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How did YOU work out today?? Yes..YOU!

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Binge Artist said:
It's sort of a variation of the well established "German Volume Training".

Ideally I would have wanted to keep the volume high, but use a wide variety of exercises.

Unfortunately, there aren't too many exercises that isolate the thighs.
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Ya, as I am growing, I'm starting to get what you said before - it going to the glutes and hips as opposed to thighs. I switched things up over the past few weeks, where on leg day I hit the leg extension and the hammstring curl machines before squats and/or leg presses. It hasn't yet put a negative effect on my squat/press numbers, but I have been adding 5 pounds every few sessions to the extensions/curls. Haven't seen any actual mass difference, but again it's only been a few weeks.
 
Redleader said:
Ya, as I am growing, I'm starting to get what you said before - it going to the glutes and hips as opposed to thighs. I switched things up over the past few weeks, where on leg day I hit the leg extension and the hammstring curl machines before squats and/or leg presses. It hasn't yet put a negative effect on my squat/press numbers, but I have been adding 5 pounds every few sessions to the extensions/curls. Haven't seen any actual mass difference, but again it's only been a few weeks.
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A lot of girls like the "football player" ass, but given my frame (long torso, short legs), it makes me look more like a baboon or cave man.

I'm beginning to think that squats, once you have a decent mass base, should be treated more like a "power/strength" movement (2-4 reps), and that mass development should be centered around the isolation exercises.

If one were to apply this reasoning to the upper body, then the bench press would be used as a power movement, and the chest mass would be built by things like the pec deck.
 
I think you're just looking for an excuse to do less squats ;)

I don't know. From the start, I forced myself to squat a bit beyond parallel and bring the leg press down as far as safely possible. But then it seems like I'm generating all of this power from my midsection, and am on cruise control by the time I get almost back to starting position, thus minimising how much of an impact my thighs have. I honestly think if I cut my ROM in half, and did "sissy squats" and such, I would feel the burn a lot more in my quads. Or just go REALLY slow on all of my reps, but that would come with either mentally feeling defeated by having to lower the weight, or risk getting trapped in the leg press.

But ya, as for thigh isolation exercises, I cannot really think of anything other than extensions and curls. Maybe some "interesting" looking work involving cables.

And this whole football player ass I am developing is costing me a fortune on new pants! Given how short I am, it's not exactly easy to find jeans around 33x29 which aren't too urban looking. I never knew bodybuilding would teach me how to hem and sew clothing!
 
LMAO---squats DO complicate the process of buying jeans...

"Um, yes, I'm looking for something in a size 32 with a 'balloon seat'".

As much as I hate to admit this, my old lady's size 10-12 jeans actually fit me fairly well...
 
Binge Artist said:
On the other hand, depending on how strong you are...anything that "slips in", should the soap be dropped, may well be broken off...
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If only the hip adductor machine's chair could recline, it would be perfect for this....(an attempted simulation is all you need to catch my drift ;) )

Okay I'm seriously done.

On behalf of us all, I apologise to this thread, Healty Living and its staff, God, Allah, Vishnu and a hoast of others for what has transpired over the past hour ITT.
 
I've met a few math people into powerlifting, but not really bodybuilding. Mostly were from former USSR countries, and kind of saw powerlifting as part of being a strong person ("Strong in mind, strong in body.") And then you get the hotheads that want to go into high-end finance, but they tend to be bicep/chest types. But by and large, the math people that do get girls get them by fixing their computers, not to fulfill the line - being their (quite sexy) derivatives, and thus lying tangent to their curves.
 
Chris Langan is an interesting man. I don't buy that his IQ is quite that high, but nonetheless someone who gives physical and mental strength, as a combination, a good run for its money.

Haha, ya. I track my sets/reps, and daily protein/carb/calorie/fat intake, also my bodyweight, BFP and BMI with statistical methods and such. Again, goods and bads. I *am crazy*.

Guy at gym: So how you coming along?

Redleader: The variance of the 7-day moving average of my bodyweight, BMI and BFP as a weighted-average stochastic process over the past two months is decreasing concavely, which when compared with the same statistic run on my caloric intake, has a small alpha level at a high confidence interval against the null hypotesis that I am gaining more fat than muscle.

Guy at gym:....So can I get a spot?
 
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Yeah, I wouldn't put his IQ much over 140 (as if "ultrahigh" scores really had any tangible meaning, anyway), but I certainly wouldn't doubt his claims of a 500 lb bench.

As far as tracking all that "emperical data"...I was the guy who could never get a basic physics experiment to come out correctly, so that's kinda out of the question.

But I do have a strong hunch that big compound movements should be used to develop strength, which in turn will enable one to use heavier weights for higher volume on isolation movements, which in turn will build mass.
 
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