I literally almost don’t know where to start. There’s just so much. I think you would’ve really gotten along with the Predator Diet guy from a few months ago, and that’s saying a lot.
[quote]johnflower wrote:
A squat is a squat, it doesn’t get better by doing some other leg exercise.[/quote]
This is one approach, but Louie Simmons and tons of other successful lifters would disagree.
When you start stalling at lockout, I think you’ll come to a different conclusion.
This statement is simply wrong. People get stronger without getting bigger all the time, either on purpose (due to weight class restrictions) or accidentally (by fucking up their nutrition).
For future reference, this was debunked years ago as being an urban legend.
The real purpose of 6-pack abs is to get other people’s faces closer to your crotch. Know what I mean? Amirite broskis?
Like Ecchastang pointed out, the majority info in your library directly contradicts most of your views. Based on your approach to training, I thought you’d have mostly listed writers like Calvert, Jowett, and Saxon.
Your infatuation with the bent press has blinded you to one fundamental aspect. It originally was, and still is, a demonstration of strength, not a muscle builder. It was meant to be an “easy” way to get a very heavy weight locked out overhead and it does that primarily by using several large muscle groups in mostly static positions.
Most of the involved muscles don’t go through anything resembling a complete range of motion (concentric and eccentric) during a bent press rep. This static or nearly-static strength is exactly why you’re able to move so much weight during the lift, but it’s also why it’s a relatively poor muscle builder. If supporting heavy weights with reduced ROM was a terrific muscle builder, then 600-pound quarter-rep shrugs would build better traps, biceps, upper back, and lats than a 500-pound deadlift.
Grimek was a top-level Olympic weightlifter for years before ever competing in bodybuilding. Meaning, he competed in the freaking Olympics. An elite athlete like that not only has a natural genetic propensity for results, but has a very well established base of strength and muscle before pushing it further with bodybuilding-specific training. Sorry boss, but bent presses didn’t make Grimek Grimek.