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If you're copying what the advanced (10+ years training) as a newcomer, that was your first mistake. Their training is specifically designed for someone who has
by netizen-9748 6y ago
If you're copying what the advanced (10+ years training) as a newcomer, that was your first mistake. Their training is specifically designed for someone who has the neural adaptation and muscle mass of a person with many years under their belt. You don't progress by doing the same thing for 10 years, that's antithetical to the ideas of adaptation concerning hypertrophy. Look up the lectures by Dr. Mike Israetel for good info.
- mancerayder 6y agoYeah, I know that copying what a 10 year bodybuilder is doing is no good and not the fault of bodybuilding as a sport. But I'm making an even bolder statement: that using concentration exercises like bicep curls, leg curls and (especially) 3-4 different angles of shoulder and chest work, espcially with machines and high reps, will very much increase your chances of injury. I'm telling you that whenever I walk into a commercial gym or my building gym (i.e. not a powerlifting or oly gym) I see easily 90% of the people doing stuff I know is in bad form at worst, and at best will give them the most mild of training regimens. I blame the culture of bodybuilding (in the U.S. at least. I read that in Eastern Europe there is a very different attitude and training culture starting from school). I argue that barbell training -- functional training more broadly, which includes calisthenics if you want -- is vastly safer and superior to bodybuilding and indeed yes, it does require a bit of personal training and instruction in the beginning.