Bobby Lashley's Workout Routine

[Shobe]

Hey guys, here is Lashley's schedule. That big dude from the WWE. What do you all think of it??

Day1: Chest & Back
Day2: Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps
Day3: Legs
Day4: Off
Day5: Off

Then start cycle again. What do you all think of it???

He also incorporates something called pyramid sets into his routine.

 

[petpre61]

you cant really say anything about a split routine without knowing what exercises and rep schemes he uses. I wouldnt like to do chest and back (proportionally big muscle groups) on one day and only do shoulders and arms (smaller muscle groups) on the next day. Also, he is working his arms on day1 with (maybe) pulls, dips, presses etc. so his arms might be a tired but still get specific attention on day2.

 

[silver_shadow]

where did you get that?

anyway as petpre said, listing body parts hardly counts as a routine description. plus, the issue that there are no strict chest and back iso exercises. the former uses tri's and shoulders while the latter uses bi's as well, all of which he hits again the next day. sounds pretty daft.

 

[BiggT]

You have to take something else into account, and that is goals. For a WWE wrestler, travel schedule and work demands (very physical in-ring product) will dictate what they do in training.

A heavy travel schedule and always working out on the road will make following a periodized program very difficult, so roughly sticking to some sort of plan to train the whole body is the best anybody can really do......also, I would imagine if you have to wrestle 4 nights a week, being sore or possibly loaded up from training and banged up isn't a good thing.

The gym I used to train at was a regular WWE stop when they were in town, most of the guys are pretty cool and the ones I would get to chatting with would say basically what I posted above.

If a guy looks good and is big, there could be many reasons for that, I wouldn't advise you to blindly follow anybody else's routine. You need to know what works and how to train yourself. Ideally, you should be improving in things like bench presses, military presses, squats, deadlifts, barbell rows, etc. and eating more calories than you burn if you want to grow muscle. There is no magic set/rep routine or combo of exercises, just get good at big lifts and eat.

 

[Shobe]

Oh I'm not saying I'm going to use this routine, I just posted it, cause I thought it was cool to read something like that. To be able to see everyone' s different routines, especially wrestlers.

 

[Tweakle]

genetic freak, naturally huge and strong & has to have an insane recovery ability to work as a pro wrestler.. factor in the huge amounts of goodies ole bobby boy is taking (he and Batista apparently get a free ride on the WWE's 'wellness policy' on account of their star status) and at the end of the day it doesn't matter what he does

Cena apparently never goes over 315 on his exercises and trains like a M&F reader.. not that he has anything like the thickness of Lashley but if you have the genes..

 

[BiggT]

Tweakle makes a good point.....one of the guys I met at a local gym when the WWE was in town was Chris Benoit. He was a pretty cool guy, taller than he looks on TV believe it or not, I'd say he is a legit 5' 11".

Anyway, he is what you'd call jacked without a doubt. He didn't go above 75s on incline dumbells, and the rest of the stuff looked to be right out of the pages of M and F or something from 'Maxim's Workout of the month'.

When you factor in genetics with an assortment of anabolic delights you just need to train with resistance to get results.

Just to edit in my post, I had to google Bobby Lashley because after being a wrestling fan since about age 2, I haven't watched in in 3 or 4 years since it became unwatchably bad, lol.....but that kind of thickness without some serious (and current, meaning his current workout, not still thick from football lifting in college 8 years ago) progressive training on big compound lifts is a genetic gift, most of the current WWEers, while well-built, don't look exactly like weightroom studs if you know what to look for (and no, abzz and biezz are not the tell-tale signs of physical performance, lol).

 

[Tweakle]

You should see how most of them are looking now, since Vince jumped on GWB's 'steroids kill kids' bandwagon and started testing 90% of the athletes. It's a shame as pro wrestlers looking like the fat guy you see on the adductor doesn't quite have the same impact. seriously, some of the new 'stars' are 200lbs with high teens bodyfat.

I remember reading a post by a guy who trained with the barbarian brothers in their prime, he saw 500lb bench presses, huge squats and massive lifts in everything.. I doubt most of todays guys do that kind of training

 

[BiggT]

You should see how most of them are looking now, since Vince jumped on GWB's 'steroids kill kids' bandwagon and started testing 90% of the athletes. It's a shame as pro wrestlers looking like the fat guy you see on the adductor doesn't quite have the same impact. seriously, some of the new 'stars' are 200lbs with high teens bodyfat.

Even back when I still watched several years ago, I noticed that the majority of the guys were barely 200lbs and looked like the A and F fags who hit the gym every Monday for chest and arms training.

I got to thinking "were wrestlers always like this and I just didn't know any better cause I was a little kid?"....then I rented some old tapes and saw that there truly were mostly big and powerful looking guys back in the day and that the newer guys really are just frat boy type lifters.

 

[imdave0182]

They showed a video of Cena deadlifting 600 a few years ago. He's no slouch.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

A lot of these guys look small in person. Most are short too (5'6-5'10). I used to think Macho Man was big and tall until I met him and he came up to my shoulders. He wa really ripped though. I just remember thinking he looked bigger back in the day and in Spiderman. Hulk Hogan was like that as well. Whenever I would see him at the mall or at a restraunt, he never looked as big as he did on tv and in movies. I think the camera adds the illusion of height/size.

As for routines, these guys travel often and lift when they can. They don't know any secrets either. Macho Man told me "yeah I just take hydroxycut with winny and lift 3 days a week. I can't handle 6 days anymore". Needless to say I wasn't impressed.

 

[silver_shadow]

there was some post on the wwe board that claimed that cena is natty and does big compound lifts till he groans under the weight.

there was another post that had a link to a pic of ole bobby not too long ago and one of him currently. the difference is pretty remarkable. those posts will still probably be up on the first or second pages of that forum.

and for those of you who want to see someone truly HYOOOGE (amongst the newcomers)... check out the great khali. apparently he's natty too. no shit, this guy dwarfs everyone else around him quite easily - no camera tricks here.

 

[javaguru]

Mine looks like this;
Day 1: Chest 20-30 sets
Day 2: Back 20-30 sets
Day 3: Biceps, shoulders calves 9-12 sets per bodypart
Day 4: Legs 20 sets total
Day 5: OFF
Repeat
I believe in training large muscle groups on thier own day. I also do not incorporate isolation tricep exercises as it overtrains them; Chest and shoulder workouts hit them hard enough. I tend to use a 5x5 routine but mix in higher reps to bridge training cycles. I also stick to compound movements like bench presses, shoulder presses, squats, deads, rows, chins ans tend to use isolation movements for biceps and calves.

 

[Tweakle]

there was some post on the wwe board that claimed that cena is natty and does big compound lifts till he groans under the weight.

yeah I remember that post.. the dork who posted that also claimed he's best budds with ole Cena and that Muscle Tech is stronger than steroids.

khali has acromegaly.. huge not exactly a good look

hope they drop the retarded 'wellness' policy, I want to see wrestlers that look like Batista not Mr Kennedy

 

[BiggT]

Yeah, or at least have them stop getting workout tips from 'Maxim' and following diet advice from Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.

 

[silver_shadow]

i think even batista has dropped a few lbs. well at least in his ring entries they announced him as 300 and not 320 like earlier... actually that was before he took a break. but he seems even more shredded this time around... freaky