Principles Continued

[Phil]

Principles Continued
By Charles Staley





Your Complete Video Guide To Escalating Density Training...

[nitehawk710]

What seems to work best for me is a simple 5 X 5 program. Full body workouts, supersets, and stop short of failure. I get to the gym as often as I can, lift as much as I can without causing too much pain, and try to keep making progress. When I have DOMS, I take a couple days off until it heals.

I like clean & press supersetted with chins, bench supersetted with bent rows, and squats ss w/ deads. I might only get each exercise once a week. That's my weak point, IMHO.

My goal is simply functional strength and looking good.
Matt

[Martha Eble]

After reading the article on Your Operating Systems I knew right away the moment my paradigm shifted!

Here's mine: I'm not an athlete, strong or fit. As a female my chocies are with classes like cycling, turbo kick box and aerobics. But I couldn't keep up in the classes especailly the choregraphy stuff. A little I'm too old to do this mixed in.

So I started out with the above and bodyweight functional exercise, balance exercises so I would learn to balance before picking up a barbell according to the certified person training me. One day I saw myself in the mirror in my pink Nike shorts out of sync with the class laughing thinking there is someone else in this body of mine and it's not in classes !

Consequence: I did lose weight and body fat. After that I shifted into another pardigm that brought me here. I don't like the classes. I want to do more weights and if the trainer wouldn't go that way I would find a way.

Overall the above was not a bad start for a person who hadn't exercised with committment in years. What's great about thinking about this process of my system is I then after this initial start went back to knowing I'm not strong and made a decision to get strong. After reading an article by Charles about pull ups I had a desire to accomplish a pull up and went on to find the Bed and Barbell. I went to learn EDT I liked the combining the exercises, goals to break your PRs, and I could do on my own figuring out the exercises. My desire to be strong has taken me into weightlifting. I'll use this method of looking at my operating system to figure out my nutrition now. Thanks Charles and Phil. By the way I didn't know that the focus at the Bed and Barbell would be on weightlifting I spent one day on EDT or I may not have went. Now I'm training for my second meet on May 10.
Martha