You can say what you want, I shared my own exp. Thats why I said what got ME over the hump. When you work your muscles as hard as I did you will need a week for proper recovery and there is nothing wrong with the sets listed. 8 sets is not too many come on now. Optimum whey is the best bang for the buck thats why I listed it and it is excellent for lean muscle gain. I didnt touch on natural protein because most people know what foods have proper proteins for gaining size and strength.
By the way there Mr. Olympia I was training with an Amatuer bodybuilder that introduced me to this workout which gave me the gains I was looking for. But I guess he is wrong as well? My other partner had similar gains that I did doing this so there must be something to it.
Really a bodybuilders lifting schedule? Thats funny. A program thats made for someone who is genetically gifted and possibly uses hormones or developed by someone who uses gear to enhance their gains. I can post copies of Ronnie Coleman's and Arnold's routines as well. Does that make the routines good, simply because someone who is big developed them?
...or does that change the fact that Arnold has a hole in his heart and needs to go to a doctor daily? or the fact that Ronnie's flexibility and mobility is drastically reduced, but they saw results, correct?
Listen, there's a right way and a wrong way to go about things. Just because something suffices for awhile doesn't mean that its the right thing.
Who was the person that hurt their wrist and couldn't continue to lift for a month? Was that myself or was that yourself? I believe I'm the healthy, injury free person here and have had my own experiences in the past when I didn't have the proper information to learn from, I provided you with that information here tonight and what do you do - you scouff at it. Congratulations. This is why I generally don't post this sort of information here because it falls on deaf ears.
By the way, I was able to help someone like Slammed over the internet without ever meeting him. I didn't need to sit there in person and train him, but by heeding my advice he was able to benefit.
Also, my training partner is more than likely going to be showing at an Amateur bodybuilding contest down at the Jersey shore this summer and will probably be entering powerlifting events as well. But in the end, he still learns new things everyday by being open minded and listening. Thats probably why he got to the point he did, so quickly, naturally. What happened when he didn't listen? He was out of the game for 3months after the surgery on his hernia. You know what he told me on Friday in the gym after complaining for so long about how he couldn't work out? "I really think those 3months were good for me and helped me heal, I feel good, again, now. Its like a new start."
Would you like to guess who was telling him that he was overdoing it for months? Yeah, thats this guy right here.
This wasn't made to be a dick measuring contest. I knocked your routine because its a poorly constructed routine thats not really good at any one particular aspect of lifting and can lead to severe injury. 8 sets of benching is a lot. I'm not sure if you do any other pec exercises, but 8 sets taken to complete failure is ludacris and WILL lead to overtraining. Remember, I've been there and I've done that. Take what you will from this and if you benefit, I'm glad.
Gains are also very specific to the person they're made by, there's huge gains to be made when you begin training by doing basically anything. They're called "newbie gains" by many, and its understood that these are going to be the first and most drastic gains you make naturally. Doing your workout for a week isn't going to make you wither and break, but do it for three months or a year and you'll most likely wind up injured and seeing very little gains.