| TBH,theres nothing new there at all,the old skool bodybuilders of the 30`s 40`s etc already knew about cycling/periodization call it what you will to keep your muscles growing and full at all times,they trained themselves instinctively to know these little quirks that the body would throw at them, when a routine needed changing or wasnt working,they used to call it the innate animal wisdom,listen to yoyr body and it will tell you everything you need to know.
The reason all this fell out of favour was pure and simple the introduction of steroids and the fact that you could virtualy do any routine you wanted and still grow,so for a vast majority of people correct training and diet took a backseat and drugs came to the forefront,and that still applies today,but ti is getting slightly better but not much.
Magazines and so called gurus throw these ideas out all the time to make it look like they are at the fore front of the game,when in fact most have probably come across an obscure article in an old magazine and re-hashed it to fit into todays way of thinking and then they take all the credit for it.
I have in my shed about 200-300 magazines and books some going back as far as 1912(this one gave me the perfect way to do tricep kickbacks)and you see all the same things cropping up every 10-20yrs as they are re-discovered.
The main reason,imo,why most bbing ideas have stayed stale is the weiders pure and simple,they invented f@#k all when it came to training methods,the pre exhaust theory was robert kennedy`s of musclemag,brain child,he wrote to weider to ask his opinion(bad mistake)next thing he knows its in all the weider mags as the lastest scientific breakthrough,weider never trained anybody he sent them all to vince gironda,arnold,frank zane,larry scott to name a few,weider got rich vince died a poor man.
Some ideas have been backe up scientificaly just take german volume training,that surfaced I think in the 60`s through german scientists looking for the perfect way to build tissue in the shortest possible time and keep injuries down,and it works better than anything I know of for blasting through sticking points.
Take breathing squats(:confused: )they are nothing short of phenonimal(sic)for packing on the pounds in a short amount of time for hard gainers,and the list is endless. |