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do you drink any tea? What kind of tea would be good for bodybuilders? Trough a day when i am in work i dont need coffein and trying to avoid green tea and i am looking to some tea to calm down my nervous system. Can you recommend something?
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I’m a 52-year-old post menopausal woman. Currently dieting for a competition in mid June (and have been since January – started then to give myself plenty of time). Previously I would maintain my weight at 2,000 calories a day and about an hour of resistance training a day. When it came time for competition prep in the past, I would go down to about 1,500 and just add in a few cardio sessions a week and maybe go down to about 1,350 near the very end. This time I find that I am actually maintaining at 1,500 calories a day and have cut down to 1,350 calories a day and cardio for 20 minutes almost every day and the weight is coming off very S-L-O-W-L-Y – like half a pound a week if that. I still have 12 weeks to go and need to lose 15 pounds. Should I drop to 1,200 calories a day, which is lower than what my BMR SHOULD be, or add more cardio, or both? Planning on reverse dieting after this to try to ramp my metabolism back up.
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I’m a big fan of your “best exercises for this muscle group” video series on YouTube. Could you provide us with a similar series? Maybe a top 2 for each muscle group, one for loading in a shortened position, and one for loading in a lengthened position?
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I suffer with the typical “bodybuilder” problems in terms of wanting to be a big as humanly possible, while also wanting to be as lean as humanly possible. What do you think of a 6-week bulk at +10%, followed by a 4 week strength program at maintenance kCals, then followed by a 6-week cut at -10%? Would it be contradictory? Would I just be countering myself over time?
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I have a question about full body works vs split can you explain the difference in the 2.
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This is a follow up to your answer about whether training to failure is appropriate for everyone. I should have used my words more carefully, I know you don’t say that everyone has to train to failure always. And I understand that training to failure would be appropriate when life circumstances, diet, recovery, stress, and hormonal balance are where they should be. Maybe with what I have going on training to failure isn’t appropriate for me at this time. A question that you didn’t get to answer last time was:
If someone has elected to avoid training to complete failure, would this somewhat defeat the purpose of using accommodating resistance curves??
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6 workout planer just give push, pull, legs, what about some powerbulding routines? that will be AWESOME!!!
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i had a question about volume, when i go for higher volume, I’m able to sleep better and when I’m going for lower volume, my sleep is not deep is. There any connection?
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new to the site and searching around at a good pace, but definitely haven’t covered the whole thing so i apologize profusely if this has been covered previously! when you are really close to contest and presumably in a heavy calorie deficit and at a super low bodyfat, do you recommend any changes in volume or still heavy weight for 2 sets of 5/6-10/12? i know you log and track the main output movements and try to progress them, in those final workouts are you still pushing for rep/tempo/form/weight pr’s or picking a set # and just going for stimulus?
