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I always thought Arnold was an alien!!! lol

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rysigpi

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So im bored here at college and pick up my roommates Muscle and Fitness. It's an old issue. Jan. 2005. I find a section dedicated to Arnolds training. Okay Im thinkin, lets see what these knuckleheads wrote for his training....

They said he paired chest and back on the same day and it was such an intense workout. It said how he went to South Africa to workout with several experienced bodybuilders. "two of his training partners passed out cold and a third became so ill that he lost his breakfast! DID WE MENTION THAT HE PERFORMED THIS WORKOUT THREE DAYS A WEEK?"

Okay, they say he did chest and back three times a week!!!! WTF? I look at what they have written as his work outs. 21 sets for chest and 23 for back each workout!! That is 63 sets for chest and 69 sets for back a week!

Can these writers not make up something believable? For crying out loud.

Note: Im sure this has been posted before, but Im pissed as I mentioned it to my roommate and he is like dude, that is crazy. No wonder why that guy was soooo HUGE! I'm like you believe that? He's like, yeah, why would they lie?

It was all I could do from telling him he was fricken stupid.

Another thing i liked on the article was that it put his deadlifts at the end of all back exercises. Who does deadlifts last??!!! let alone 3 days a week!!!!

baahahahahahahah
 
Yeah he is a freak, as are all pros.

On the other hand. Those workouts they write up are so stupid it just makes me mad. If i saw the writers I would :nutkick: . They even had an article on training each side of your body on diff. days.

Thank god I didnt waste my money on buying that mag. All the muscle tech crap and the worst made up work outs that the "pros follow" :run: :rofl: :trout: :wtf:
 
Id say be more sceptical about ads that someone has been paid to be in, great example greg kovacs, purportedly one of the biggest strongest builders ever, alas from what ive seen hes either full of shiet or had an early arrivla of manopause. lol
Arnold, ronnie, dorian all have very different styles but if it works for their bodies... I think the lesson is try different things listen to your body, you may have your own effective but obscure way of finding successs for your body.
 
I don't believe one ad where there is any money involved. As for the workouts posted for arnie in this issue, I think they are full of sh!t too. No way he max effort, ballz to the wallz deadlifted 3 times a week. Let alone deadlift at the end of a workout....

This thread was more of me venting in how I thought the writers of M&F were horrible.......I think a couple may have interpretted it differently.

Ryno
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I am pretty sure I remember reading that Arnold would hype up his workouts to **** around with the minds of other competitiors.
 
I am pretty sure I remember reading that Arnold would hype up his workouts to **** around with the minds of other competitiors.
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No doubt, as a big part of Arnold's strategy was the psychological aspect of freaking out the competition. He was /is a genetic freak no doubt - but some of those workouts are just unbelievable.

BV
 
Yeah, he probably destroyed some competition b/c they didn't realize he was lying to them, so they followed his pseudo-advice.
 
in the arnold encylopedia (sp?), his competition phase of lifting is insane. if it's real, of course. however, the updated one was written many years after his competition days, so i don't know why he would lie about it. arnold is, as stated, a genetic freak.
 
I think it's a little bit of both. He was known for 2 hour marathon lifting sessions and these are on video but those routines in the articles are pretty crazy. He definitely like to screw with people's minds..it's how he kept Farigno at bay by making him overtrain. LOL, poor Lou.
 
Remember that part in Pumping Iron where he was telling the story about how he told the newbie competitor to scream at the top of his lungs whenever he hit a pose?? Priceless...:)

BV
 
rysigpi said:
So im bored here at college and pick up my roommates Muscle and Fitness. It's an old issue. Jan. 2005. I find a section dedicated to Arnolds training. Okay Im thinkin, lets see what these knuckleheads wrote for his training....

They said he paired chest and back on the same day and it was such an intense workout. It said how he went to South Africa to workout with several experienced bodybuilders. "two of his training partners passed out cold and a third became so ill that he lost his breakfast! DID WE MENTION THAT HE PERFORMED THIS WORKOUT THREE DAYS A WEEK?"

Okay, they say he did chest and back three times a week!!!! WTF? I look at what they have written as his work outs. 21 sets for chest and 23 for back each workout!! That is 63 sets for chest and 69 sets for back a week!

Can these writers not make up something believable? For crying out loud.

Note: Im sure this has been posted before, but Im pissed as I mentioned it to my roommate and he is like dude, that is crazy. No wonder why that guy was soooo HUGE! I'm like you believe that? He's like, yeah, why would they lie?

It was all I could do from telling him he was fricken stupid.

Another thing i liked on the article was that it put his deadlifts at the end of all back exercises. Who does deadlifts last??!!! let alone 3 days a week!!!!

baahahahahahahah
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Although I do not anymore, for a long time I did deadlifts last and it worked very well for me. If you are a powerlifter and going for pulling your biggest numbers performing deads first is a must. For the purpose of building muscle performing them last is fine. I would only have to lift 20-25 lbs less doing it at the end not a big deal.

I also have heard arnold performing 20-25 sets for biceps alone training them for hours at a time. I don't know how much should be taken seriuosly. I think jonny hit the nail on the head.
 
When reading articles, I keep a couple of things in mind.
1) This guy is getting paid to do the story. Therefore, who wants to pay someone to say, I only do 9 sets per body part each training day? No one, cause anyone can do that. " But my intensity is through the roof", well I dont give a ****, cause I have yaked and bleed out the nose on occassion myself.

2) No person does the same routine enough that they can say this is what I do?

3) They are taking in more juice then you or I and they have someone cooking for them. That is a luxery that I myself can not afford.

Just do your best and that is all you can ask for. As for the other guys, that is there life. I love to lift, train, run, grapple but until someone pays me to do, I have to feed the family and that is all secondary.

Drew
 
all i know is that arnold is freaking huge and maybe i would try the same workout. no, maybe i wont. i think that arnold quite possiblly was superman.
 
I look at those magazines mostly for various lifting techniques that I may have forgot or not known. I stopped reading them for routines a few years ago when I noticed that Ronnie had about 3 types of workouts in 3 different mags of the same month.
 
BigVrunga said:
Remember that part in Pumping Iron where he was telling the story about how he told the newbie competitor to scream at the top of his lungs whenever he hit a pose?? Priceless...:)

BV
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I wonder why people look at me funny when I scream like that in the gym.......(I think it's from seeing myself in all those mirrors......)
 
Don't forget alot of these articles are pre-comp routines for cutting...1970's style cutting. For example Frank Zane used to do hundreds of sit-up variations when training for a contest. But off season not so much.
 
bioman said:
I think it's a little bit of both. He was known for 2 hour marathon lifting sessions and these are on video but those routines in the articles are pretty crazy. He definitely like to screw with people's minds..it's how he kept Farigno at bay by making him overtrain. LOL, poor Lou.
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Dave Draper and he did workout for 2-3 hours at times. I read that in DD's book. Zane and the Belgium bodybuilder forgot his name but he is in this picture at the bottom, would do 100's of situps conditioning for a show :blink: I also think it was just part of life, like a social gathering as well in the days of Golds Gym in cali. I could be wrong, but alot of it seemed that way.
 

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