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Originally Posted by Anuj
oh, and 0311 also told me that i should start off with a moderate weight so as to build a stronger base to build on... i think i'll do 70% of my 1 RM for tomorrow...
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Good.
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Originally Posted by Anuj
i look at myself in the mirror and see how much weight i've lost and how my arms have shrunken coz of my illness and i cant help but say: man... i think i was better of with TBT..
but, now that u mention it: OVT is much much better than TBT... thanks for the reality check kane  |
Jeez. I have to wonder about some of this. Look, I know all about being sick and how it affects you. More than I'd like to talk about. I just came off another debilatating bout with my sarcoidosis. I was out for well over a month, in a completely weakened condition, getting one cold after another.
That's a long time, but I didn't drop a pound. I lost tiny bits on the tape measure, but not enough to look different in the mirror or to really register on the scale. Hell, I'm already looking better now after just two weeks in. I think you know what went wrong without me telling you: you didn't keep up your diet.
Anyway, any routine that is working well for you is a good routine. Frankly, I hate split routines. I like a full-body or at least upper/lower split. But when a split is doing the job, then a split is good. I'm doing pendulum and It's going great, but I'm not going to tell you it's better than this or that and become the "great pendulum defender". I'll be moving on soon enough, but not until I've exhausted any gains I can get from it.
There is no best program. ANY program that claims to be the ultimate one is full of shit. That's why everyone is making fun of the T-Nation articles. Every month here comes a program that is the greatest thing since sliced bread...
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Originally Posted by Anuj
i know your gonna say that if there's no safety bar how do i know that i'm doing my squat A2G?
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Huh? I work out at home. I have a squat rack with safety bars. The bars are there to catch the weight if I fail, nothing more. I know I am going A2G when the back of my thighs are glued to my calves and I can't possibly go any lower (believe me I've tried). I set the bars so that they are just barely below the lowest level of the bar.