By now you should be in your second week and wanting to back off the 80% x 6 x 2 light session cause you just can’t fact it any more. You feel your only option is to go and get the latest copy of Men’s Health magazine cause you can’t be a real man. At this point I will give you some real self-confidence cause I know you can be a strong man. You know, feeling tired out is something you are just going to have to live with and it certainly isn’t an excuse to have time out and lay in bed all day playing with your todger. You can only make any judgement on your efforts if you are finishing your lifts and if you are you on your way to getting the expected results.
You can rearrange the remaining exercises over the week at whatever set and rep scheme you prefer. In the case that you were to specialise in overhead press, you could consider choosing to squat + press on Monday, chin + press on Wednesday and bench + press on Friday. The best thing I like about this is that you can keep the poundages for the other lifts at around 80 - 90% of maximums and it doesn’t matter which rep range I am using.
Should you be able to bench 100Kg for 12 reps, you would have to be able to sets of 80-90Kg for 10-12 reps in the bench. Another important tip is to rotate the days you use for assistance work so that you never perform similar assistance to your main lift on a “heavy” day.
For example if your specialisation lift is the overhead press then rotate your bench press so that it always falls on one of the 6 x 2 days, not on one of the more intense days. This makes sure that your heavy overhead pressing does not make benching impossible. The same would apply if squats were your main lift and you were deadlifitng for assistance work. You would not squat heavy and deadlift on the same day, as your deadlift would most likely not be worthwhile. The name of the game is maintenance when it comes to your other lifts.
After 6 weeks you can change the specialisation lift and start again, or move back to a more typical bodybuilding routine and use your newfound strength to pack on even more muscle with slightly higher rep ranges. Or if you’re like most people you will totally disregard the outstanding strength gains you just made and go back to training leg extensions once a month because training my way was “too tough”.
I don’t like to sound pretentious but it’s a fact. Great methods are too quickly rejected by people who just can’t reach outside or their own comfort zone for more. It is quite clear to see around us that not everyone has got massive muscles and that’s cause it takes big commitment big time.
I have been asked by a few friends on what results can be expected on this sort of routine as far as strength gains are concerned. I can achieve a guaranteed 7.5 - 10% on a lift each time I suffer, plus big increases on repetition work after the program.
I shall also like to reveal some interesting proven results from this very program with a deadlift going from 200Kg to 220Kg and reps with 180kg from 6 to an easy 11 at a bodyweight of 93Kg. It’s excellent for a six week program and I actually plan to shoot for 180Kg x 20 reps by the end of this year and achieve this by increasing my limit strength repetition so the lifting increases automatically.
We all have our differences and I’m not quite Mr Universe, but I can assure you that there are a great number of bodybuilders in the world who could better my results. You really just have to kick yourself and get doing new routines and ones that hurt. If you come across any good one just e-mail them to me, Mick Hart. Check out the MickHartBlog which is there for those who like suffering.
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