.
Even though most people say DC training and nutrition seems very unconventional, I believe I trained (and ate) in a manner very similar to DC before ever even reading about it.
I've been training for 7 years now, although the first 3 years were pretty much just messing around with the weights on side of track & field and basketball. After quitting both sports my training has been a lot more serious and organized for the last 4 years.
I gained very well on a Heavy Duty program (3 workouts a week) and experimented with various different kinds of methods through the years.
In 1999 I read Stuart McRoberts book Beyond Brawn, which puts a big emphasis on the gradual progression of resistance in training. I kind of believed that one, and have kept a log book ever since. Even though I did experiment with instinctual training and pump-seeking methods, I always did try to at least beat whatever I did last time.
Now I know I should have focused solely on beating what I did the last time, but back then I thought it couldn't be just progression of training weights that would build muscle. So I sort of tried to use many old-school bodybuilding techniques to really "blast" the muscle into growth, and figured that if I could gain strength via supersetting, giant-setting, volume training, pre-exhaustion, and all that kind of exotic "blitz-bombing", I would build more muscle than if I gained strength on simple strength-oriented training.
Needless to say, I was convinced one could only train a muscle once every 7-9 days in order to recuperate properly.
Now I know better.
Around 5 months ago I developed myself a strength-oriented basic program that was split in two workouts and had me working out either every other day or 3 days a week, depending on my schedule.
The program was as outlined:
Workout 1
Workout 2
I did two straight sets on all exercises and my only goal was to increase the poundages in each exercise for a given number of reps.
Because the training frequency was obviously higher than what I had been accustomed to, I made a point to stretch the whole body thouroughly every day (I normally would just stretch on my days off) to aid in recovering from the workouts.
The program worked wonderfully - even though I was on a low-carb cutting diet for the last 6 weeks of it, I could add weight or reps to my exercises almost every single workout. I wonder how I would have progressed had I been in a caloric surplus.
After training 4 months on the routine, I definitely needed a break. My joints had started to ache to some degree, and now I have been resting my CNS and connective tissues by doing higher reps and using a program split in 4 workouts.
Anyway. I had already determined to go back to very basic strength-oriented training, preferably a 2-way split with 3 workouts a week, when I for some reason noticed the Doggcrapp threads at Musclemayhem.
Even though I think I was really on to something after having experienced the effectiveness of the aforementioned program, reading about DC training was sort of a natural next step for me. All the principles made sense right from the start, and I didn't find it unconventional at all because I had been training in a similar manner already.
Nutritionwise, I have been separating carbs and fats for a long time now (although I believe it is John Berardi who was popularised this method the most). For years I have added oil to my protein shakes (in a protein/fat -meal of course), and have used stretching (regular and fascia stretching) for years as well in order to aid recovery.
So, being already used to many of the elements of the DC method, I feel it's only natural to take the next step and take on DC training.
I am currently 6'2" and a little less than 220 lbs - time to gain some serious size. And I am convinced DC is THE way to do it. I might even post some pictures of my progress on it, the "before" pictures would be the ones taken about 3 weeks ago:
(Damn this got to be a lengthy post
; I just wanted to introduce myself - not tell my whole life story)
Even though most people say DC training and nutrition seems very unconventional, I believe I trained (and ate) in a manner very similar to DC before ever even reading about it.
I've been training for 7 years now, although the first 3 years were pretty much just messing around with the weights on side of track & field and basketball. After quitting both sports my training has been a lot more serious and organized for the last 4 years.
I gained very well on a Heavy Duty program (3 workouts a week) and experimented with various different kinds of methods through the years.
In 1999 I read Stuart McRoberts book Beyond Brawn, which puts a big emphasis on the gradual progression of resistance in training. I kind of believed that one, and have kept a log book ever since. Even though I did experiment with instinctual training and pump-seeking methods, I always did try to at least beat whatever I did last time.
Now I know I should have focused solely on beating what I did the last time, but back then I thought it couldn't be just progression of training weights that would build muscle. So I sort of tried to use many old-school bodybuilding techniques to really "blast" the muscle into growth, and figured that if I could gain strength via supersetting, giant-setting, volume training, pre-exhaustion, and all that kind of exotic "blitz-bombing", I would build more muscle than if I gained strength on simple strength-oriented training.
Needless to say, I was convinced one could only train a muscle once every 7-9 days in order to recuperate properly.
Now I know better.
Around 5 months ago I developed myself a strength-oriented basic program that was split in two workouts and had me working out either every other day or 3 days a week, depending on my schedule.
The program was as outlined:
Workout 1
- Front squat
- Leg curl
- Leg press
- Biceps curl
- Triceps extension
Workout 2
- Deadlift (every other w/o dumbbell rows)
- Incline press
- Pull-up
- Seated db press
- Calf raise
I did two straight sets on all exercises and my only goal was to increase the poundages in each exercise for a given number of reps.
Because the training frequency was obviously higher than what I had been accustomed to, I made a point to stretch the whole body thouroughly every day (I normally would just stretch on my days off) to aid in recovering from the workouts.
The program worked wonderfully - even though I was on a low-carb cutting diet for the last 6 weeks of it, I could add weight or reps to my exercises almost every single workout. I wonder how I would have progressed had I been in a caloric surplus.
After training 4 months on the routine, I definitely needed a break. My joints had started to ache to some degree, and now I have been resting my CNS and connective tissues by doing higher reps and using a program split in 4 workouts.
Anyway. I had already determined to go back to very basic strength-oriented training, preferably a 2-way split with 3 workouts a week, when I for some reason noticed the Doggcrapp threads at Musclemayhem.
Even though I think I was really on to something after having experienced the effectiveness of the aforementioned program, reading about DC training was sort of a natural next step for me. All the principles made sense right from the start, and I didn't find it unconventional at all because I had been training in a similar manner already.
Nutritionwise, I have been separating carbs and fats for a long time now (although I believe it is John Berardi who was popularised this method the most). For years I have added oil to my protein shakes (in a protein/fat -meal of course), and have used stretching (regular and fascia stretching) for years as well in order to aid recovery.
So, being already used to many of the elements of the DC method, I feel it's only natural to take the next step and take on DC training.
I am currently 6'2" and a little less than 220 lbs - time to gain some serious size. And I am convinced DC is THE way to do it. I might even post some pictures of my progress on it, the "before" pictures would be the ones taken about 3 weeks ago:
(Damn this got to be a lengthy post
; I just wanted to introduce myself - not tell my whole life story)
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