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Thanks Stu & Ironman,
going to give low reps and sets a shot.

Hello, I have reached the point in my training where I don't want to gain any more lower body mass. Except for my calves (which can always be a bit bigger..), my glutes and thighs are quite large and I don't want to get them any larger. The problem is I love deadlifting and squatting for strength re...

Point 2. He references Arthur jones Nautilus/HIT program. OK fine, it will work. But Casey Viator was in a VERY deconditioned state when the "experiment" was done, and with a lot of food, he got a lot of his PREVIOUS size back rather quickly, probably though water retrntion, muscle memory or whatev...

This guy Tim Ferriss put on 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days while decreasing
his body fat without any drugs:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/20 ... n-4-weeks/

Does this seem possible to anyone?

I'm also upping the rep range toward 20 after a bit of reading on another site. 'Apparently' traps are pretty resistant to training and wont respond well to the low rep range like most muscles. The reasoning being they have to support your arms etc constantly anyway, so they need to be hammered. Ca...

Here's Charles Poliquin's explanation from T-Nation: "Implementation: (A) To begin, grasp two dumbbells and sit on the edge of a flat bench. Let your arms hang straight down, with your palms facing forward. You'll curl the dumbbells up, but with one slight variation: to prevent recruitment of the fo...

To expand on Stephen's reply, fatigue is also a sign of over-training.

What's your exercise program consist of?

Sorry, I just realized after reading my post how vague it was. I compromised it a couple of weeks ago while swimming and it started hurting today after bench pressing. I'm not currently seeing a doctor because with my experience it usually heals with a bit of time but I'm not sure if that's the best...

What's the best way to deal with a shoulder (most likely a rc) injury?

Heat? Ice? Stretching? Rest?

Thanks a lot for the input guys.

I'm just looking for the best way to bring up (what I think is) a lagging body part. I think that my triceps are holding back my pressing movements.

Thanks for the replies.

Stephen, I think the argument is with compound movements you can put a far greater stress on the muscles like Stu's suggestion of bench pressing from pins would allow more weight to be used than with an isolation exercise.

My understanding is that with pressing movements (bench and standing) your triceps are only involved in the top half of the movement (towards lock out). Is the same true for dips and pushups? If I wanted to target my triceps, would I want to focus on the movement closer to lock out and not use a ful...

hoosegow wrote:You can always have someone throw a couple of plates on your back.

You can also use a weighted vest or a weighted backpack (just throw a bunch of weight in the bag).

Thanks Stephen and Stu.

I'll keep doing my rear delt rows.

-Chris

OK, thanks Stephen. The reason I ask is I've recently switched my bent-over row to using a pronated grip and know that takes out the rear delts. I do however do lots of chinups and pullups with a variety of grips and wasn't sure if I should still do a rear delt specific exercise or if the pullups/ch...