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Originally posted by [Labret]:
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Lab, when I used to be working my heaviest, I too would go my own way with my training style. A lot of guys will tell you to combine chest & triceps, back and biceps (the Mike Mentzer way), as opposed to what I find works best, that being to train two totally different muscle groups together. I do Chest & back one day, and shoulders and arms the next. The reason for this is because once you work your chest to failure, you can't give your triceps a proper workout and you can actually end up overworking the secondary group. That type of workout is only good when you have a certain muscle group that is lagging and needs extra work, and there again you have to watch out for overworking.
What type of workout do you do? For reps, again, only after I've been training lightly for a few months to get back into it, once I'm back up to full swing I like to do about 3-4 different movements per muscle group. In each movement I'll usually do 3 to 4 sets, the first set is higher reps, the last set is only 2-4 reps and higher weight. From time to time I might try a single rep at the end with a slightly higher weight, but nothing that will risk injury. I guess that's more of an ego thing.  (wanting to know how much you can do etc)
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Thats a tough one. I try like hell to maintain a strict way of doing certain exercises on the right days etc etc etc.
Its hard, certain parts just suck to work. For instance I hate working "back"... really hate it. So I tend to neglect it more than I should. I am obsessed with shoulders and chest. I want trapz that make my neck disappear. So I tend to work those areas more. And like you said, doing certain parts always works other parts. Like the way I do my chest, always makes my triceps and shoulder burn. So I figure fuck it... its usually a chest / shoulder split, which certain shoulder exercises indirectly work the back. Then next time I have to do bicep / back split which I hate, cause I hate back.. so I indirectly neglect biceps... so have to compensate. Damn, so many variables that make my lifting schedule suck sometimes. This job doesn't help either when you have some troubles and cant make it to the gym for a week so no matter what muscle you work next time, its gonna be sore as hell, so now your schedule is out of whack. I have to take it day by day almost. I am fortunate enough to have a smith machine and the typical freeweight set so I can hit them, but I love some of the cable machines at the gym cause the really let you target. I am ranting. And then diet plays the most important role and you know what sitting in front of a computer for 12 hours a day will do to that. So to answer your question... I have no set schedule, too hard to maintain. I just lift hit and take it day by day.
Usually 2 to 3 exercises per muscle, mixing them up. Weight that is 6 to 8 reps to positive failure.
I dont know if any of what I said just made sense. Im not gonna proofread it either.
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I finish off the heavy workout with like 3 sets of 50-100 crunches and more stretching. The warmup is 20 minutes on the stationary cycle and stretching.
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Crunches, the devils exercise.
I dont do any cardio cause I am too paranoid of muscle loss. I should however.