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exercises

  1. Best Exercises

    Your best exercises, the ones that give you best bang for your buck, or that you recieve the best stimulus from. Chest Back (upper) Back (lower) Shoulders Thighs (quad) Thighs (ham's) Biceps Triceps
  2. Worst exercises

    Your worst exercises, the ones that give you grief, or you recieve nothing at all from them. Chest Back (upper) Back (lower) Shoulders Thighs (quad) Thighs (ham's) Biceps Triceps
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    Honest Question

    Now im relatively inexperianced compared to the majority on there when it comes to the gym. What I see a lot in my gym is people that do 4 or 5 different exercises for the same body part. Like 4 different variations of cable curls. I see this as pointless but then again I have little experience...
  4. Herschal Walker: NFL superstar who trained with bodyweight exercises

    here is the 1982 story I read many years ago on Herschal Walker who mostly did bodyweight exercises for his strength training. So says Georgia's Herschel Walker, and you best believe - 10.04.82 - SI Vault
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    Does anyone know about Metabolic Precision?

    I'm new to all this and I've heard a lot of stories re the pre comp lead up training etc which can totally wreck your body (& health). I've also met quite a few people who swear by Metabolic Precision. Apparently there's a free workshop this week in Melboure CBD and I'm wondering if I should...
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    Exercises For Killer Biceps!

    Exercises For Killer Biceps! If you want to build killer biceps, then you must try something special. You need to perform specialized exercises for your biceps. Here are some power exercises for your killer biceps – Barbell Curls: it is one of the best exercises for great biceps. It is a form...
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    Big Arms Workout: Biceps & Triceps Exercises

    Big Arms Workout: Biceps & Triceps Exercises This arms routine workout focuses on stimulating growth in your inner and outer biceps and also your triceps. You should perform this routine 2 times a week, with 2 days rest between each workout for maximum recovery and growth. For muscle...
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    Major Exercises & Commercial Gyms

    What are some exercises we perform here at ausbb that you rarely see performed at a commercial gym? the obvious: --Squats --Deadlifts
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    assistance exercises

    Now that I have finally joined the gym after training at home for ages I have split to a four day routine. More than anything else just to change things up. Squat day Bench day Deadlift day Press day I was wondering what assistance exercises I should do for all these. I am currently doing...
  10. Side deltoids - best exercises?

    Looking to correct my shoulder imbalance - I got weak side delts. What are the best exercises, aside from wide grip military press, behind the neck presses, or dumbells with them held out to the side? All of the these hurt my shoulders pretty badly. What do you guys think of this vid? - side...
  11. Rippetoe on unilateral exercises

    T NATION | Rippetoe Goes Off Interesting article. As someone who currently has a groin injury and CAN'T squat, I don't really agree with that much in this article. (FWIW can't BSS either :p) And Bret Contreras's podcast re this article is here. Strength of Evidence Podcast: Episode 7.5 ...
  12. Favourite exercises for thickening

    What's everyones favourite exercises for thickening / mass on the back and chest?
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    Compound exercises

    How about we put together a list of compounds that would be good in everyones workouts. Squat Dead lift Bench Press Over Head Press
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    Holding your breath during exercises

    Who else holds their breath during Deadlifts, Squats, Bench Press? At which point in the movement do you inhale/exhale and are there other exercises where holding your breath would benefit?
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    Exercises that you do differently

    So today I was messing around in the gym and sat on the pec dec machine backwards as if going to rear delts but set the handles so they where about half half way between myself and the machine,closer to me as where delts setup pretty much the furtherest setting away. Puting it half way more...
  16. Ab Exercises

    Hi all, I've been doing PTC's beginner program for about 5 weeks now, pretty tough but having some nice progress I think! I want to train abs on my off days so was wondering what some of you guys do to exercise abs? I train at home so don't have some equipment so I guess what you think the...
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    Convict Conditioning Exercises Image

    Convict Conditioning exercises / program. (found on reddit) http://i.imgur.com/zw13Y.jpg
  18. Who's had good results with higher reps?

    I'm interested to hear stories from anyone who feels they've made good physique improvements on any particular body parts, using a higher rep range......say anywhere between 12-20 or beyond. I clearly recall Fadi saying once that he made the best gains on his back when he did higher reps for...
  19. Supplemental Exercises after Compound - progress only in the compound?

    Is it common to only progress in compound movements if you have a program that follows them with supplemental? e.g. For chin ups I've progressed from 9 to 13, but I'm still only curling 45kgs for reps of 6 AFTER the chin ups. I assume because my biceps are stuffed after chins (they certainly...
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    change in your training program?

    How many times do you change your training program for any given muscle?