Re: question for you

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Andrzej Rosa wrote:

Dnia 2007-03-28 WEZ napisa?(a):

Tom Anderson Wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, WEZ wrote:

& im currently doing a few sets on each muscle which takes between 60-90 minutes

Sounds good. What exercises do you do?

i do three sets of ten of each

bench press
hammer curl
bicep curl.............these are the only free weights i use

the rest are machine based for working shoulders' triceps chest and legs

You do no back exercises. You need them to balance muscular development around a shoulder joint. Shoulder joint is like a golf ball on a T-piece balanced by a set of strings pulling it down. If you make strings on one side of the piece stronger, the ball becomes unstable, and it hurts. It hurts literally, and it hurts your looks. Divide you upper body compound moves into horizontal pushes and pulls (like bench and row) and vertical pushes and pulls (like shoulder press and pulldown) and equalize the number of sets you do for every move. Like, if you do 3 sets of bench press, you should do 3 sets of rows. If you do 3 sets of shoulder presses, you should do 3 sets of pulldowns.

What Andrzej said.

Your arms will get reasonable amount of workout by simply doing this compound moves, but if you like to train them more, add one exercise for biceps and one for triceps

In my limited experience, there is certainly a benefit to training the arms directly - maybe i'm crap, or maybe i just have a really strong or weak back or something, but adding curls to a routine which had rows and two types of pulldowns has made a rapid and noticeable difference to my arms. They feel a lot more like they've been worked, and there's a definite (but small so far!) increase in size. Also, i had to be really strict about my form to get that result - i was doing curls for a while, but cheating them, really, and getting nothing from it. Making a conscious effort to keep my upper arms fixed while i curl made a huge difference.

Whether this is useful for overall strength, i don't know.

(you don't need any more; really).

True.

tom

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