Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Your Workouts Suck

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:52:48 +0000

In reply to Owen. Yep, I think they will be subject of a future article.

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:52:26 +0000

In reply to Oliver. And that's perfectly ok, Oliver. The most solid rule in fitness is: do what works for you.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:25:56 +0000

In reply to evilcyber.

I stick to, I believe that good routines can/do show gains week in week out, year in year out, even decades. I am all for variety within succesful routines but I don’t strictly believe that “reaction is trained into a habit and gets weaker overtime” – that still seems to support “muscle shock” and “body gets used to a workout”

By: Owen

Owen — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:17:13 +0000

Good points. I too love DB rows, but even though my form was good, it seemed I could always use far more weight when compared with barbell rows(close to 50KG compared with around 75-80KG), which lead me to concentrate on the barbell version.
Nutrition, workout frequency and sleep all deserve more of a mention too IMO.

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:52:24 +0000

In reply to HerrKaputt. I think so too!

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:51:22 +0000

In reply to Oliver.

Well, I don’t believe in “muscle shock”, but rather see what I described under #4 as a form of conditioning, where the reaction is trained into a habit and gets weaker over time.

I also couldn’t have increased weight, which is what I actually wanted, as it only resulted in poor form and much too soon failure.

However, some people do actually never experience what I described there, so everyone’s mileage might differ.

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:44:32 +0000

In reply to Rubby90. Thanks, Rubby!

By: evilcyber

evilcyber — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:44:16 +0000

In reply to ASM. You are right - that's a very important point.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:55:43 +0000

I am a complete skeptic as to point number 4. The only reason a workout stalls is if you have not been adding the weight. The whole concept of muscle shock, the body gets used to a workout philosophy, I believe to be spurious – as spurious as the next big thing in training – although the next big thing that makes any sense is Functional Training. Push/Pull/work the heads at different angles – not a lot changes. And buy some resistance bands to get greater movement, say like on vertical chest flyes allows you to really fly instead of halting to prevent injury.

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:01:35 +0000

Ec, db rows with a moderate weight gave me absolutely nothing(well, I did up the weight a couple times in forever), but 5×3 has been immensely useful in quite the short time. If I remember right the wolf had recommended them about that heavy as well. Worth looking into methinks.