"New" Astroboy trailer 2003 series

[Guest Monday Night Jericho]

Hey WP, how's it going.

 

This is off-topic, but I was wondering if you benched with a bar or with dumb-bells.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Hey WP, how's it going.

 

This is off-topic, but I was wondering if you benched with a bar or with dumb-bells.

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I'm doing okay overall. Thanks for asking.

 

 

It's on topic.

 

 

 

I mostly use a barbell though it's not completely by choice. The gym and the only gym I can go to right now that isn't hours away has the dumbells too big for their actual weight which makes them awkard. And get this -- they don't even have an inclinebenchpress to work with. Just a flat bench. The only way you can work incline is to use a moveable bench over to the smith machine and go from there which is something I never do because I hate the one way motion with a smith machine and often find it injury producing. This is what millions of dollars and new fancy equipment bring you these days. We got TVs! Yay! Oh well, at least we got lots of females.

 

All right, I'm the one going off topic. I have used the dumbells before and generally like them. Their advantage for a lot of people is that they're less hard on the shoulders since you can fool around some and maybe find a motion that isn't hard for them. Some people who have trouble with the barbell can get away with the dumbells. The big disadvantage is posistioning them up to get started.

 

Do you work your rotator cuffs any? They say that's the muscle that gets weak after you've increased your bench press strentgh. It becomes a weak link. I try to take care of them a little bit. No military presses behind the neck or upright rows for me anymore and definitely no working out on too hard surfaces. WP "isn't young" anymore!

 

Currently, I've been trying to increase by bench by very small jumps (I am a hardgainer) so the barbell has been a benifit there. With the dumbells you often have to make a jump that is just not praticable if you're trying to get the same amount of reps.

 

 

I think I'm going to open up my blog here. I've been writing down my workouts on the computer for awhile now. I often have to adjust them because of the physical labour I do sometimes. I'm going to have to get a different job.

 

 

Off topic slightly but since this is a wrestling forum I thought I'd mention a scary bit I read rescently. Bob Armstrong or I think it was Bob was doing pullovers on a bench when the bench gave away underneath him. The weight ended up coming down and completely taking off his nose! He than had $30,000 plastic surgery or something.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Thought I'd post one of the most famous bodybuilding pictures ever!

 

 

Anybody over a certain age knows this ad by heart. People often ask what the meaning of life truly is. Well, here it is:

 

 

 

 

 

WP's warning -- There are more effective training techniques than this.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Hey MondayNightJericho

 

 

 

Here are a couple of pictures from that scene you missed at the beginning of the series

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Monday Night Jericho]

I mostly use a barbell though it's not completely by choice. The gym and the only gym I can go to right now that isn't hours away has the dumbells too big for their actual weight which makes them awkard. And get this -- they don't even have an inclinebenchpress to work with. Just a flat bench. The only way you can work incline is to use a moveable bench over to the smith machine and go from there which is something I never do because I hate the one way motion with a smith machine and often find it injury producing. This is what millions of dollars and new fancy equipment bring you these days. We got TVs! Yay! Oh well, at least we got lots of females.

 

Yeah, most gyms suck as they panda to people who go their for social banter. Sitting on a bike for about 40 minutes reading a magazine seems uttlerly pointless to me. Also I don't understand people who talk *whilst they're doing weights*.

 

All right, I'm the one going off topic. I have used the dumbells before and generally like them. Their advantage for a lot of people is that they're less hard on the shoulders since you can fool around some and maybe find a motion that isn't hard for them. Some people who have trouble with the barbell can get away with the dumbells. The big disadvantage is posistioning them up to get started.

 

Do you work your rotator cuffs any? They say that's the muscle that gets weak after you've increased your bench press strentgh. It becomes a weak link. I try to take care of them a little bit. No military presses behind the neck or upright rows for me anymore and definitely no working out on too hard surfaces. WP "isn't young" anymore!

 

Currently, I've been trying to increase by bench by very small jumps (I am a hardgainer) so the barbell has been a benifit there. With the dumbells you often have to make a jump that is just not praticable if you're trying to get the same amount of reps.

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to reply - it's much appriciated. Personally I haven't been lifting for three weeks due to a wrist injury. Instead just been increasing my cardio a lot, and also getting back into 'bridging' (I found it really hard after an absence). When I am lifting, yes, I do work my rotary cuffs. I don't put a huge emphasis on them though; usually just a couple of sets - if that - at the end of a workout.

 

 

I think I'm going to open up my blog here. I've been writing down my workouts on the computer for awhile now. I often have to adjust them because of the physical labour I do sometimes. I'm going to have to get a different job.

 

If you do, then I'd definitely read it. Concerning your workouts: how many reps and sets do you do per session and how many times do you lift per week?

 

Off topic slightly but since this is a wrestling forum I thought I'd mention a scary bit I read rescently. Bob Armstrong or I think it was Bob was doing pullovers on a bench when the bench gave away underneath him. The weight ended up coming down and completely taking off his nose! He than had $30,000 plastic surgery or something.

 

Jesus Christ... that's insane! I don't suppose there are any pictures of this?

[Guest wildpegasus]

I mostly use a barbell though it's not completely by choice. The gym and the only gym I can go to right now that isn't hours away has the dumbells too big for their actual weight which makes them awkard. And get this -- they don't even have an inclinebenchpress to work with. Just a flat bench. The only way you can work incline is to use a moveable bench over to the smith machine and go from there which is something I never do because I hate the one way motion with a smith machine and often find it injury producing. This is what millions of dollars and new fancy equipment bring you these days. We got TVs! Yay! Oh well, at least we got lots of females.

 

Yeah, most gyms suck as they panda to people who go their for social banter. Sitting on a bike for about 40 minutes reading a magazine seems uttlerly pointless to me. Also I don't understand people who talk *whilst they're doing weights*.

 

All right, I'm the one going off topic. I have used the dumbells before and generally like them. Their advantage for a lot of people is that they're less hard on the shoulders since you can fool around some and maybe find a motion that isn't hard for them. Some people who have trouble with the barbell can get away with the dumbells. The big disadvantage is posistioning them up to get started.

 

Do you work your rotator cuffs any? They say that's the muscle that gets weak after you've increased your bench press strentgh. It becomes a weak link. I try to take care of them a little bit. No military presses behind the neck or upright rows for me anymore and definitely no working out on too hard surfaces. WP "isn't young" anymore!

 

Currently, I've been trying to increase by bench by very small jumps (I am a hardgainer) so the barbell has been a benifit there. With the dumbells you often have to make a jump that is just not praticable if you're trying to get the same amount of reps.

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to reply - it's much appriciated. Personally I haven't been lifting for three weeks due to a wrist injury. Instead just been increasing my cardio a lot, and also getting back into 'bridging' (I found it really hard after an absence). When I am lifting, yes, I do work my rotary cuffs. I don't put a huge emphasis on them though; usually just a couple of sets - if that - at the end of a workout.

 

 

I think I'm going to open up my blog here. I've been writing down my workouts on the computer for awhile now. I often have to adjust them because of the physical labour I do sometimes. I'm going to have to get a different job.

 

If you do, then I'd definitely read it. Concerning your workouts: how many reps and sets do you do per session and how many times do you lift per week?

 

Off topic slightly but since this is a wrestling forum I thought I'd mention a scary bit I read rescently. Bob Armstrong or I think it was Bob was doing pullovers on a bench when the bench gave away underneath him. The weight ended up coming down and completely taking off his nose! He than had $30,000 plastic surgery or something.

 

Jesus Christ... that's insane! I don't suppose there are any pictures of this?

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-- I don't mind the talking as long as it's minimal or after a workout is done. Or of course if you're talking to a nice lady. Yeah, you definitely don't want too much talking though. I think the only time ever that I really let talking interfere with my workout was when I was talking to my highschool crush a couple of days and even that it wasn't really interference. Tough girl. She was there for over 2 hours and it was 36 or 37 degrees, humid as anything and there was no airconditioning in the gym. Not reccomended by the way as that's a pretty dangerous thing to do.

 

-- My wrists hurt a tiny bit and it's because of the way I was holding shears for awhile last year. The movement just caught up to me. About a year ago I had a lot of pain in my wrist from a few falls I had on some ice where I broke my fall with my wrists. I would try to bend it backwards but "couldn't" because it was in considerable pain. Than one day I was working in the woods and I asked someone who was training in Akido to show me some stuff. Well he took my injured wrist (I wasn't expecting that) and completely bent it backwards. It hurt like anything but you know what? It actually made it feel better and today I have no signs of that injury at all.

That reminds me dumbells can also be better for your wrists than a barbell.

 

 

Training history and what I've learnt from it -- I think I started training when I was 13 years old or so. Back than I had no idea at all on what I was doing. My routine consisted of pushups, chinups and situps. I'd purposely watch TV and everytime 3 commercials came on I'd do 30 pushups. Often I'd do 300 or 400 of them which was tough. Same deal with situps. Chinups I would do 7 or 8 sets (or 6o to 70 combined chins) That worked to a point but I got stuck at about 32 pushups for a set I think. My chinups never got by a certain point either. Situps were hard on the back but they did develop my abs and I loved seeing my body transform. I was real skinny at the time and I don't think I've ever had visible abs like that again because my body fat percentage is higher now.

 

After that I bought my own weight bench, started doing research and began training like Franco Colombu and Arnold. Tons of sets. I now got on to the idea of taking a day or two rest inbetween workouts and it worked some but only to a point. Progress was very slow and sometimes even went backwards which was frustrating. I remember it taking 3 or 4 months just to increase the bench from 100lbs for 9 reps or so to 105lbs for 9 reps.

 

At the end of highschool I started to hear about Dorian Yates method of training. That was like 3 intense sets to failure per bodypart or something. Than when I was talking in class a buddy showed me the ways of the very brief but intense training methods and how they were superior than the typical Arnold like routines. Well, I tried it and it worked. The gains were much quicker than I ever experienced before which made me pretty happy. However they too stopped after awhile but at least I was stronger now. A difficult part of this was just training your mind to think "Less is more"

 

I have heard the theory about how a short period of overtraining followed by period of the opposite in very good for gains. There could be some merit to that.

 

Anyway, I stayed with the intense but short training for quite a long time. Years actually except for the time I was out for a year with a very bad arm injury. I was spinning my wheels going nowhere just maintaining my muscle really. I didn't really know what else I could do.

 

Now you have to remember I'm not an easy gainer. I don't recover well and am more of an ectomorph so I gotta be careful on how I train.

 

So I had to accomodate once again and really this is something I'd wish I'd done earlier. Instead of taking my sets to failure I changed things up and started fooling around with the routines from the "Brawn" book.

 

I tried a couple of different with good and not so good success. My arms seemed to be more receptive than my other bodyparts which I found kind of wierd. Anyway after quite a bit of time I found something that's working for me. Basically I took a weight that I could do 12 reps with. Than I'd add just a tiny, tiny bit of weight and go back down to 8 reps. Next week I'd hit 9, than 10, than 11 and than if everything goes right 12 reps. Repeat once again with just a tiny bit of extra weight. Of course I make sure to warm up throughly with the weights themselves.

 

I hit a roadblock here too but have been taking Phoshagen HP Creatine and it seems to be helping me get over hills. I've never had any success with creatine in the past but here in this routine it's giving that extra push I need.

 

I usually train 3 to 4 times a week. SOmetimes it depens on how tired I am from work.

 

 

Words of wisdom for anybody reading this -- Don't train on cement or other very hard surfaces. Your joints will thank you. You may be young and not feel it at first like I did but trust me it catches up to you over time.

[Guest Monday Night Jericho]

That was an interesting read, WP. I'll post a reply tomorrow; gotta get some sleep!

[Guest wildpegasus]

That was an interesting read, WP. I'll post a reply tomorrow; gotta get some sleep!

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Let those muscles grow. I'm gonna post a few more pictures in the meantime because I'm about to get to some of the most breathtaking pictures from the Astroboy series. Still a little ways to go yet until we get to them though

 

 

Enjoy these in the meantime everyone!

 

 

 

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