Anybody into weight lifting/body building?

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Aw3s0m3 said:
That's what I'm saying about muscle confusion. If you stick to 1 program your body gets used to it and starts to plateau. At that point you'll notice very little or no gains at all. You need to keep switching things up every few weeks so that your body doesn't get used to it


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I like to switch in regards intensity and sometimes auxiliary exercises/ progressive overload. I believe in adjusting workouts- but not completely switching in different programs every few weeks. I've done the 5 3 1 programming now for 8 weeks- and gained 30lbs on my bench- 60lbs in my squat- and 30 lbs on my deadlift.

Tankdempsey has done it for over a year now and still seeing gains.

I think of it like running- I can continually up my jogging distance- and still see endurance gains. But I'm not about to start doing suicides for muscle confusion.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you in why you mean by switching things up? Would you consider this switching up: the standard of the 5 3 1 program that has you increase the weight on each exercise every cycle by 5-10lbs? Or do you mean to the extreme of doing bench press in one program and then a few weeks later doing push ups instead?




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I mean the extreme. Like this week for chest I do incline bench, flat db bench, hammer strength incline db press, decline press, decline cable flys and flat db flys. I do that for 3 weeks with the first week pyramiding up (4 sets each), 2nd week low weight high rep (4 sets each), and 3rd week high weight low rep (6 sets each) and I do it on Thursday followed by back on Friday. Next week I will be doing flat bench, flat cable bench, incline db press, decline db press, flat db flys and single armed push-ups and I will do it on Tuesday followed by arms the next. Everything switches. I started doing this about 6 months ago and my flat bench went from 210lbs to 280lbs. My high bar squat went from 315 to 420 and my high row went from 310 to 450. I had a decent amount of rest though because I had a hernia last year so I couldn't go 100% until around February.


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So out of curiousness what are your guys' fitness goals? More powerlifting focused or body building? And by that mean would you rather look like you can lift a ton of weight and not be able to lift as much; or be able to lift a ton of weight and be jacked. Of course everyone wants both but what would you guys choose?


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zapantha said:
So out of curiousness what are your guys' fitness goals? More powerlifting focused or body building? And by that mean would you rather look like you can lift a ton of weight and not be able to lift as much; or be able to lift a ton of weight and be jacked. Of course everyone wants both but what would you guys choose?


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A personal goal for myself is to be 195-200 and shredded. I won't be able to do this until football season is over though... But long term as in end of next year that is my goal. Id also like to consistently bench in the 300's and squat over 400. If I don't do football at the next level (division 3) I'm quitting all powerlifting.

Just to be clear on what I mean by powerlifting, I mean hang cleans, jerks, that type of thing.

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My goal is just to get as strong as my body will allow it. The only sup I take is my protein. I don't wanna look abnormally huge like pro bodybuilders such as Kai Greene. just normal but obviously fit.


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Aw3s0m3 said:
My goal is just to get as strong as my body will allow it. The only sup I take is my protein. I don't wanna look abnormally huge like pro bodybuilders such as Kai Greene. just normal but obviously fit.


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Kai claims he is natural. Do I believe him? Heck no... Either way, he's a row model of mine but I don't ever want to look like him lol


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zapantha said:
Oh cool so like Olympic lifting- powerlifting focuses only on bench, squat, dead. Olympic lifting I heard I a lot harder because there's much more technique


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I love those three, it's just that if I'm lifting for aesthetic reasons, I see no need to do explosive based workouts such as the cleans that you see Olympic competitors doing.


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TankDempsey said:
Kai claims he is natural. Do I believe him? Heck no... Either way, he's a row model of mine but I don't ever want to look like him lol


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Hahaha there's no way he's all natural. Especially since he's sponsored by all these sup company's. If you've got Instagram check out bradleymartyn. That guys my role model


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