[quote]MJ - Cartwright wrote:
I would be more than happy to gain around ten pounds/four kilograms in the next twelve months.
I personally tend to find that when im training in the [[on the whole]] 6-12 rep range, I increase strength with relative ease, but do not increase muscle mass and do not stay as ‘lean’ as usual where as when I train with the program I have outlined, I do gain considerably more muscle.
Thanks for the intersest giterdone.
MJ-Cartwright
Fitness Instructor and Strength Coach
Pontypridd South Wales [/quote]
Ok, that puts things into perspective.
I’m going to sound like a real asshole for saying this, but you know I don’t really mean to…
But…
You are 6ft, 196 lbs at average leanness… And the most you expect to gain in 12 months are 10 pounds?
How can you go on like that?
I would have stopped training and taken up ice hockey or something if all I could get out of 300 or so high-volume workouts per year were 10 lbs! At your stage that’s really rather slow progress…
The exact progress I’d expect from someone who really focuses on the wrong things.
Don’t get me wrong. There are some guys like Bauer and Waylander etc who thrive on high volume… But you’re doing pretty much twice the volume they’re doing, and they are getting stronger much faster than you from the looks of it… They have the genetics for this, you probably don’t.
If Ronnie Coleman had trained your way, he’d probably be stuck somewhere at 230-240 lbs today.
And that’s Ronnie…
If you’re ever up for some experimenting, hit me up with a pm and we’ll see if we can’t make you grow 20+ lbs a year with a less outlandish approach.
Again, no offense… I’m just generally flabbergasted whenever people come on here claiming that doing 10 times the volume that a pro does gives them “great results”, which equals at most +10 lbs a year while being hardly out of the beginner stage, size/strength wise.
That routine may have given you faster/better results during your first few years of training mostly because the majority of beginners of average height can gain their way up to 190 or 200 via pretty much any routine as long as they eat something…
But past that stage, the real world (genetics) generally comes crashing down on most people and just doing half the exercises you know every time you walk into the gym no longer produces anything but pathetic results.
You won’t get your arms over 20 until you can put up some significant weight for reps on the exercises that matter… And strength doesn’t usually come easy when doing 6-8 exercises for biceps with a ton of sets each.
Oh well, good luck with your training of course, though I honestly can’t begin to understand why anyone would settle for such slow progress despite the HUGE amount of work being put in.