Stupid Training Tricks
December 14th 2006 11:38
Since your body does not have its own brain, it can be expected to do whatever stupidly designed training program you undertake. It will not,however,respond in any but its own manner. If you train too little it will adapt more slowly than you like. If you work too hard, it will break or shut down. Additionally, it will allow you to vastly overwork its smaller muscle groups without an adverse overall effects, but it will not allow these over trained muscles to grow as much as you might desire. If you refuse to ask the larger muscles groups to do a sufficient amount of work you will never reach the levels of fitness that promote, for instance, general health.
Here are some stupid approaches to training with weights which I have seen and what I think is the body's response to such methods:
1. Forget about your legs altogether and just train arms and chest. Your selected muscles will grow much faster and bigger than you think. These groups do not tax the body's overall energy system and you will have a large reservoir of energy with which to attack these muscles. However, if you are not otherwise slim and fat free, this approach will never take an ounce of fat off of you. You will not have bigger lungs or heart under that big chest.
2. Go to the gym and train your back today and then return tomorrow to do your bicep workout. The smaller muscle groups are always worked very hard by the work you do on your larger groups. When you are working on difficult back exercises, you arms are being significantly stimulated. (The last time I did heavy pull downs my biceps were aching.) Biceps work is best done after back and, if you try to do as many bicep sets as you do for your back, your biceps will become smaller to handle all of the sets in which they have to participate.
3. Train the backs of your legs after you train the fronts. Working hard on the quadriceps is by far the most taxing work for your overall energy system by far. Whatever you attempt to exercise after serious quadriceps work will be the victim of both physical and emotional fatigue. This means they will be poorly attended to and will grow very little.Yet, those who try to train legs at all often fall into a routine of adding the hamstrings to the end of the quadriceps workout. That means that the large and vital backs of legs are given whatever energy and attention span is left from the earlier leg work. The result is a predictable lack of development. If you can train much of anything after your quads with any vigor at all you probably need to reevaluate the intensity of your quad workout.
4. This one is somewhat gratuitous. If you are doing set after set of barbell bench presses because you really want a big chest, your chest will not respond as well as you might wish. The barbell bench press occupies the front of the deltoid muscle, the muscles of the upper back, and especially the triceps of the upper arm in addition to the pectoral muscles. In my opinion the relative strength of your triceps dictates how much you can bench and thereby limits the effectiveness of barbell bench presses for building the chest. If you actually want a bigger chest, you cannot violate the kinesiological orientation of the body and still get it. Try dumbbell flyes off a flat bench and you will be doing a movement which targets primarily the pectoral muscles. Your body knows that pectoral muscles function is to move the upper arm across the torso. Thats what dumbbell flyes do. Use the bench press for what it is designed to do-build up your ego and render you a stud. Your servant, as always.
1. Forget about your legs altogether and just train arms and chest. Your selected muscles will grow much faster and bigger than you think. These groups do not tax the body's overall energy system and you will have a large reservoir of energy with which to attack these muscles. However, if you are not otherwise slim and fat free, this approach will never take an ounce of fat off of you. You will not have bigger lungs or heart under that big chest.
2. Go to the gym and train your back today and then return tomorrow to do your bicep workout. The smaller muscle groups are always worked very hard by the work you do on your larger groups. When you are working on difficult back exercises, you arms are being significantly stimulated. (The last time I did heavy pull downs my biceps were aching.) Biceps work is best done after back and, if you try to do as many bicep sets as you do for your back, your biceps will become smaller to handle all of the sets in which they have to participate.
4. This one is somewhat gratuitous. If you are doing set after set of barbell bench presses because you really want a big chest, your chest will not respond as well as you might wish. The barbell bench press occupies the front of the deltoid muscle, the muscles of the upper back, and especially the triceps of the upper arm in addition to the pectoral muscles. In my opinion the relative strength of your triceps dictates how much you can bench and thereby limits the effectiveness of barbell bench presses for building the chest. If you actually want a bigger chest, you cannot violate the kinesiological orientation of the body and still get it. Try dumbbell flyes off a flat bench and you will be doing a movement which targets primarily the pectoral muscles. Your body knows that pectoral muscles function is to move the upper arm across the torso. Thats what dumbbell flyes do. Use the bench press for what it is designed to do-build up your ego and render you a stud. Your servant, as always.
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Comment by katyzzz
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I have no desire to become a stud.
But, well written, very useful information that I doubt too many have, and unfortunately, too few will do anything about adopting your recommendations,
katyzzz