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what are your thoughts on using the slingshot (bench band accessory. It wraps around your arms and stretches across the chest on the eccentric, completely slack at lockout) to provide accomodating resistance for close grip presses and dips? Or even tight elbow sleeves?
I fell like it could be a lot easier to set up if you don’t have access to chains?
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Your training programme on the programme builder (<2years training) is a push/pull/lower split, however, some others in the industry, like Jordan Peters, advocate a full body split in your early lifting career – why do you think a push/pull/lower is better?
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Are the off days complete rest or do you still do cardio for them?
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Your upper session on the site with Dave is structured in a relatively higher volume than most other sessions on here. Would you generally structure upper body sessions in this manner or is this simply person specific?
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Have 2 Q’s
1. Taking a while off of training legs, they’re pretty well built. I still do calves(weak) and prowler work. Is there an ideal split for the men’s physique look?
2. Undulation of working set rep counts? For example I like the 1 top set and 1 or 2 drop off sets to “failure” but is there a way of doing it so 1 day, you do a 5-8 rep top and 8-12 rep backoff on all exercises to “failure”. and 1 day 10-12 top and 15+ backoff to fail? or what about 1 day to failure 5-8 top 8-12 backoff and 1 day 12-15 top and 20ish backoff sub(2-3 reps shy of failure. – what is a better option for a good balance between stimulus and recovery?
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I’m 5′ 7″ 175 at 17% BF. I look pretty good for that much BF, but I’m eating way below my recommended TDEE and am not losing fat. Am I not eating enough? I am very consistent with my meals and training, but can’t seem to recommend my body from this point.
im also trying to put more muscle on, but wanted to know if you thought I should be cutting to a lower BF first.
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Your unfockers for hips and knees have worked wonders along with changing foot positions. Do you have a video for lower back?
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Would like to hear your opinion on what I should do next. Im 5’9 height and at this point (while cutting) I weight around 150 pounds. I still have some fat in the back and at lower abdominals, but definitely not too much as I can somewhat see my lower abs… At this point I’m not sure if I should keep leaning out or just start slow bulking ( with cardio) for 4-5 months and then try to cut bf again. My training experience is 3,5 years, the main goal is to build as much muscle as possible.
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The orange band you use on the reverse band smith, if you were to rate it on level of strength from 1-4 (1=weakest, 4=strongest) what would it be?
In Australia we’ve generally got 4 generic types of bands: red, black, purple and green. Ordered in level of strength. Would this be more of a black or a purple band?
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How would I go about improving my wrist flexibility so that I can comfortably perform the front squat with an Olympic style grip.
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I am on a waiting list for a shoulder surgery, I am able to train but I have to be careful and not push to much weight. whats your advice on a split to follow until then that wouldn’t put to much pressure on me would push/pull/legs work my arms are lagging and shoulders are a strong point, so I can lay off them for a while. whats your advice please…
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I’ll drop a few, feel free to pick the least dumb one(s) ?
1.) What do you think are the implications of rest periods?
The traditional bodybuilder style was shorter rest periods, which seemed to have worked fine for some of the best physiques out there. On the other hand there is a recent trend to shoot for longer rest periods to optimize performance in subsequent sets. I could see it working out in both ways since from a muscle-specific standpoint, the absolute performance shouldnt matter as much as the peripheral fatigue/tension that the muscle experiences. Your thoughts?
2.) hip-hinge movements for hamstrings?
I noticed that in your leg workouts/hamstring exercise directory, there is little to no hip-hinge movements, mainly leg-curl variations. Is there any specific reason for this?
3.) How valuable do you think overhead press variations are for the side delts? Or ate they mainly just a front delt stimulator?
4.) What are your thoughts on the ‘lat prayer’, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_szNTI5nE)
A straight arm pulldown variation, all the way from the fully shortened to the fully lengthened position, while using a little bit of body momentum?
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Could you explain the pros / cons of using knee / elbow sleeves please?
