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You will start by training once every four days on A4 workout protocol. So if you start on a Monday, that means you wouldn't train again till Friday. After Friday you wouldn't train again till Tuesday, then Saturday, and so forth once every four days. And if a scheduling problem arises so that you can't make it into the gym on day four, take off one more day and train on day five also.
Once you've been with the program for three weeks or so, start inserting an additional rest day or two, even at random. If you do, you should never hit a sticking point, and here's why. As you grow stronger week to week, as you will with this program, that is, as you lift progressively heavier weights, the stresses on the body grow progressively greater too, until finally, unless you do certain things like add extra rest days.
The stresses will reach a critical point, they'll constitute overtraining, and the first symptom will be a slowdown in progress. And if you continue with exactly the same volume and frequency protocol, there will ultimately be a complete cessation of progress. Continue inserting the additional rest days with greater and greater regularity until you are only training once every five days. Then start inserting an extra rest day at random 1/6 day.
Continue inserting the extra rest day or days with greater regularity until you're eventually training once every six to seven days. Once the fundamentals of intensity, volume, and frequency are grasped, this issue becomes the most crucial one of bodybuilding science, that as the weights grow progressively greater, the stress is also grow progressively greater and they must be compensated for.
If after a number of months utilizing the baseline program while training once every six to seven days ceases to yield meaningful results, switch to the consolidation program. Some may want to have the workout program with the additional points in their training journal to take to the gym rather than the accompanying booklet. If so, write down the words day one close to the upper left hand corner of your paper, and then write the word chest.
Next to it, the number one exercise. Number one for the pecs will be PEC deck for six to 10 reps to failure. Now from here on you won't have to write the words to failure as that is a given and six to 10 reps is merely a suggested guideline. There is nothing magic about the number 10. If you reach 10 but you see you might go to 13 reps to failure. Don't stop at 10, go to 13 and at the other end if you see by Rep 3 You won't reach even 6 reps, but only four or five. Don't stop and reload. Get four or five. The next time you'll likely get 6:00 to 10:00, and if you don't have access to a pec deck then flat bench, dumbbell flies or cable crosses may be substituted directly underneath. Exercise one write out the word superset and directly underneath that the number two exercise #2 for the pecs will be the incline press.
Preferably on a machine such as the Smith Hammer, Icarion, or Nautilus. If you don't have any machine for the incline press, you may perform either regular free weight barbell incline presses or incline dumbbell presses. Exercise #2 should be performed for one to three reps, not 6 to 10. One to three reps, and make a parenthetic note next to the incline press. Use a fairly close hand grip.
Your hand should be slightly closer than shoulder width. What should be wider? Not your hands, but your elbows. Flare your elbows way back away from your torso toward your ears, and you'll feel all the stress go into the pegs. Contrary to popular opinion, a wide grip is not the best way to develop pegs, and for beginners, a super set means two sets, one set of each of two different exercise, where the performance of 1 is followed immediately by the other.
As with pec deck super setted or followed immediately by incline press. All right, now write down the word back still under day one. Write down the word back and then the number one itself. Exercise number one for the back will be close grip palms up, pull downs 6 to 10 repetitions. close grip palms up, pull downs. Directly underneath that write down the number 2, which will be regular style, not stiff legged.
The regular style deadlift is a very productive exercise. The most productive exercise of all in fact, because it stimulates so much muscle mass, everything on the backside of the body, from the Achilles tendon to the nape of the neck. However, there is a bit of a risk factor here not seen with most other exercises, so listen carefully. If you have one available and you are strong enough, use an Olympic bar with a £45 plate on each end of the bar.
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