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Create Your Own Training Method

spatts

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Instead of doing something someone else thought of, why not make your own program? This would be harder for new people, but for those that have been in the iron game a while, you know what has worked, what hasn't, the extent to which certain muscles respond (or don't respond), etc...

Design the "(Insert your name here) Training Method"

...and tell me what it would look like, based on experience, common sense, and awareness of your OWN body.

Do you train instinctively? Why/why not?
 
This is precisely why Westside is the Bestside for ME. It IS my own program. People try to make it too complicated. There are only a couple of rules to the basic template.

1. Do Speed Work
2. Do Max Effort work
3. Do accessory work that fits your weakness.

So since the program is based upon my personal weaknesses and the speed work is percentage based off my own strength level...it is "my" program.

Most importantly it is FLUID not static. If it isn't working I change something. My training program is a living breathing thing and it grows with me. Too many people get set in their ways and do the same thing every time they are in the gym...and then they expect different results. In any other scenario that would not make sense...so why should it in the gym??!
 
Hannibal said:
This is precisely why Westside is the Bestside for ME. It IS my own program. People try to make it too complicated. There are only a couple of rules to the basic template.

1. Do Speed Work
2. Do Max Effort work
3. Do accessory work that fits your weakness.

So since the program is based about my personal weaknesses and the speed work is percentage based off my own strength level...it is my program.

Most importantly it is FLUID not static. If it isn't working I change something. My training program is a living breathing thing and it grows with me. Too many people get set in their ways and do the same thing every time they are in the gym...and then they expect different results. In any other scenario that would not make sense...so why should it in the gym??!

Well you know my response to that. :)
 
Really simple

3 weeks loading, 2 weeks deloading then PR.

train every musclegroup twice a week, not necassirly with the same exercise.

train explosively with both heavy and light weights

use low reps but more sets

long rest periods

use plyometrics in combo with normal exercises - complexing them
 
Anyone else? There are like 8-10 popular programs and hundreds of us...who does their OWN thing?
 
spatts said:
Anyone else? There are like 8-10 popular programs and hundreds of us...who does their OWN thing?

Well I'm trying to come up with my own program. Reading all these different styles and finding what I like and what works.

You see the boxes I made?
 
a lot of times I dont have a program. I'll just do a lift when i feel like it. I might feel like squatting 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, or 4 days after my last squatting. I just mix it up big time. Ive tried to stick to a strick schedule but that doesnt work for me haha
 
muscledog95 said:
a lot of times I dont have a program. I'll just do a lift when i feel like it. I might feel like squatting 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, or 4 days after my last squatting. I just mix it up big time. Ive tried to stick to a strick schedule but that doesnt work for me haha

That has its pro's and con's...

I have a very adaptable template that suits me perfectly. When I'm done with my Construction Technology study (I'm procrasinating now!!!), I'll type it up.
 
Currently, I am on the

"Dual Factor WestDogg 12x5 Low/High Volume Men's Health Ab Routine"



but really, I am doing an HIT type routine ala Dogg Crapp.....BUT, I find myself modifying things....because I don't really give a crap if everyone tells me I should do it exactly as he writes it.....and so, to some level I do train instinctively in the sense that I may add a few sets to a workout if I feel it needs it. Do things in different orders if I see fit. But, I feel it's critical that I never do less than the required plan.....no matter how bad I feel that day....

I am also doing my own thing as far as dieting goes too....and it seems to be working.
 
While I dont currently use WSB, I played with it for a while. What I really did like about it was that it isn't a program like Body For Life or something, its more of a training philosophy, which can be applied by many different people with differing body types in different ways. You accept and observe certain tenants of it, and mold your training to fit them. In this way it is an infinite amount of custom tailored programs all in one. However I did it is different than how Louie does it which is different than how spatts does it, etc etc.

In my opinion, this is one of the best, and yet worst things about WSB. But that's another thead....

For the last 10 weeks or so I've been using a 3 day split. I do some light stretching and warmup at the begining of each session, only takes a few minutes. I then perform either a power snatch, power clean, or push press. I typically do 3 to 4 sets of 3 in this, and about once a week I will do a heavy single in one of these movements.

On mondays and fridays I perform mostly lowerbody work. The second movement will be squat based. The squat movements I use include low box squats, high box squats, olympic squats, wide stance squats, and wide stance GMs. Typically these are all done pretty heavy. Sometimes I'll start with 1 or 2 sets of 5, which are sort of like warmups, not using just the bar but not using a workout weight either. Then I'll do 3 or 4 sets of 3. I usually end this with one or two a max effort singles, although sometimes I dont. Sometimes instead of a max effort single I'll load up a supermaximal load and just unrack it and stand to help me get the feel of heavier weights, although things like high box squats let me handle 50+ lbs more than I can squat in any other manner which also helps me become accustom to them. These 5 squat type workouts are also sometimes supplemented with band resistance, which gives 10 total heavy leg lifts. Next I typically do something like romainian deadlifts or GHR, usually sets in the 5 rep range. I usually follow this with either weighted chins or bent over barbell rows, usually 2 or 3 sets of 5-7 depending on the weights I use. Then I hit some weighted ab work and I'm done.

Wednesday is upper body day, the second movement of the day is usually incline barbell bench press or standing overhead press, sometimes I will do heavy weighted pushups or flat bench instead though. Add bands to change up things every once and a while here too. Again I always rotate the exercises, never doing the same one two weeks in a row. This is usually 4 or 5 sets of 3 for bench, 3 or 4 sets of 5 for OHP, and 3 sets of 10 for weighted pushups. Sometime I'll do a heavy single but not usually. Next is usually a tricep exercise, generally JM presses as they seem to carry over very well to pressing weight away from you,sometimes weighted dips. Here I usually do 3 or 4 sets, reps depending on weight and how I feel. Then another lat exercise, either weighted chins or bent over rows (whichever I didn't do on Monday). I favor bent over rows to chins most of the time because there are a variety of grips I can use to keep more variety in there. Sometimes I even do a T-bar row with the barbell shoved in the corner of the room. Sometimes I'll include some core work here, or leg lifts from the leg lift chair thingie.

I finish each workout with lots of longer stretching, especially in the calf/tibialis area since I have "a textbook case of shin splints" On occasion, I'll get on the leg press and work the tibs a little bit, with 2 or 3 15-20 rep physicaly therapy type sets.

Right now I do all of this instinctivly, although I also carry a notebook with me and have every rep, set, and weight written down in it. I even keep notes about pain I am having, headaches, grip getting weaker during a set, crowd in the gym, how I am feeling, anything that could effect my workout.

I am currently taking a week off, reading Supertraining and working on my next program. It will either be an offshoot of this program possibly around a 4 day split, or it will be a modified form of the University of Nebraska Advanced Weight Training program found in Complete Conditioning for Football. I like the program, but the split is sorta weird and I'd like to add more squat styles in it. Plus I do not have access to the Hammer Strength Jammer which is used a good bit in this program.

Wow thats long :rolleyes:

J.
 
1. Push/Pull/Legs workouts

2. No set day for each workout - complete as much as recovery allows (in my case, often dictated by my indoor soccer schedule)

3. Each workout follows a simple outline:
- 1 max effort exercise for 3 or 5 reps
- volume work: 2-3 accessory exercises for sets of 3x5, 5x5, 8x3 or 6x4, typically
- accessory exercises focus on weaker areas to supplement the max effort work (includes dynamic work - speed benching/explosive pushups and olympic lifting)
- hip/ab work
- 10 minutes static stretching
- short workouts - usually 45 minutes
 
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I use 5x5 right now, I think after a while doing this, I'll make my own, but for now 5x5 works fine for me.
 
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