Forum
  Classifieds
  News
  Localband
  Shows
  Show Pics
  Polls

  OT Threads
  Other News
  Movies
  VideoGames
  Videos
  TV
  Sports
  Gear
  /r/
  Food

  New Thread
  New Poll

E-mail

New site? Maybe some day.

Username:

SPAM Filter: re-type this

(values are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E, or F)

Message:

UBB enabled. HTML disabled Spam Filtering enabledIcons: (click image to insert) Show All - pop

b i u add: url image video(?)

:	post by largefreakatzero at 2007-04-10 12:04:11

ArrowHead NLI said:

Pushing up as much weight as you can does very little for you except risk hurting yourself, tearing tendons & ligaments. Also, shows very little of how "strong" you are, since it's merely a test of how quickly you can rip the shit out of your fast twitch fibers.

Inversely, 900lbs on a leg press is really not that much, compared to being able to push over a third of that with your chest. I would concentrate on your legs for a while.

After a while, most people will hit a "plateu", and find themselves unable to continue making gains in their exercises. The best thing to do is to switch up the individual exercises, attacking the same muscles in a different way (i.e. - substitute hammer curls for isolation curls), or even to simply take 1 week off. It takes about 4 weeks before muscle will start breaking down, so a week off will not hurt your progress so far.

Dude, please. I'm 33 and have been lifting for a long time. I know by now where the line is between hurting yourself and pushing yourself -- I have gotten hurt before and learned the hard way. All the weight I do, I have gradually trained up to doing. My lifting partner owns the gym and is a personal trainer. We do cycles of heavy weights and cycles of light weights. You are correct, 900 on the sled is not that much, but it's alot for me -- I'm 6'4" and have really long legs. Leg workouts are a chore for me, but I do work legs every week.

You are correct about switching up excercises -- we do the same body parts every week, but something different for them every time.

I disagree about pushing heavy weight -- yes, you can hurt tendons and ligaments if you are lifting incorrectly. But if you have a good spotter (few people know how to spot properly) and you push or pull through properly, heavy weight will actually help strenghten and stretch tendons to break through said "plateaus" (note my correct spelling of "plateau") and eventually help build mass. If you do start feeling tendon issues starting, that's when it is time to reduce the weight and do higher reps. It's amazing how well that helps to repair any problems as well as volumize muscles.

[default homepage]

[print][

1:48:44am Jun 02,2024
load time 0.02410 secs/10 queries]

[search]

[refresh page]