Arnold worship

[ICBM]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5D1hbRnSfBw

Man, I watch this thing again and again. The guy is amazing. Listen to what he says carefully and you can apply it to anything not just body building. I have been working about four to five times a week for about five years. I'm not trying to put myself over by saying it, but I'm pretty chiseled compared to where I was when is started out. My problem is I am an ectomorph(hard gainer in gym speak). I peaked at mass around 185 and its lean as hell but with what I have been doing I should be at least 200. So I listen to arnold. I borrowed the encyclopedia of modern body building by him and its been amazing. I was wondering though, if any FAN posters are gym rats and if you are into the cult of Arnold. Swapping advice, tips etc could be beneficial to any of us. To that end, I will share first:

I've learned that the criticism of muscle confusion (changing weights abruptly between sets) is largely unwarranted. It does work. It shocks the muscle. I knew about the shocking principle as Arnold calls it, way before I ever started reading or watching Arnold's advice. It has been used for decades if not centuries. I've heard it called the step principle. Starting with say 45lbs on flys and hit eight. Then drop em and grab 35's and hit eight to ten. Then 30. 25 etc. When you hit equity and get failure at the same number of reps on the lowest weight as you did at the highest your pecs will be spasming and shaking.

So what do ya got Fan?

[Kevin Hamilton]

I kid; I use free weights at home but that's about the extent of it. As Frank Costanza says (two Seinfeld references in one post), "I worked out with a dumbbell yesterday, I feel vigorous!"

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Put that cookie down.

[Deleted]

[AwamoriRock]

But yes, I've used some of his Blueprint workout stuff and found it useful, but I was doing a mix of that and Cutler's living large during my bulk.

[ICBM]

Dec 19, 2014 0:01:53 GMT -5 AwamoriRock said:

But yes, I've used some of his Blueprint workout stuff and found it useful, but I was doing a mix of that and Cutler's living large during my bulk.

Thanks for sharing one of his most famous quotes.

I myself have a problem bulking. I had started looking into supplementing protein intake to help. I didn't know how much
i should take in, so I asked bodybuilding dotcom and they almost overwhelmingly give the 1.4gm for 1km of body weight. Meanwhile Arnold says he lived by 1gm for 1lb. A much higher amount. Now I'm not a competition body builder so I am not doing Arnold's method, but if convenience eating finds me forced to intake slightly over 1.4 to 1km, I don't sweat it. I just make sure I really burn out the next workout then rest it a full day or three.

[Push R Truth]

[Goldenbane]

Dec 19, 2014 8:27:32 GMT -5 ICBM said:

Dec 19, 2014 0:01:53 GMT -5 AwamoriRock said:

But yes, I've used some of his Blueprint workout stuff and found it useful, but I was doing a mix of that and Cutler's living large during my bulk.

Thanks for sharing one of his most famous quotes.

I myself have a problem bulking. I had started looking into supplementing protein intake to help. I didn't know how much
i should take in, so I asked bodybuilding dotcom and they almost overwhelmingly give the 1.4gm for 1km of body weight. Meanwhile Arnold says he lived by 1gm for 1lb. A much higher amount. Now I'm not a competition body builder so I am not doing Arnold's method, but if convenience eating finds me forced to intake slightly over 1.4 to 1km, I don't sweat it. I just make sure I really burn out the next workout then rest it a full day or three.

*Snotty condescending voice* Pardon me, sir, but I believe THESE are his most famous quotes!

[eDemento2099]

ICBM: Do you even lift? /Joking

I was a hardcore gym-goer in early 2013 - partly because I needed to get my mind off something bad that happened, partly because I wanted to tone my body, and partly because I had nothing better to do but read, which I'd been doing for years with little social or material wealth to show for it. The result of my commitment to the gym is that I had people who didn't know what I was up to tease me about being on steroids because they were so impressed by how jacked I was. The fact of the matter was that I was too poor at the time to even afford protein powder, so steroids were definitely out of the question. I only stopped going to the gym because I had to get on with work and making a living. Doing nothing but work since then has reduced me to my physique to a trim yet modestly strong one.

I didn't aspire to be like Arnold (I mainly went to the gym to swim, but I also did weight training and some cardio), but he is an inspiring figure. I read a biography on him because he accomplished a hell of a lot in his life, defied the odds, and did things that were socially unacceptable and/or were told he should not/could not do. For being his own man and not letting society hold him down and mold him into a mediocre schmo, Arnold is an inspiration and a hero of mine. It doesn't hurt that I am a fan of prank phone calls and have made several calls using Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboards.

Going back to the topic of gyms, why is it that the term 'gym rat' has a positive connotation, whereas a the term 'ring rat' has a negative one? A 'gym rat' is one who spends so much time working out that he or she practically lives in a gym, and a 'ring rat' is someone who is basically a groupie in the wrestling business. It seems backward that both kinds of people are called 'rats' despite the contrary connotations invoked by the terms.

[Sam Punk]

So true.

[Sephiroth]

I gave up trying to bulk some time ago. I look more to Franco Columbi and Frank Zane for inspiration.