Hannibal said:
1. How do you know that a routine that YOU list for him is better for HIM than the one he is doing? We all react differently to the same training.
2. His bench will go up....how? It just will? And "he needs to get his diet and training in order"...talk about a generalization. I haven't seen him post his diet or training yet...so I couldn't tell you if it needs work or not. Maybe he is in school and works 40hrs a week...and is sleep deprived. Perhaps he lost a hand in a farming1` accident and he has to bench with a hook (quite impressive, btw). My point being, you don't know what is causing the plateau until you have all the factors in the equation. And jumping to the conclusing that it is Overtraining or that he is a Hardgainer is not very helpful.
Hannibal,
With all due respect, Debaser has a point.
I cannot read D's mind and draw from it a routine he envisions for the Shredder; but then again, what SS is doing
is not working. It's likely that a different approach is in order.
On the second count, Debaser clearly meant that,
once Shredder's training and diet is in order, his bench press will go up.
Training can easily be adjusted to compensate for "life-stress," and it can be fixed to accomodate someone who has lost his hand (which Shredder would probably mention).
OTOH, one cannot often choose to simply work less, or slack off when they're on the job, so there's no way to adjust that stress
except to rethink one's training. If stress is a problem for Shredder and he's progressing, then in fact his training
ain't in order either, and hence needs work.
I do agree, however, that we should avoid hasty generalizations; e.g., "you're a hardgainer" or "you're overtraining."
But we need to keep Debaser's words in context here:
If we don't see your routine there's no way to help.
IOW, he's reserving final judgment until he has "all the factors in the equation," as you said (and I agree). But...
You are probably stuck from overtraining. You sound like a real hardgainer at 140 lbs.
Probably stuck from overtraining. Most likely, he's right.
Given his sticking point and bodyweight, Shredder is probably young. So it's very likely that he has succumbed to the same enthusiasm we all did when training was still somewhat fresh, when virtually everyone overtrains in the belief that "more is better."
(I don't agree that a 140 lber. is necessarily a HG. I started out weighing 120 lbs., ripped but very small. And I'm not a HG, nor was I 3' tall. Even Paul Dillett started out as a real lanky little weed, and he grows from sneezing.)
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