Strength Training & Iron Game

training for us oldies

feeds@kickapps.com (manning) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:53:47 PST

hi to everybody,,, i just felt like saying a few words about this subject,with the recent discussions over Brooks new book etc,i realise that i obviously don't know everything about training,far from it,but it does seem to me that Dick Conner got it right when he wrote in Hardgainer issue 86 that the great lesson of drug free lifting was to train less and train harder.i think that really says it all.even on reduced volume routines we probably do to much and train to often.how many of us would actually just train one particular lift on one training day,and lets say train two other lifts each on their own over lets say a ten day period?the progress you make ,,you cant help but enjoy it!many of the old timers trained along these lines.many of these guys where the strongest that ever lived.From what i have read of Bobs training ideas etc it would seem that the older trainee trains every 5 days or so and when i asked Jim about his most productivr training routine it seems it was quite...

Reaching Strength/Muscular Potential

feeds@kickapps.com (Steve) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:36:14 PST

Do you believe It is possible to reach your maximum strength/muscular potential using the one set to failure method?

Cheers

Steve

Brooks's New Book

feeds@kickapps.com (J Duggan) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:38:41 PST

I just received a copy of Brooks Kubik's new book "Gray Hair and Black Iron." Has anyone read it yet? Any opinions? I just started reading it. I'm interested in his ideas as they relate to strength training for older lifters. By any definition, I am an older lifter, and I am curious as to how he is training today. What's great about this forum, is that a lot of us are in the same boat, and the exchange of ideas is beneficial to all of us. I will let you all know what I think of the book.

Checking in

feeds@kickapps.com (Silverback1946) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:21:10 PST

Got a nice E-mail from Bob today and thought I'd check in and say hi to everyone. I'm still at it, however not as hard at it as I once was. Hope everyone is healthy and doing well.

Jim Bryan.

my next cycle 2

feeds@kickapps.com (manning) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:33:56 PST

happy new year to you all!.......im mid way thru my current cycle and need to tap the brains of the board,I'm thinking of training in a 9,6,3 format in my next cycle and wondered how you guys perform such a workout.do i add weight when i get 9,6,3 with set weights on an exercise?or wait until i can do say 5 reps with the 3 rep load?any tips would be helpful thank you,,,,john

Resolutinistas

feeds@kickapps.com (keith2237) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:42:52 PST

Now begins the time of year I dread. The gym being full of the resolutionistas. Ah, well. Give 'em a couple of months and it will be back to normal.Viva la resolution!

Keith.

Merry Christmas

feeds@kickapps.com (keith2237) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:27:03 PST

Merry Christmas to all and a Blessed New Year!!!

training

feeds@kickapps.com (manning) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:05:23 PST

hello to everyone,as we come towards Christmas and the end of this year i wanted to thank you all for any help or advice handed my way,let you all know that my rest pause training is going splendedly and wish you all a very happy Christmas.

trap bar

feeds@kickapps.com (manning) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:52:20 PST

hello to everyone,just wondered if any of you had ever used a trap,shrug bar that wasn't of the diamond shape,you cannot buy the Gerrard bar in the UK .all trap bars here are hexagonal,thanks.... i was thinking the other day how many of us live thousands of miles apart,yet train along many of the same principles. some of us may even use the same rep and set scheme for some exercises. but few of us have trained with or watched each other train.if we did we may find that even though lets say we all completed 1x 5 reps for one top set of bench presses our time under load may be very different,we would think we where completing the same exercise as each other but it would be very different,with this in mind it takes me 40 seconds to complete my set of 5.i just thought it may be interesting,amusing to see how we differ,,, thanks john

The High Pull - An Excellent Exercise

feeds@kickapps.com (workforcewarrior) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:15:54 PST

Over the last couple years, I have become a real fan of the barbell high pull. It really is an effective exercise and I believe it stands on equal footing overall with rows, deads and cleans. This is not an attempt to prove it is the best back exercise on the planet, but to give some of my thoughts on why it is a worthy tool in the training toolbox.
When I refer to the high pull, I simply mean grabbing a bar with an overhand, shoulder width (usually) grip and pulling it up somewhere between the waist and the head without flipping the bar back at the top as with a clean. Though I have read some good articles on form in some old issues of Milo and other publications, I keep it pretty simple.

Some nifty advantages of the high pull are: it is probably the heaviest lift you will ever contract your arm with. Though, I don't know that it's a prescritption for herculean biceps, it sure does strengthen all that connective tissue and forearms. Slowing that heavy...

Hi everyone from Osmo

feeds@kickapps.com (Osmo Kiiha) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:02:18 PST

Hi Bob, I finally got on here. The forum looks good. Osmo

superslow

feeds@kickapps.com (grffn) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:10:57 PST

been reading alot of superslow stuff lately. Very scientifically backed info thats for sure. Anyone got any thoughts/experience with it. 10/10 cadence(officially). I did try it awhile back and remember hating it but may give it another shot. Anyone want to talk me out of it???

4 Ways to train to failure

feeds@kickapps.com (workforcewarrior) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:30:03 PST

Forum,

In my humble opinion, there are four types of training to failure. I would be interested to know people's personal experience with which mode they use most and find most effective. The first type of a failure is a good honest set where the last rep just stalls and won't go up. You are pumped and slightly burning, but you don't yell or dig deep to make it go up. While your mind may be into the movement to a point, there is no real psychological supplementation to will the weight up. Your set is done, time to prep for the next one. This type of failure is compatible with higher volume training for most conditioned individuals. Jack Lalanne recommend 20 sets per bodypart, all done to failure. I'm sure this level of failure is what he recommends.

The second type of failure involves the maximimum amount of willpower you can use without making it a life or death mental framework. The last rep under your own power may take six or...

Equipment Question

feeds@kickapps.com (J Duggan) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:39:19 PST

I had the opportunity the other day to use a Hammer Strength V-Squat machine. I thought it was a pretty good machine--very similar to the Southern Exercise Tru-Squat machine. Since it was the first time I had ever used it I only did a couple of sets of ten to get a feel for it. I was wondering if anyone on the forum has had any experience with it, and what their opinions were.

my next cycle

feeds@kickapps.com (manning) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:34:09 PST

hello,i am just coming to the end of my current cycle and am going to give rest pause training a serious try.i wondered if you gentlemen would share any wisdom or tips,thoughts that you may have on the subject.i plan to be pressing,chinning with weight and dead lifting,with the addition of a little neck and grip work.any input is appreciated so thank you

my mate mike

feeds@kickapps.com (manning) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:25:21 PST

hi i was working this last week at an old friends house of mine and we got to talking about training,his name is mike baker,and he is around seventy.he had his own gym,and a massive sign up saying,"no drugs,drug users;he says it was the only gym to do this in the UK at the time.he was telling me how he used to train,and it was quite volume related compared to what most of us here would do today,having said that he only ever did one top set of anything.working down to quite low reps in most exercises.he had a very good physic and was very strong,he at one point in his twenties was eating twenty four raw eggs a day! god talk about dedication.i heard some stories of his meetings with some of the greats as Reg Park, and others,it made me realise how little dedication i really put into my training,anyway it was good to get an in-site into the lifestyle of one of the older drug free for life trainers.all the best .

The NS Inner Circle looks GREAT!

feeds@kickapps.com (Selvey 26) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:16:07 PST

Bob, great job on the site! I've been away awhile but was surprised when I saw the site again. It really looks great and I love the quotes from you and Steiner! This is the best place on the NET to get honest drug-free information but I can't believe that few people take advantage of it! I mean there are many readers (about 40-50 visitors per day) but most just read and are affraid to post. C' mon people! Anyway, great job Bob and also to the mods Jim and John. I guess its better to have less posts (but quality info) and happy readers than the garbage thats on most other sites.

A Good New Book

feeds@kickapps.com (M BOB WHELAN) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:10:50 PST

A good new book: Workforce Warrior

Latest Workout

feeds@kickapps.com (bigcracker) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:07:38 PST

Man this place is not as lively as it once was! Anyway, since I have been training for a Highland Game this coming weekend I thought I'd share what I have been doing in the weight room. My workouts had varied some with explosive work doing "stone" squats ( a version of single leg squats), alot of Olympic lifts and supplemental lifts and Complexes. Yesterday's workout took one hour exactly, including the time it took to change clothes. Short, heavy and hard.

For a warm up I did 10 easy minutes on a recumbent exercise bike then 2 sets of a Dan John complex:
Row x 8
Clean x 8
Front Squat x 8
Press x 8
Back squat x 8
Good Mornings x 8

All of the above was done with a mere 95lbs loaded on the bar. The bar was picked up once and no set down until all exercises were completed. That made one set.

I then moved on to Power Cleans 5x 3, then 3x1 at 215lbs
Front Squats 5x3 (...

Took a Page from Bob!!

feeds@kickapps.com (bigcracker) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:29:11 PST

Greetings y'all!! Well yesterday was my 42d birthday and as I am in yet another location away from home and people I care about, I spent it lifting. I picked on lift, lightened the weight and did 42 reps with it,. I chose the overhead squat. It felt so good, I did cleans that way next. For awhile I was afriad this might be my last birthday on Earth! My heart was pounding and as Hoffman would say I was "huffing and puffing"! I then did some push jerks and one arm DB snatches Goerner style 3 reps but starting at the 25s and working up to the 115s (that is as big as they got at the base gym). All told the workout took almost exactly 30mins start to finish. I was soaked, breathless and yet invigorated. I think i will make this a tradition but....I am gonna stop at 50!!