CEO - What are the basic principles of DC Training?

[the_alcatraz]

I am reading some DC over again, found this,and thought of you.

My principle has always been why make it harder on yourself than it needs to be.



RH = Ron Harris

D = Dante aka Doggcrapp

RH: How and why did you come up with DC Training? Had you grown frustrated with other styles of training? Did DC Training evolve over time?


D:I started out with the old volume training concepts just like everyone else does who reads what Arnold and the boys did and what the newstand magazines put out there as "the golden rules".....but I got to a point where I started thinking "there is no rhyme or reason to this".

It all seemed based on obsessive-complusiveness instead of deductive reasoning to what truly builds muscle mass. I think alot of modern day bodybuilding routines are built on "the must principle" which is fanatical bodybuilders thinking "I must do inclines and declines and cable crossovers and flat bench and pec deck and flyes for chest this workout or I wont have all the bases covered and I wont grow". I think thats flat out wrong and again comes from direct obsessive-compulsiveness.

DC training did evolve over time as I trained more and more bodybuilders and noted their results. Back in the early 90's it was the same basic concepts as today but had slightly more volume to it. Thru trial and error over the last 13 years or so Ive honed it down to what you see today.

Wow. Thank you for sharing Tat.

I'm usually one that believes if it works for you, don't change it, i.e. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I am growing like weed doing my own thing, kinda a mix between volume training and strength training...

However, I have already agreed that I will strt DC training in January. I'm going to read up on it and really know it very well before I start it. Come January, I'm starting a DC training alcatraz log and keeping it updated.

Maybe I'll turn from a critic to the biggest supporter of Dante.

 

[ceo]

I'm usually one that believes if it works for you, don't change it, i.e. if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I am growing like weed doing my own thing, kinda a mix between volume training and strength training...

I agree with this as well. If what you're doing is working and you're happy, why change it? Dante would say the same thing too. DC is for when you're stuck. When you're not growing your way anymore, and you've tried other things and you're still not growing. That's what he says anyway.

I had stagnated in growth for over a year and tried a few different things in that time and didn't gain at all. Then I started DC and started growing right away.

 

[ceo]

Ok static holds.

How soon would you introduce them?

I think I started them on my second blast. I basically forgot about them the first week and a half of my first blast, so I figured I'd put them into my next blast.

Some people start off with straight sets and hold off on the rp sets and statics until later. It really all depends on the individual and how well they know their body when it comes to training and recovery. I think you'll be fine adding them to your next blast.