adelman337
01-19-2009, 12:09 AM
Well I am a bit bored and have been meaning to type this out so there is no better time than now.
My training career started roughly 10 years ago. and out of that 10 years I have been training for maybe 7 or 8 years. I would always go for several months in a row then take an equally long break. My first split was a chest/tri, back/bi, shoulder/legs. and of course that was done with WAY too many sets. Then about 5 years ago I decided to purchase the Arnold encyclopedia, and that is what go me HUGE (that was a joke and did not happen.) I trained that way for maybe a year and made little to no gains. Then some how I ran across this site and just started reading a lot and trying to figure stuff out. My first decent routine was the madcow 5x5. I made decent gains on this for a good 5-6 months and then just could not handle squatting that many times in one week.
Since starting that routine and finding this site I have not missed a beat. I have been consistently training for at 2-3 years. And during that time I have seen many training partners come and go. One of the things that has helped me greatly is seeing some friends that I went to high school, and are now pro strong men. I remember the first time I say them squatting with 7 plates on each side of the bar I was in complete amazement and wanted to do that. That was the first time I had actually seen someone that was strong, not just a 315 bench strong, but really strong. And that forever marked my training mindset.
The routine that I have made some of my best gains on was IA's two day WSBB. In less than a year I put on a good 30lbs. Although I have read a lot of stuff on here I am still pretty much an idiot and can not tell you the science behind stuff. I just like to try to lift heavy weights. Simple as that. I don't complicate things I just go to the gym and do what ever I feel like for that day. I never really know what exercise I am going to do until I get in the gym. I will just do a heavy movement (squat, bench or dead) and figure out from that what I feel I need to work on. Until I started working With IA, I was doing a basic leg day with a ME movement and then 3-5 accessory/supplemental movements. And i would do that two days a week then on Saturday if I had time I would do some DE stuff or try and figure out what my seek spots were. The months leading into training with IA it was my shoulders.
My training career started roughly 10 years ago. and out of that 10 years I have been training for maybe 7 or 8 years. I would always go for several months in a row then take an equally long break. My first split was a chest/tri, back/bi, shoulder/legs. and of course that was done with WAY too many sets. Then about 5 years ago I decided to purchase the Arnold encyclopedia, and that is what go me HUGE (that was a joke and did not happen.) I trained that way for maybe a year and made little to no gains. Then some how I ran across this site and just started reading a lot and trying to figure stuff out. My first decent routine was the madcow 5x5. I made decent gains on this for a good 5-6 months and then just could not handle squatting that many times in one week.
Since starting that routine and finding this site I have not missed a beat. I have been consistently training for at 2-3 years. And during that time I have seen many training partners come and go. One of the things that has helped me greatly is seeing some friends that I went to high school, and are now pro strong men. I remember the first time I say them squatting with 7 plates on each side of the bar I was in complete amazement and wanted to do that. That was the first time I had actually seen someone that was strong, not just a 315 bench strong, but really strong. And that forever marked my training mindset.
The routine that I have made some of my best gains on was IA's two day WSBB. In less than a year I put on a good 30lbs. Although I have read a lot of stuff on here I am still pretty much an idiot and can not tell you the science behind stuff. I just like to try to lift heavy weights. Simple as that. I don't complicate things I just go to the gym and do what ever I feel like for that day. I never really know what exercise I am going to do until I get in the gym. I will just do a heavy movement (squat, bench or dead) and figure out from that what I feel I need to work on. Until I started working With IA, I was doing a basic leg day with a ME movement and then 3-5 accessory/supplemental movements. And i would do that two days a week then on Saturday if I had time I would do some DE stuff or try and figure out what my seek spots were. The months leading into training with IA it was my shoulders.