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The first cautions I see associated with DC training is that it is not for teenagers or anyone who hasn't been training for a large number of years. They say it is too intense and you won't be able to handle it.
But did these people ever try DC training when they were teenagers?
See I am the ultimate hardgainer. I've been lifting- sometimes seriously, sometimes not seriously at all, for about 2 years. Much of that time has been disheartening because frankly I barely put on any muscle, even with the use of any number of highly touted supplements. Then I stumbled along DC training from the internet, and eased my way into it, experimenting with rest pause sets and full body workouts, before going fully into it.
I've now gone through each split 3 times (9 DC workouts), and for the first time in my life I'm really growing a significant amount of muscle.
The main variations I've taken from real DC'ing-
Cut out the extreme stretching. Instead I do a full body warmup including running and some extremely lightweight upper body dumbbell exercises and stretch before lifting. The extreme stretching caused severe joint pain, especially the back stretch, and really fucked up my recovery time. I still do the quad stretch because there is no joint pain.
My split is different. Split 1 is back width, back thickness, triceps, shoulders, hamstrings
Split 2 is chest, biceps, quads, calves, and forearms. I decided on this as the best way to keep down recovery time and give full effort on each muscle group.
With most exercises that do a rest pause I end on 2 negatives. With triceps and biceps I usually follow my main exercise with a drop set of cable curls or pushdowns.
Last difference is that I don't have a weekly split- I workout every other day. If a muscle in particular can't move then I give myself the extra rest day as needed (usually happens after front squat day.)
The Results:
So far I've doubled my chinups, my dumbbell bench press is up 33%, my clean and press is up 20%, and my deadlifts and squats are both up 35%. (in 19 days.) I've put on 5lbs and my love handles are evaporating so it may even be more than 5 lbs of muscle.
From the results alone I'd say DC is a godsend! But more than that, it barely feels like work. All those people who say DC is a lazy man's program are, in a weird way, right. Because DC training is fun. Workouts are fun because they are full of good exercises instead of the BS stuff I used to have to do on isolation days. I don't waste any time counting calories. I may be working hard as hell for my hour in the gym, but it's a fun kind of hard work. On the whole I feel like I'm working smarter and my volume training friends are working harder.
I haven't had any real issue with recovery time. I think that those people saying this is a bad idea for teenagers are forgetting that those of us with open growth plates have significantly enhanced recovery ability over ya'll old folks
, and we can probably handle this beating better than an older person of the same experience and strength level. BCAAs also help, I just started using those last week.
Thanks for reading, thought I'd share. For those of you who are 18-19 and haven't tried DC, my recommendation would be to give it a shot and just be careful.
But did these people ever try DC training when they were teenagers?
See I am the ultimate hardgainer. I've been lifting- sometimes seriously, sometimes not seriously at all, for about 2 years. Much of that time has been disheartening because frankly I barely put on any muscle, even with the use of any number of highly touted supplements. Then I stumbled along DC training from the internet, and eased my way into it, experimenting with rest pause sets and full body workouts, before going fully into it.
I've now gone through each split 3 times (9 DC workouts), and for the first time in my life I'm really growing a significant amount of muscle.
The main variations I've taken from real DC'ing-
Cut out the extreme stretching. Instead I do a full body warmup including running and some extremely lightweight upper body dumbbell exercises and stretch before lifting. The extreme stretching caused severe joint pain, especially the back stretch, and really fucked up my recovery time. I still do the quad stretch because there is no joint pain.
My split is different. Split 1 is back width, back thickness, triceps, shoulders, hamstrings
Split 2 is chest, biceps, quads, calves, and forearms. I decided on this as the best way to keep down recovery time and give full effort on each muscle group.
With most exercises that do a rest pause I end on 2 negatives. With triceps and biceps I usually follow my main exercise with a drop set of cable curls or pushdowns.
Last difference is that I don't have a weekly split- I workout every other day. If a muscle in particular can't move then I give myself the extra rest day as needed (usually happens after front squat day.)
The Results:
So far I've doubled my chinups, my dumbbell bench press is up 33%, my clean and press is up 20%, and my deadlifts and squats are both up 35%. (in 19 days.) I've put on 5lbs and my love handles are evaporating so it may even be more than 5 lbs of muscle.
From the results alone I'd say DC is a godsend! But more than that, it barely feels like work. All those people who say DC is a lazy man's program are, in a weird way, right. Because DC training is fun. Workouts are fun because they are full of good exercises instead of the BS stuff I used to have to do on isolation days. I don't waste any time counting calories. I may be working hard as hell for my hour in the gym, but it's a fun kind of hard work. On the whole I feel like I'm working smarter and my volume training friends are working harder.
I haven't had any real issue with recovery time. I think that those people saying this is a bad idea for teenagers are forgetting that those of us with open growth plates have significantly enhanced recovery ability over ya'll old folks
, and we can probably handle this beating better than an older person of the same experience and strength level. BCAAs also help, I just started using those last week.Thanks for reading, thought I'd share. For those of you who are 18-19 and haven't tried DC, my recommendation would be to give it a shot and just be careful.
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