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Originally Posted by austrailia21

id sujest if ur worried about your knees. why dont you get a personal trainer to train you, that way they can give you a solid analisis of how far to push and what your ready for.
btw your first question was funny . the one about working upper body and getting gains without working lower body, it funny cause 80% of the guys in my gym dont work lower body cause ' they dont want there legs to be huge like those body builders' hahaha

Originally Posted by gong

nah I've got a simple home gym that's good enough for now. Plus I don't have money to spend on a personal trainer, nor is it my scene.

Yeah I know heaps of guys only train upper body, but I think training the legs with the big movements like squats and dead lifts and so on is beneficial for the whole body.

Originally Posted by austrailia21

read the tread fom 0311 (why arnt i growing )

Originally Posted by Matt Reynolds

5) Training to near muscular failure has shown to induce identical hypertrophy gains than training to all out muscular failure. The reason you guys can’t train a muscle more than once per week is because you are destroying it when you do train it. Learn to hit or miss that last rep and then call it done. Don’t do ridiculous amounts of forced reps, negatives, etc. until you literally can’t move the muscle. Take it to near failure and then your muscles will recover enough so that you can train them again in 3-4 days.

Understand that there is a huge difference in training to near failure and not training hard. I would never advocate to not train hard. Actually, quite the opposite – try to squat for 5 sets of 5 reps using only 10lbs less than your five rep max. That’s absolutely brutal. But when you get done, don’t go to the leg press machine and keep pounding out sets and stripping off weight until you literal can’t do a single leg press with only the sled. That’s absurd, and you can’t recover from it in 3 days.