How often can i workout Biceps while on steroids?

[wls8687]

How often could i work out for example biceps when i'm steroids?
how long must i rest between going to the gym again?

 

[sweed]

spring break is over man.....

lol jk

even on AS you need time to rest. ill be doing 1 body part once a week.. just remember you use your bi's in back movements as well..

 

[Tux]

Depends on the person really. I can hit my bi's twice a week sometimes, but usually I hit them only once a week. I do them a little bit after back on tuesday, then bomb them by themselves on saturday. As long as you're fully recovered you can work them as often as you like, but usually that's 2x per week at most for most people. I usually judge it this way: If my bi's get sore, I won't work them till the soreness has been gone for a full day. If I work them saturday and they get sore sunday, the day AFTER they feel normal again is the soonest I'll work 'em.

 

[Madcow2]

For nearly 99% of the gym training world, the key to bigger bicepts is in increasing the big lifts like deads, squats, presses, and rows. These drive long term progress and major mass increases. If there was some magic combination or amount of isolation work the noddle arms curling in the mirrors and using the power rack to hold their curl bars would have certainly lucked into it by this point. Direct arm work basically fluffs out and incrementally develops the base one already has. As for increasing the base, that is done with the big lifts, even the ones that seemingly don't involve arms like the squat. Put 100lbs on your squat and dead and 50lbs on your rows and presses - you will find bigger guns.

 

[silverknight]

When your on gear you can hit you bi's twice week as long a you get plenty of recovery time. I say 2-3 days. I used to hit bis mondays and fridays. You really don't have to do alot of sets or reps bc its such a small muscle group and they get hit pretty good when you do back also.

 

[Makavelli]

For nearly 99% of the gym training world, the key to bigger bicepts is in increasing the big lifts like deads, squats, presses, and rows. These drive long term progress and major mass increases. If there was some magic combination or amount of isolation work the noddle arms curling in the mirrors and using the power rack to hold their curl bars would have certainly lucked into it by this point. Direct arm work basically fluffs out and incrementally develops the base one already has. As for increasing the base, that is done with the big lifts, even the ones that seemingly don't involve arms like the squat. Put 100lbs on your squat and dead and 50lbs on your rows and presses - you will find bigger guns.

I agree with this. Too many people go in and try all kinds of stupid arm routines, including curls in the squat rack, but neglect leg and back training.

 

[hammertime30]

I usually train each body part once every 7 days, however I'm about shift gears and train each body part every 5 days and I wouldn't doing any more than that for growth....of course the more often you train, your diet and amount of sleep becomes of even greater importantance.....when it comes to training arms....remember your arms are the secondary muscle being trained with back....so if you are training arms twice per week in actuality, you are training them 3 times a week and if you are training back twice per week, you are training arms 4 times per week....unless you do like me....where I always train the secondary muscle with the large muscle.....meaning triceps with chest and biceps with back..............so if I do 9 sets total for the back, I'll finish arms with 2 barbell sets and 2 hammer curl sets and call it a day.....

 

[FatherMike]

I agree I think you should only go once a week...Rest is very important. You figure you are only in the gym an hour or so a day, the rest of the time you are eating and sleeping......

 

[MrRTTB]

week 1:
M: Back, Biceps
T: Chest, Tri
W: OFF
Thu: Quads, calfs
Fri: Shoulders, Triceps
Sat: Hams, Biceps
Sun: OFF

Week 2:
Mon: Chest
Thu: Back, sidelaterals
Wedn: OFF
Thu: Legs, calfs
Fri: Shoulderpresses, bic and tri

Week 3: Start over

That shit works nice for me atleast


Week 2:

 

[Makavelli]

I've always found it amusing the types of training that everyone does. And most of the routines work. Just goes to show you that this game is all genetics. You find what works for you and you do it. The stupidest routine I've ever seen had the guy training each bodypart 3 times a week! And he was natural . He had a better physique than 99% of us...go figure. Obviously he would have done much better if he were not overtraining, but how do you tell a guy who looks like he does, that he's training all wrong?

 

[BionicBC]

For nearly 99% of the gym training world, the key to bigger bicepts is in increasing the big lifts like deads, squats, presses, and rows. These drive long term progress and major mass increases. If there was some magic combination or amount of isolation work the noddle arms curling in the mirrors and using the power rack to hold their curl bars would have certainly lucked into it by this point. Direct arm work basically fluffs out and incrementally develops the base one already has. As for increasing the base, that is done with the big lifts, even the ones that seemingly don't involve arms like the squat. Put 100lbs on your squat and dead and 50lbs on your rows and presses - you will find bigger guns.

"Bows to master..."
-Bionic

 

[fugetaboutit]

if you want to put on some mass in a relatively short period of time, you should try a 5 x 5 program for your bi's (and any other body part that's lagging.)

 

[freakzi11a]

For nearly 99% of the gym training world, the key to bigger bicepts is in increasing the big lifts like deads, squats, presses, and rows. These drive long term progress and major mass increases. If there was some magic combination or amount of isolation work the noddle arms curling in the mirrors and using the power rack to hold their curl bars would have certainly lucked into it by this point. Direct arm work basically fluffs out and incrementally develops the base one already has. As for increasing the base, that is done with the big lifts, even the ones that seemingly don't involve arms like the squat. Put 100lbs on your squat and dead and 50lbs on your rows and presses - you will find bigger guns.

True that!

 

[DJ_UFO]

So many different routines because we all have so many different genetics. You have to experiment on yourself. One of the keys that work for everyone is VARIETY. And just a few people give importance to that. If you do the same routine week after week, you are hitting the same part of the muscle evey week. If you do the same muscle twice a week but with the same routine, you are maybe overtraining the muscle in the same area. But if you train a muscle twice a week with different excercises, you can do one heavy session and the next one heavy again using different excercises and you'll get growth in the whole muscle. With time, that gives you that old skewl wide chests, wide arms, ripped and built back.

 

[Steve The Bluesman]

I agree with this. Too many people go in and try all kinds of stupid arm routines, including curls in the squat rack, but neglect leg and back training.

This is so true it can't be said enough. Way, way too many people only do the exercizes they like to do. Bench, militaries, curls, tricep pressdowns...Hello, do you have a back and legs? And what is with all the iso stuff? Set after set of concentrations instead of a good compound move like close grip chins.

This is even more pronouced for the guys using gear that neglect entire bodyparts. Big upperbodies with legs that look like they can't hold them up. Clowns.

It is not that hard to set up a full body split routine and stick with it. YOU MUSH EMBRACE THE SQUAT!!!


Bluesman

 

[Makavelli]

So many different routines because we all have so many different genetics. You have to experiment on yourself. One of the keys that work for everyone is VARIETY. And just a few people give importance to that. If you do the same routine week after week, you are hitting the same part of the muscle evey week. If you do the same muscle twice a week but with the same routine, you are maybe overtraining the muscle in the same area. But if you train a muscle twice a week with different excercises, you can do one heavy session and the next one heavy again using different excercises and you'll get growth in the whole muscle. With time, that gives you that old skewl wide chests, wide arms, ripped and built back.

I don't agree with that. I've done the same routine for years. Same exercises, same amount of sets, etc. I make continual progress. The only thing that changes is when I'm on, I'll train each bodypart more frequently and add more sets. Other than that, it's the same. Once you find what works for you, you should stick with it. Look at Ronnie. I don't think you'd find very many people that would make any progress with his routine. He's been doing the same routine since he was 12! Has he made progress? Yeah...

 

[azul]

I don't agree with that. I've done the same routine for years. Same exercises, same amount of sets, etc. I make continual progress. The only thing that changes is when I'm on, I'll train each bodypart more frequently and add more sets. Other than that, it's the same. Once you find what works for you, you should stick with it. Look at Ronnie. I don't think you'd find very many people that would make any progress with his routine. He's been doing the same routine since he was 12! Has he made progress? Yeah...

Lol, what's his routine?

12 months of testosterone?

 

[Makavelli]

Lol, what's his routine?

12 months of testosterone?

You can't look at AAS to compare if a routine works or not. I use AAS, but there's no way in hell I could make progress on his routine. I make the best progress training each bodypart once ever 6 days when on and once a week when off.
Ronnie trains 6 days a week. He trains each bodypart twice a week. He takes Sundays off.

 

[toxicsambo]

I agree with this. Too many people go in and try all kinds of stupid arm routines, including curls in the squat rack, but neglect leg and back training.

I saw some clown do the jerry's kid version of curls in the gym yesterday. I don't know wtf was going on. His arms were curling out to the side and up, then made a right turn. It was funny. I was waiting for him to tear a ligament.

You see less and less ppl doing deadlifts of any kind and also basic barbell rows.

 

[Makavelli]

I saw some clown do the jerry's kid version of curls in the gym yesterday. I don't know wtf was going on. His arms were curling out to the side and up, then made a right turn. It was funny. I was waiting for him to tear a ligament.

You see less and less ppl doing deadlifts of any kind and also basic barbell rows.

Men's Health and magazines like it, are ruining training. They promote all kinds of stupid shit. Now kids don't even know how to train. They stay away from the squat rack and don't know anything about deads and rows. It's a shame. It's another reason that they point to us and say "if I used steroids I could look like him too..."

 

[satchboogie]

anybody working out one muscle per week is totally shorting gains!

i get 3x workouts per muscle per 2 weeks.

 

[toxicsambo]

anybody working out one muscle per week is totally shorting gains!

i get 3x workouts per muscle per 2 weeks.

Exactly. Gotta work hard. I think ppl are confusing the hysteria of overtraining with working out hard. I do
Day..
1:chest/back/legs
2:cardio
3:delts/bi's/tri's
4:cardio
5:repeat
6:repeat
7:nothing.

Never had a problem with joints, gains, yadda, yadda, yadda.

 

[WannaBeBig72]

Exactly. Gotta work hard. I think ppl are confusing the hysteria of overtraining with working out hard. I do
Day..
1:chest/back/legs
2:cardio
3:delts/bi's/tri's
4:cardio
5:repeat
6:repeat
7:nothing.

Never had a problem with joints, gains, yadda, yadda, yadda.

That sounds like way too much to do in one day. Chest/back/legs? Those are 3 major muscle groups. I always thought you shouldn't spend more then an hour in the gym on weight training...

 

[Makavelli]

That sounds like way too much to do in one day. Chest/back/legs? Those are 3 major muscle groups. I always thought you shouldn't spend more then an hour in the gym on weight training...

Although it's too much for me, it may not be too much for him.

 

[Mr_MAX]

i have dont twice a week 3 times a week once a week...
3 times a week i was a little more tired... but felt tight all the time..
2 a week was just about right and one time a week was not enough..
I like ... 3-4 on one off... ( think everyone should try them all... each 4 a couple of months... to know for themselves.... I have even tried the HIT mentzer..
workout... that was strange... i did get stronger... (but hated it )

 

[toxicsambo]

I always thought you shouldn't spend more then an hour in the gym on weight training...

Complete horseshit. Get that out of your head. That's more Men's Health crap and other terrible advice passed out recently. Arnold used to lift for3-4 hours a day. Did he look like he needed to "cut down". You got to work hard.

My workout are not long despite what you see. I don't rest for minutes. 1 minute, that's it. Anymore than 2 minutes than you're losing out on intensity. I also do my first set heavy 10/8/6. Then my 2nd set is a little lighter at 12/10/8/6/ and a 12*12 superset. Then my last exercise I do 2 sets to failure. Then next muscle. But you have to see that I'm getting rest every other day with my schedule. I'm trainng no more than 1 hr 45min, really. So I'm not exhausted. I only do 20 minutes on my cardio days(HIIT).

So really I'm trying to make my workouts effective, not time consuming and uneffective. I would say you should workout at least an hour and a half while on AAS. You recover quicker and you want to make the most of it.

 

[thebigdog05]

I bang out sraight bar curls in all my bi routines, best exercise for building mass just ask Arnie. Try mixing up preachers and various other exercises to hit different angles on your bicep heads twice a week at the most. Straight Bar curls by far best mass builder, hit'em hard and you'll be rockin the GUNSHOW in no time.