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70's guide to training
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Tom Treutlein
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If your goal of setting up the routine was nostalgia, then good luck. Unless you're a novice or juicing though, I doubt the routine will take you very far. There's too much volume, and too many useless exercises.
blut wump
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You're not going to get that 70's look without the breakfast of champions.
Overall, the routine, like Tom says, looks a bit bloated. It's also lacking deadlifts. They went out of fashion more in the 80s after Franco faded and the Nautilus took over the world. You could swap the cable rows for barbell rows and do them before the pulldowns which you could also try to drop in favour of pull-ups, depending on your bodyweight/strength. If you're prepared to add deadlifts then you could also drop the hamstring curls in favour of stiff-legged deadlift or Romanian deadlift.
Aside from that it's looking ok except that maybe you'd be better off mixing it up a bit more. Maybe upper/lower each twice a week rather than a whole session on just chest or back or whatever. That'll give more frequent stimulation to more muscles and take more advantage of muscle antagonism.
Overall, the routine, like Tom says, looks a bit bloated. It's also lacking deadlifts. They went out of fashion more in the 80s after Franco faded and the Nautilus took over the world. You could swap the cable rows for barbell rows and do them before the pulldowns which you could also try to drop in favour of pull-ups, depending on your bodyweight/strength. If you're prepared to add deadlifts then you could also drop the hamstring curls in favour of stiff-legged deadlift or Romanian deadlift.
Aside from that it's looking ok except that maybe you'd be better off mixing it up a bit more. Maybe upper/lower each twice a week rather than a whole session on just chest or back or whatever. That'll give more frequent stimulation to more muscles and take more advantage of muscle antagonism.
riverrock
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The routine itself is good in that there are aklot of exercises that work and I like the lay out etc. However, My Man Musketeer is right when he says that D-Bol and Primo (Arnold had this one for breakfast) played a huge part in it.
You should reduce the volume of each to about 4 sets of 4 exercises for the large muscle groups (chest, back, legs) and 3 sets of 3 exercises for the smaller muscle groups (tris, biceps). Add into that a few explosive power exercises that train multiple groups like snatch and cleans, and a few deadlifts too and you've got a great work out.
I didagree completely with training twice a day. Its okay for France, Sergio and co. They got to go back to bed, but we have to go to work.
You should reduce the volume of each to about 4 sets of 4 exercises for the large muscle groups (chest, back, legs) and 3 sets of 3 exercises for the smaller muscle groups (tris, biceps). Add into that a few explosive power exercises that train multiple groups like snatch and cleans, and a few deadlifts too and you've got a great work out.
I didagree completely with training twice a day. Its okay for France, Sergio and co. They got to go back to bed, but we have to go to work.
musketeer
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d3track said:
Think of no-muscles frank zane, walking away with the title.
70's looked good because of artistic photo's.
80's BBers like gaspari or Platz looked amazing but (and I LOVE these old guys so I say this sadly, BUT) put them on a stage with Dexter Jackson or Gustavo Badel and the image fades...
