Being a program hopper unappreciation thread

[semtex]

man I just read this article
http://mountaindogdiet.com/novice/workouts-novice/6-ways-optimize-training-program/

And realized I'm a program hopper for sure :aiscrust:

I recall fall of 2013 I was on the periodization bandwagon, that fell apart. Then I was on it again last summer, wandered off again. I swear fo god I bet if I would have just stuck to the periodization training back in damn 2013 I'd look better. Instead I been stalling out and feelin like dooky :aiscrust:

I know some of u can relate especially @GinaThatAintNoDamnPuppy! :barkley:

Rant over

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

U know whats funny, last year I was pretty much on one program and actually made decent gains. I had to experiment a lot to figure out what worked for me but now I pretty much know, at least on the building muscle side. On the cutting side Im skrugglin cuh

 

[Hybrinetics]

I been doing the same 4 day split for 6 months shyt seem to be working well for me. im still weak compared to y'all but steady progress putting on mass

 

[USSInsiders]

I been doing the same 4 day split for 6 months shyt seem to be working well for me. im still weak compared to y'all but steady progress putting on mass

leave humanity behind and join full body workout gang breh

 

[Serious]

leave humanity behind and join full body workout gang breh

Heavy weight, low reps

 

[USSInsiders]

Heavy weight, low reps

You already know. all compound exercises gang

 

[Serious]

You already know. all compound exercises gang

Started doing compound lifts a few years ago and never looked back

 

[USSInsiders]

Started doing compound lifts a few years ago and never looked back

Yep. First seriously got into actually taking lifting serious about two years ago. For years I was training like a complete fukking retard, then again I was young. Was overweight and did nothing but fukk around in the gym doing random shyt, never squatted or deadlifted, never did pull-ups.

As of now, I've pretty much abandoned all of my isolation exercises.

All I do: bench, barbell ohp, weighted chins/chins, weighted dips/dips, deads, squat.

2-3 times a week, deload when I feel exhausted.

Wish I trained like this when I was still bulking.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

IDK breh iso moves put critical meat on my arms

Im a believer

 

[Point Blank]

I've been program hopping as well. Can't really find any good ones other than a few on BB.com. I guess I'm not looking hard enough.

 

[Hybrinetics]

leave humanity behind and join full body workout gang breh

I keep hearing this. Imma start next week upping working everything out twice a week, I dunno bout that full body though; what does a your schedule look like for a day of lifting?

 

[Serious]

IDK breh iso moves put critical meat on my arms

Im a believer

You can do both. I do my compound lifts, then I superset, bicep curls and tricep pull downs. My arms are pretty meaty now.

I keep hearing this. Imma start next week upping working everything out twice a week, I dunno bout that full body though; what does a your schedule look like for a day of lifting?

Today: Squat >>> power clean >>> barbell rows >>>> tricep pull downs supersetted with bicep curls >>>>> pull ups, super setted with tricep dips....


And my current schedule is usually tuesday, thursday and saturday / sunday, depending on if I feel working out on the weekend or not....

 

[USSInsiders]

I keep hearing this. Imma start next week upping working everything out twice a week, I dunno bout that full body though; what does a your schedule look like for a day of lifting?

I try to lift as hard and heavy as I can every time I go, and I do dropsets for everything. If I feel I overtrained a certain muscle group, I simply deload.

If my forearms are zapped and sore cause I've been doing lots of "heavy" weighted chins, I'll reduce the weight or just do unweighted reps. I micromanage my deloads depending on the exercise.

If I want to focus on a particular exercise, I hit it hard and I hit it first. Always squat before I deadlift to preserve dem stabalizers for the deads, then again, I did weighted chin's first so stabalizers still got their donk diddled but fukk it.

Today I wanted to try and do a training max for OHP so I did OHP first. I'll name what I did from start to end in order.

Barbell overhead press, weighted chins, front squats, bench, deadlift (only one set of five), weighted dips

As a finisher, I always do a couple sets of ab isolation exercises. I usually do an endurance set and a "power" set. Endurance = strictly bodyweight, higher reps "power" = weights added

so today I did one 80 rep set of Marine-style crunches, then two sets of plate sit-ups with a 45-lb plate.

You do enough compounds like squats, OHP or deadlifts and your core will get a workout from those alone

Usually workout 2 or 3 times a week. I've noticed lately that my forearms are as defined as they've ever been from weighted chins. Only been seriously doing them for like 1-3 months.

Now, I've thrown all of my iso exercises in the bushes. I'm trying to preserve as much strength as a I can to cut and become a much better runner so I dgaf about having a lot of mass, but you can still tailor a full body program to your goals.

 

[Jesus]

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Yall got me thinkin about mixin my upper body with lower body shyt

Maybe when I get back to bulking