TheCSWFighter
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I remember reading an article awhile back about this guy who was around 185 pounds 5'11 and was pound for pound one of the strongest people in the world. I can't remember all his lifts but he was a powerlifter. They had an outline of his routine which was he'd do two sets of each exercise and about 1-2 exercises per body part. Such as standing barbell curls, deadlifts, squats, bench press, shoulder press, etc. The first set would be 40% of his max for 2 reps and the second set would be somewhere around 90% of his max for 1-2 reps.
He would do one workout for the weak and hit all the exercises in one session. then he would take a week off and workout the next week. So it was a every other week kind of thing. They explained he did this in order to make sure he had completely recovered. Now I do know that most people including myself look at that and say "screw that". I wouldn't feel right doing on day of working out every other week let alone once a week.
However, there have been times where I have fallen off and taken a week off and then gotten back into it and have had significant gains. If I am working out consecutivly for 8 weeks I'll normally take that week off. Well most rescently I was in the gym three weeks ago and benched 225 and barely got 2 reps. Then I stopped lifting for those three weeks and didn't eat all that great but it wasn't all that bad. I went back to the gym yesterday upset with myself that I hadn't gone in awhile and ended up putting up 245 for 2 reps and felt I could do 250 for 2 reps. I decided to call it a day at 245 though.
The only thing I supplement with is multivitamins but I've been slacking with that to. So I think the could be a couple of reasons for this. It could either be all that rest let me recoup all the way. Or it could be because I had lifted very hard for 2 years and then lifted off and on for awhile and then when at college I didn't even walk into a wieght room for 6 months. I'm fairly tempted to try to look into this a tad bit more but I just don't think I'll stick with the lifting if I do it once every other week due to me having the tendency to fall off the map as of lately. Thoughts?
He would do one workout for the weak and hit all the exercises in one session. then he would take a week off and workout the next week. So it was a every other week kind of thing. They explained he did this in order to make sure he had completely recovered. Now I do know that most people including myself look at that and say "screw that". I wouldn't feel right doing on day of working out every other week let alone once a week.
However, there have been times where I have fallen off and taken a week off and then gotten back into it and have had significant gains. If I am working out consecutivly for 8 weeks I'll normally take that week off. Well most rescently I was in the gym three weeks ago and benched 225 and barely got 2 reps. Then I stopped lifting for those three weeks and didn't eat all that great but it wasn't all that bad. I went back to the gym yesterday upset with myself that I hadn't gone in awhile and ended up putting up 245 for 2 reps and felt I could do 250 for 2 reps. I decided to call it a day at 245 though.
The only thing I supplement with is multivitamins but I've been slacking with that to. So I think the could be a couple of reasons for this. It could either be all that rest let me recoup all the way. Or it could be because I had lifted very hard for 2 years and then lifted off and on for awhile and then when at college I didn't even walk into a wieght room for 6 months. I'm fairly tempted to try to look into this a tad bit more but I just don't think I'll stick with the lifting if I do it once every other week due to me having the tendency to fall off the map as of lately. Thoughts?