Reg Park's Workout For the people who don't know who Reg Park, he is one of the most famous bodybuilders of all time. Hell, he was the dude that got Arnold Schwarzenegger into bodybuilding. Reg's way of working out was having you work on the main BB exercises; basically, working on the fundamentals of bodybuilding. His workouts do look pretty crazy, but it just a matter of adapting and getting use to. I did phase 1 of the his workout today and it was pretty intense having to do all 3 BB exercises in one day. I've done quite a few workouts but never really felt confident until i came across this one and the velocity diet 3.0 (some other workout). i suggest giving this article a read. http://www.uk-muscle.co.uk/getting-s...-programs.html Atm, i'm Squating 315x4. goal is to hit 355 by the end of this year Bench 255x5. Goal 300lbs Deadlift 325x4. 375 DB shoulder press 85x5. Although the workout is only 3 days a week, you will need sufficient resting periods for your muscles from all the heavy lifting. Its back to the basics again. Happy lifting. |
you squat 315x4 and you think you will be at 400 in 2 and half months? anyways, its a good program but id rather follow the SS one. |
I would say 355 is a better goal |
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actually maybe 400, is a LITTLE high. i just did the math and you'd have to be able to increase your strength by 1.13lbs per day for 75 days, that sounds slightly hard to do without like way above average dedication to working out. |
HAH! got this from that link 1. Eat Like a King Muscle isn't made out of thin air, it's made out of the fuel you provide it and that's food. You can forget everything you've learned and will learn in this article, if you don't eat enough to fuel growth you won't grow. You kids have this idea that you can grow bigger and somehow stay smaller, that you can pack on 20-30 lbs of muscle and keep an Ethiopian six-pack. It ain't gonna happen, or it'll happen so slowly that your grand kids will grow faster than you do. And if you're saying to yourself that you can't seem to gain weight, I got another name for you so-called "hard gainers," it's under eaters! If you're having trouble adding weight to the scale you need to be eating everything that isn't nailed down, then you need to eat everything that is nailed down, and then you need to eat the nails. For guys, everytime you sit down for a meal it's a banquet, a competitive eating contest, it's an Olympic sport! Screw your light yogurt and your skim milk, you need to be downing whole milk, whole eggs, nuts, peanut butter, fresh fruits and veggies, plenty of meat and top it all off with olive oil! And one more thing; if it's not something that your grandparents would recognize as food, it ain't food! This immediately nullifies many things you'd get out of a bag, box or can. This means you need to be sticking to the outside of the grocery store where they keep all the fresh food and skimp on visiting the aisles. 2. Rest Like a Baby You don't grow while you work, you grow while you rest. Your hard earned sweat and blood will be wasted if you don't give yourself a chance to recover. This means getting at least 8, and more like 10, hours of uninteruppted sleep every night. If you don't have time to rest, then you don't have time to train, it's as simple as that. (I only post this cuz most people have trouble even sleeping 10 hours, and they think it's normal to be like that, hah, i think long school hours, late night studying, long work hours, aka, society, have fucked most people's ability to do sleep like a baby, wherever, whenever.) |
I like this one too 7. Overtraining = Underrecovering Overtraining is The Black Plague of the bodybuilding world and by my estimates your chances of getting either one are about equal. Don't concern yourself with working too hard or too long, concern yourself with recovering too little. There is no amount of training that will put you into an overtrained state, there is only a deficit of recovery that will. Train hard and rest harder and you'll never have to worry about getting overtrained. But be sure to wash your hands just in case. Everyday of the week I do some sort of physical activity, but if you get at least 8 hours of sleep every day as well, and eat enough, you'll be fine |
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You can only shoot as high as you aim. |
i thought you meant Ray Park the guy who played Darth Maul |
Good thing I sleep 8 hours a night at least :) |
^lol, if i don't sleep for atleast 8 hrs i feel tired. |
okay.. so since my first post in this thread, i've been working on this 5x5 work out for the past 5-6 weeks. Here are my current results: Currently weighing ~211lbs. Squat 295 -> 345 Bench 255 -> 285 Military press 140 -> 150 BB rows 165 ->185 Deadlift 345 -> 365 Chin Ups bodyweight + 10 -> +25 On some exercises, i'm starting to feel a plateau and some i can keep on going. Anyone else doing this exercise? i'm gona stop doing deadlifts because i feel that my lower back isn't strong enough so i'm gona work on that for a bit and then get back into it and i also switched from military press to db press just because i do mini-push presses when i get lazy lol. post up your results! |
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i wouldn't switch out deadlifts for the reason stated above, just keep at 'em and use a weight that you can manage safely... or if you are absolutely certain its your lower back that needs some work, then do rack deads in place of deadlifts and then come back to the deadlift |
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squat is a major lower back exercise? |
holy fuck squats and SLDL really kill my back, my back is still sore from friday.. went to workout today and couldnt do deadlifts.. |
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Halo, it doesn't hurt my lower back, just my upper back. It feels like the upper part of my back (I think shoulder blades, not sure what its called) is getting compressed everytime I go heavy. As for deads, I think it might be my legs getting tired from the squats, that's why my form is a little lacking. I think I will try out the rack deads, they might be a little easier on the legs Posted via RS Mobile |
Damn I think I wanna start doing Reg's workout routine. I'll probably be doing next to no weight at first compared to them, but reading that article actually MAKES me want to start it |
its a simple but hard workout. |
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ive had decent gains using this 5x5 method only 3 weeks into it but bench has gone from repping 185 to 215 i'd be only happier if i didn't have a glass back that held me back in squats :( |
Nice, I'm stopping squats and doing hack squats instead simply because its waaay too painful for my shoulder blades. So painful that I can't even stand up straight after a set. Posted via RS Mobile |
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