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Sack upright rows i would stick with shrugs ime and imo.

On another note, I've been reading up on DoggCrapp training for the last two days and my mouth is watering at the prospect of trying it, so much so that I have actually gone and written out my top 3 exercise choices for each body part and planned the routine I would do, and I've been practicing the extreme stretching as well. Probably getting a bit ahead of myself here: I read that Dante said you should have 3 years lifting experience before trying something like DC, but on the other hand I also read one of his posts on the intensemuscle website and he just said that trainers should have at least a "basic knowledge" of training before trying it. I can't really see what kind of harm it would do for someone like me just because I haven't been training for 3 years yet? Or is it just that I wouldn't be able to get optimum gains from it because my muscles/joints, etc. aren't properly developed to resistance training yet?

I reckon one day in the next week or so I will just try a practice DC workout to see how it feels, and see if I can handle it!

Icemansoldier


Sack upright rows i would stick with shrugs ime and imo.

Yep I agree. And TBH I find Deadlifts hit my traps fairly hard anyway, so I'd say doing a few sets of Shrugs for isolation would be enough, no need for two isolation exercises really!

Never heard of it, off to google....

CitizenKane

Icemansoldier


Sack upright rows i would stick with shrugs ime and imo.

Yep I agree. And TBH I find Deadlifts hit my traps fairly hard anyway, so I'd say doing a few sets of Shrugs for isolation would be enough, no need for two isolation exercises really!

Yeah deads hammers your whole body haha amazing exercise, yeah a few sets on shrugs would do the job mate no worries. Bye bye upright rows haha

Icemansoldier

CitizenKane

Icemansoldier


Sack upright rows i would stick with shrugs ime and imo.

Yep I agree. And TBH I find Deadlifts hit my traps fairly hard anyway, so I'd say doing a few sets of Shrugs for isolation would be enough, no need for two isolation exercises really!

Yeah deads hammers your whole body haha amazing exercise, yeah a few sets on shrugs would do the job mate no worries. Bye bye upright rows haha

Yep, good riddance that's what I say!

Wait till you see someone come on here and state its the best trap mass builder where would we be then haha lol

LOL. Although tbh the only reason I tried that Shrugs/Upright Rows superset today was because I read in IncredibleBulk's journal that that's what he does when he wants to bring up his traps, LOL! But I guess the point is, it ain't gonna add much mass to your traps if it tears your rotator cuffs first!

James M


Never heard of it, off to google....

Have a read of these mate:

http://dc-training.blogspot.com/

https://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/how_to_build_50_pounds_of_muscle_in_12_months

CitizenKane


LOL. Although tbh the only reason I tried that Shrugs/Upright Rows superset today was because I read in IncredibleBulk's journal that that's what he does when he wants to bring up his traps, LOL! But I guess the point is, it ain't gonna add much mass to your traps if it tears your rotator cuffs first!

Haha lmao you read he does it and look at the size of him lol yeah better being safe than sorry i say.

Icemansoldier

CitizenKane


LOL. Although tbh the only reason I tried that Shrugs/Upright Rows superset today was because I read in IncredibleBulk's journal that that's what he does when he wants to bring up his traps, LOL! But I guess the point is, it ain't gonna add much mass to your traps if it tears your rotator cuffs first!

Haha lmao you read he does it and look at the size of him lol yeah better being safe than sorry i say.

Nah I'm bigger than IB, I know better than him....... LMAO

I missed my Pull session last week, so needless to say I woke up with doms EVERYWHERE this morning! My traps, hams, biceps, lats, glutes, lower back, forearms, and rear delts are all in absolute bits, even my abs are in pain! It's a good pain though!

CitizenKane

James M


Never heard of it, off to google....

Have a read of these mate:

http://dc-training.blogspot.com/

https://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/how_to_build_50_pounds_of_muscle_in_12_months

Interesting read mate.

CitizenKane

Icemansoldier

CitizenKane


LOL. Although tbh the only reason I tried that Shrugs/Upright Rows superset today was because I read in IncredibleBulk's journal that that's what he does when he wants to bring up his traps, LOL! But I guess the point is, it ain't gonna add much mass to your traps if it tears your rotator cuffs first!

Haha lmao you read he does it and look at the size of him lol yeah better being safe than sorry i say.

Nah I'm bigger than IB, I know better than him....... LMAO

hahaha lmao! haah

DC is definately an interesting concept, unfortunately I just cant get my head around it

Would be interesting to see how you get on with it.

No.13


DC is definately an interesting concept, unfortunately I just cant get my head around it

Would be interesting to see how you get on with it.

I agree it is fairly f.uckin complicated alright, took me a while to get my head around it too! But it actually makes a lot of sense once you get it (which I think I do at least...)

I'm extremely tempted to try something like this in the near future so watch this space...

Legs & Shoulders - 5/12/09

Squat
90kg x 7 (+1)
90kg x 6
90kg x 5 (+1)

OH Press
52kg x 8
52kg x 7
52kg x 5 (-1)

Front Squat
52.5kg x 8 (+2.5kg)
52.5kg x 8
52.5kg x 7


Arnold Press
18kg x 10
20kg x 10 (+2kg)
20kg x 7


Standing Calf Raise (Smith)
100kg (+2 second negatives) x 14
100kg (+2 second negatives) x 14
100kg (+2 second negatives) x 12
100kg (+2 second negatives) x 10

DB Front Raise
9kg x 14
9kg x 14

Core/Abs

Sicilian Crunches
8kg x 20
8kg x 20
8kg x 18
(Read about these in this article and thought I'd give them a go, they're f.ucking hard!)


Decent session all round, happy with everything except for the Shoulder press, not sure exactly what happened there! I predict my legs are going to be in pieces tomorrow. Also my infatuation with DC is demonstrated by my use of negatives on the Calf Raise, which gave me such a burn, felt great.

Nice increases mate

On another note, I looked around the weights room today while in between sets and at one point I noticed that EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the place was doing something completely stupid/wrong. I mean everybody. There was a guy squatting with the worst form I'd ever seen, pretty much bending over completely and then swinging his lower back upwards to get the weight up, there was loads of ridiculously skinny guys doing those forearm wrist roller exercise things, saw two lads who did nothing but bicep exercises the whole time I was there and they were there before me, prob did around 30 sets of bicep isolations and nothing else (and needless to say they had tiny biceps), saw some guy deadlifting with an arch in his back that was comparable to the hunchback of notre dame, saw 3 lads doing the obligatory "half ROM bench press" and/or shoulder press, and finally saw one lad who was about half the size of me attempting to do skull crushers with the same weight that I use for them: he struggled for a few minutes to get the weight into place and then after one "rep" he got trapped under the bar and had to get his mate to lift it off him.

AWG started a thread in General about being a 'big fish in a small pond' or vice versa, and I have to say it looks like I've become a big fish in a small pond in my gym, but I think that says a whole lot more about the smallness of my pond than the bigness of my fishiness! With the exception of one or two bodybuilders and a handful of powerlifters, plus a few rugby players, the place is full of absolute morons!

There was a guy squatting with the worst form I'd ever seen, pretty much bending over completely and then swinging his lower back upwards to get the weight up

Sure it wasn't a goodmorning?
I train in my dining room/kitchen atm, I AM THE FISH!!