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luvsredbeaver · 12-02-2003, 12:54 PM

I think a lot depends on what your goals are. When it comes to resistance training (i.e. weight lifting) your goal should either be size (mass) or strength. It doesn;t look like you are super setting, and since I don;t know how much wieght you are using on the exercises you have listed, my guess is you are striving more for strrength than size or cuts.

I'm 5 ft 10 and my wieght varies from 230 to 245 depending on what training I am doing. I realized long ago that I would never look like Arnold without thousands of dollars worth of steriods each year, so I train for strength and not to look like a body builder. My max on the bench right now is 385, but I have done 415 when I was taking trembelone acetate (bull hormone, don't do it any more). Right now my body fat is at about 21%, so I could stand to lose about 10 to 20 pounds or so.

Without trying to analyze your workout routine, I would just make a general statment that to move to the next level you should increase the INTENSITY of your workouts. Intensity of a workout is as much a function of time as it is the amount of wieght or the number of reps you are doing. If you took the same exercises and reps that you have listed and cut the amount of time you take to do them by a third or more you will see the impact of increased intensity.

When I want to make a jump, I shorten my workout time, pick no more than three exersizes per body part, increase the weight to where I have to reduce the number of reps comapred to before the wieght increase, but still don't sacrifice good form just to lift heavier weight (this will prevent injuries). ALWAYS do the exercise to failure. if youcan pump out 15 reps... add wieght till you can do no more than 10. I personally drop set each exersice while adding weight betwen each set - 12 reps add wt, 10 reps add wt, 8 reps add wt, 6 reps, don't add weight and do as many reps as I can to failure, the I return to the starting wight and do 12 reps again. (This is a slight modification from the workout in the BODY FOR LIFE book.) I'm usually pretty damn sore the 2nd day after my workout, but that is a good thing. I aslo don't workout any more than 4 days a week, resting one day between workouts (maybe some cardio on the off weight days).

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luvsredbeaver Insane Location: All up in it...	I think a lot depends on what your goals are. When it comes to resistance training (i.e. weight lifting) your goal should either be size (mass) or strength. It doesn;t look like you are super setting, and since I don;t know how much wieght you are using on the exercises you have listed, my guess is you are striving more for strrength than size or cuts. I'm 5 ft 10 and my wieght varies from 230 to 245 depending on what training I am doing. I realized long ago that I would never look like Arnold without thousands of dollars worth of steriods each year, so I train for strength and not to look like a body builder. My max on the bench right now is 385, but I have done 415 when I was taking trembelone acetate (bull hormone, don't do it any more). Right now my body fat is at about 21%, so I could stand to lose about 10 to 20 pounds or so. Without trying to analyze your workout routine, I would just make a general statment that to move to the next level you should increase the INTENSITY of your workouts. Intensity of a workout is as much a function of time as it is the amount of wieght or the number of reps you are doing. If you took the same exercises and reps that you have listed and cut the amount of time you take to do them by a third or more you will see the impact of increased intensity. When I want to make a jump, I shorten my workout time, pick no more than three exersizes per body part, increase the weight to where I have to reduce the number of reps comapred to before the wieght increase, but still don't sacrifice good form just to lift heavier weight (this will prevent injuries). ALWAYS do the exercise to failure. if youcan pump out 15 reps... add wieght till you can do no more than 10. I personally drop set each exersice while adding weight betwen each set - 12 reps add wt, 10 reps add wt, 8 reps add wt, 6 reps, don't add weight and do as many reps as I can to failure, the I return to the starting wight and do 12 reps again. (This is a slight modification from the workout in the BODY FOR LIFE book.) I'm usually pretty damn sore the 2nd day after my workout, but that is a good thing. I aslo don't workout any more than 4 days a week, resting one day between workouts (maybe some cardio on the off weight days).