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Old 03-02-2005, 05:31 PM   #1
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German Volume Training

Any thoughts on this training style, any good? In terms of size and/or strength?
 
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Old 03-02-2005, 11:25 PM   #2
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It works great for size. It was one of the best programs I have ever tried for size gains.
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 01:14 AM   #3
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I gained quite a bit doing it. I was on a 1-test/4-AD/1,4-diol cycle at the time and bulking hard, so no suprise there I guess
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 10:06 AM   #4
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can someone post there split and what exercises they did while do this style of training.
 
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interested!
 
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mine followed Poliquin's pretty strict, no major changes. You've looked at the sticky at top, right? You can make changes if you want, but I didn't really see much need to.
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 11:19 AM   #7
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the link is not working for me, can you post the actual website?
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 11:38 AM   #8
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this link is in the sticky, is this not working for you?

http://www.anabolicminds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=659
 
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dont know what the deal is, it wont work, whats the site?
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 12:01 PM   #10
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the link works man!

http://www.anabolicminds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=659
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 01:38 PM   #11
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mine followed Poliquin's pretty strict, no major changes. You've looked at the sticky at top, right? You can make changes if you want, but I didn't really see much need to.
Same here. Just stick with the basics.
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 04:33 PM   #12
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one thing I dont understand. Do you do the same exercise for each body part each week? For example, for the first week you choose flat bench, should you stick to flat bench EVERY time you do chest?
 
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Old 03-03-2005, 06:05 PM   #13
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If I remember right I think you do the first 5-6 weeks with flat bench, then change to incline bench for the remaining 5-6 weeks. I would have to read over it again to be sure.
 
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So your supposed to do back and chest on the same day. But I decided to do just chest and see how it went. I bench around 350, so I decided to start with 185. I could to 10 until the 8th set, then I got 9, 8 and 6. Man **** is hard!!!!!!!I couldnt believe it.
 
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GVT, good stuff.

I'm on the Intermediate phase right now and I love it. I follow the 60 second rest period between sets (I don't superset), but I slack a bit with the 4-5 second negatives (more like 2-3). I'm alternating core compound exercises for each bodypart per session. I'll do BB bench 10x follwed with 3x incline DB and the next session I'll do DB Bench 10x and dips 3x.

I didn't like training chest and back the same day so I ended up doing chest/shoulders and back/bi's in difft wo's. But that's just me....
 
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Something like this will net results for like 6 weeks at best before you need to rework it. It will also put a hurt on any weak links you have and induce a lot of general fatigue.
 
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ill vouch for its effectiveness. the times ive trained GVT, i did tweak the selection of exercises.
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I did legs a few days ago, 10 sets of 10 deep swats at 185, I almost called in sick from work. It takes me like a 1 min just to walk down small flight of stares.
 
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Yeah, Buddy... did the same w/deads a few days ago; same weight and reps. The walk to my car from my condo is like the Bataan death march.
 
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