Trying to train old school Arthur Jones style

[AgainstAllOdds]

Do you think this fits with his training ideas?

Mon/wed/friday
Warm up/Abs

1 - 1 set of 20 repetitions, full squat

2 - 1 set of 6-10 reps, stifflegged deadlift

3 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, Incline DB press

superset

4 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, Incline Press

5 - 1 set of 6-10 reps, Machine Flyes

6 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, straight arm pullover

7 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, Military Press

8 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, upright rows

9 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, shrugs

10 - 1 set of 6-10 repetitions, tbar rows

11 - 1 set of 6-10 reps, deadlift

12 - 1 set of 6-10, bent over barbell rows

13 - 1 set of 6-10, barbell curls
superset
14 - 1 set of 6-10, incline db curls

15 - 1 set of 15, behind neck db extension

Didn't put in all the supersets, but I superset, triset a lot of things or if it's not a superset; it's very little rest.

That's phase 1: 3-4 weeks

Phase 2 is the same thing, maybe a few different exercises, but instead 10-15 reps.

Phase 3 is negative only training, 6-10 reps. Then I repeat.

 

[rsnoble]

Are you on juice? I don't think I could deal with that 3 days a week!

 

[crew9]

Why would you superset all of that?

 

[crew9]

Ok, for a second there I thought you were doing a superset of 15 lifts.

 

[AgainstAllOdds]

Not all of it, just certain parts. Arthur recommended very little rest..

 

[Atomic Punk]

Why would you superset all of that?

Exactly. There are some people here, who need to stop being so goddamn creative with these exercises, and get down & dirty with some basic shit. All these crazy variations, and the people who for some reason blindly encourage them, are getting out of hand in my opinion. Is it just an excuse to not do the shit right, because it is too hard? In my opinion, yes.

Flame away.

 

[casualbb]

I like that program because it's basic and frequent, but where Arthur went wrong was thinking that fatigue was helpful. It isn't! You shouldn't be supersetting any of that or shortening your rest periods. Failure training moreso than volume is the cause of overtraining, and I'd say doing the program as recommended will overtrain you in 2-3 weeks. Keep the exercises and sets but for god's sake don't kill yourself.