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Originally Posted by ph0bia.
Almost NO ONE in my gym follows a full-body routine. All the big guys are on body-splits. It just makes me doubt the effectiveness of such programs.
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This is where things get confusing. Those big guys in the gym are doing some serious weight (hopefully
), probably somewhere around a 350 squat, 400 dead and upwards of 300+ on bench. When you've reached this point in your training (or when on gear) a split can be effective. But a split isn't effective until you're lifting some serious weight. Those numbers probably aren't even high enough for a split either, maybe even add 100lbs to everything.
A guy I go to school with has been training for 5 years, doing a split since day 1. I've been training for about 3yrs (doing full body for over 2 of those 3 yrs). Here's the tale of the tape:
Bench
Him: 290x3 Me: 275x1
Squat
Him: 155x3 Me: 285x5
Deadlift
Him: 225x3 Me:365x3
He spent all his time doing 4x10-12 for about 4-5 exercises per muscle (even bi's and tri's).
SO which program wins?
(He's on NO Xplode BTW
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ps. Shit I knew someone else was doing Ripp's program but I couldn't find the journal!