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Originally Posted by Nine Pack  A pre contest journal from me would be very boring I suspect. I set the macros, hit the cardio & every day is identical, apart from me becoming more Zombie like as the weeks pass. James' journals are far more interesting as he maintains brain function right the way through whereas my brain dribbles out my ears after about six weeks! My gym journal is about to get intersting though...
James, further to our discussions this is what I think IMHO you need to concentrate on to iron out the symmetry:
Back in general
Hamstrings (which seem to be growing so let's keep it that way)
Chest
That's it as far as I can see. Your delts are like cannonballs, your arms should have their own postcode & your quads are well proportioned (maybe a tiny bit more in the adductor region, Staffy is the gifted one there though). You could do a restricted split on those on an eod schedule & work in two distinctly different back workouts & rotate them (one heavy rowing session & one pulldown & chins etc). Chest is not so easy to vary but I strongly advise some deep tissue work on the pecs by an experienced sports masseur to stretch the fascia out & allow more growth. It'll be painful, but knowing you it'll not even be an issue.
This split would see each of the workouts being hit every sixth /seventh day. Something like this perhaps:
Day 1) Heavy Rowing Back session
Day 2) Rest
Day 3) Chest
Day 4) Rest
day 5) Hams & lower back (deads)
Day 6) Rest
Day 7) Back (pulldowns & chins)
Day 8) Rest
Day 9) Rest
Day 10) If recovered, repeat cycle or take another days rest & begin again.
Now this may seem a little against the grain to what I normally advocate, but factor in that the other bodyparts are not using up any recuperative energy or nutrients & these trained bodyparts will recover & adapt to the increased workload. If you tried this frequency whilst still hitting the entire body, you'd burn out rapidly, but not this way. |
Hi Paul,
Thanks for taking the time to do that but what you also have to understand is that I now have a training partner.
As a BBer I have to weigh up the benefits of doing your split on my own against the benefit of having a hard working and motivating training partner.
Your split would mean losing the very one thing that I feel is important to me and I'd be back training like a **** on my own.
The benefits of training with Matt are huge and I WILL NOT give that up. It may not be in your opinion PERFECT for me in terms of my physique but it is infinately better than training on my own as I have done for the last 5 years. Plus he's a good friend too and has gone out of his way to assist me and show me a different way of training that I personally think WILL show a better James at the British.
The world is not perfect and nor am I but my world at the moment is about as perfect as it will get and I dont want to lose that.
I am sure you understand my stance here.
J