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File: 5bc47a896123a9e⋯.jpg (47.36 KB, 867x361, 867:361, lifting chart 2.jpg)

e20437  No.135024

1) Is it fair to say that I should avoid accessory lifts until I'm an intermediate/advanced lifter? In other words, should I focus exclusively on squat/bench/military/deadlift/clean/chinups/pendlay?

2) Is there anything wrong with squatting and deadlifting on the same day?

Pic only tangentially related.

436b0d  No.135027

Nobody knows what your ultimate goals are. The first question is bullshit unless is can be framed in a larger context, but I will at least say that squatting and deadlifting on the same day is normal. Knowing that you are a beginner is not enough to help you.


840675  No.135029

>>135024

Farmer carries, tri extensions, curls, lateral raises, rear delt flies and cable woodchoppers are good to add.


79f95e  No.135034

>>135024

1depends on your goals

Figure that out first.

2 no. Most programs have you do them on same day.


7ac826  No.135052

>>135027

>>135034

Sorry about that, I'm going for strength, not aesthetics, weight loss, etc.

>>135029

Thank you.


94f62b  No.135054

>>135052

If you’re doing strength then yeah. Skip the iso lifts. Follow starting strength or 5x5. They’ll have you do the big 6 compounds.

Of course then you’ll have the power lifter physique, a T. rex with all gut and no arms.


3d948c  No.135068

>>135024

You can go ahead and get great results by only doing 6 or so major compound lifts. After a while, though, you'll probably notice that you have muscle imbalances or that you aren't getting very good progression anymore. At that point, you probably should add in a few sets of isolation.

Imbalances usually lead to bad posture and injuries, so it's best to mitigate them as soon as you see them rather than letting them develop.

Here's a bit of advice that I wish someone gave me when I started lifting: whichever compounds you hate (and probably do the least or with the least intensity) you should do isolation for, even as a novice lifter, so long as you aren't overtaxing that muscle group. For me, this was rows, and now I'll probably always have a stronger chest than upper back.


12e21e  No.135100

>>135054

>>135068

Thank you both.


29c7e5  No.135288

>>135024

It's fair to say that some schools of thought, mostly those based on Rippetoe's training philosophies, claim a focus on a half-dozen or so major barbell lifts is probably best for beginners who are interested in pure strength training or athletic training. This period should last until they learn good form on those lifts and complete a linear progression to find some maxes for low-rep sets. This process may be as short as three months or as long as nine months, depending on the person.

On the other hand, many programs for athletics, such as BFS, will start even middle school kids on a program that includes a variety of accessory lifts from the very beginning. Of course, with an athletic program, all of the accessories are usually major compound movements anyways. On the third hand, a beginner program for Olympic Weightlifting will usually include a lot of accessories from the start, but again, most of those won't be isolation movements.

Usually your first question is asked by faggot wannabe bodybuilder types whose primary interests is "big guns" and who want to do supersets of five different types of curls from the very beginning.

For a person who is interested only in training for general health reasons, or for size and appearance, it depends. While barbells are great, very time-efficient and effective, those with lesser goals and lesser interest in learning may be able to train completely on machines, and for a size routine, machines and dumbbells alone can be reasonably effective.

Starting Strength and various ripoffs of it tend to deadlift after squatting and tend to moderate the volume of the deadlift down to a single top set to compensate for doing both on the same day. Some other programs such as BFS will deadlift on a separate day and do multiple working sets. It basically depends on the program and its layout. Nobody HAS to deadlift at all, unless they're interested in powerlifting competitions. It's a great lift but someone with non-PL goals can do without the full deadlift from the floor.

>>135052

Going for strength, then "squat/bench/military/deadlift/clean/chinups/pendlay" is a good list.

Pullups are better than chins for your rotator cuff and should be at least alternated with them, if you do only one version, then pullups are the one. Dips are good to add. If you're interested in athletic qualities, try working in some snatches or rack jerks and plyometrics.

>>135054

>muh t-rex

Bullshit on so many levels.

First off, the idea that the upper body needs to be so highly developed comes from faggots and the jews who run bodybuilding.

Secondly, it's a simple matter to just stick to the big lifts and add one or two exercises a session for the upper body, or a drop-off set or two at the end of the 5s for the upper body work. Just do 2x10 press for the last move on the bench 3x5 day and do 2xmax dips as the last move on the press 3x5 day and voila! Don't forget that Starting Strength already has you doing chins and pullups on a regular basis.

>>135068

>muh imbalances

Again, bullshit.

There are only six main body movement patterns. Horizontal and vertical upper body pulls and presses, hip hinge dominant bending, and knee bend dominant bending. The following program covers all of them and will lead to zero imbalances:

>Workout A: Squat, Bench, Row

>Workout B: Deadlift, Press, Pullups

You'll notice if you actually look at the Starting Strength program from the books that the Squat, Bench, Press, Deadlift, Clean which works most of the muscles from the row, Pullups and Chinups alternating, Glute-Ham Raise, and Back Extensions are the exercises of the program. Upper body pressing and pulling in both directions are BALANCED. Squatting every day while using a variety of posterior leg movements leads to BALANCE.

SS only appears to be "leg heavy" because LIFE and athletics is leg heavy, and because faggot jews like to see big arms as a signal to find each other, and faggot jews run not only bodybuilding but the "health and fitness" magazine industry, which started as fapping material for them.


d65851  No.135293

While it's true that the gays and jews do run the industry, large legs have generally been seen as a female trait because that's where they store their fat. Since the time of the greeks the ideal male figure is an upside-triangle while the females have been an upright triangle.

Squatting is more for your core than your legs. LIFE and athletics is more core heavy than it is leg heavy. Athletes tend to have slimmer legs because that's what happens to your legs as a result of endurance running.


29c7e5  No.135642

File: e18275a87c1a418⋯.jpg (76.88 KB, 736x1110, 368:555, pompeii hercules.jpg)

File: 7733ea46f167983⋯.jpg (118.17 KB, 867x1390, 867:1390, farnese hercules.jpg)

>>135293

You're full of shit.

Hercules never skipped leg day.

Pics related.


29c7e5  No.135643

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>>135293

Also not seeing big legs on Aphrodite.

Pics related.

Nah, it's curl and chest brahs that are building physiques for gay faggots.


29c7e5  No.135644

>>135293

>athletes slimmer legs

Anybody who browses pics of gridiron, baseball, hockey, etc. players knows this is bullshit.

I know of no sports that are based on core stiffness.

OTOH pretty much every sport uses the legs to jump, sprint (not endurance running, SPRINTING) to the ball or puck, or uses triple extension of the ankles knees and hips to throw a ball or swing a bat or stick.


424ec5  No.135646

>>135293

>large legs have generally been seen as a female trait because that's where they store their fat.

So are large breasts but you still see tons of meatheads trying to get their man rack as huge as possible

muscle=/=fat, you dunce

> Since the time of the greeks the ideal male figure is an upside-triangle while the females have been an upright triangle.

Other anon already BTFO your ignorant ass on this.. Having chicken legs and a jacked upper body was never considered aesthetic/powerful in any culture ever.

>Athletes tend to have slimmer legs because that's what happens to your legs as a result of endurance running.

No, maybe you look at pictures of marathon runners who only go on a flat surface and at a snail's pace. I'm XC runner and my quads are fairly joocy. To drive your entire body up through your legs on hills and soft terrain requires explosiveness and power (which requires muscle).

Stop trying to justify not training legs, you just come across as lazy and/or an idiot.


3d948c  No.135648

>>135288

It's not at all bullshit to claim that one can still get imbalances, even if they're doing equal volume for opposing muscle groups. I don't think that being squat heavy is an issue with major-compounds-only programs, and that's not what I was getting at.

Just because a person does five sets of bench pressing and five sets of bent over rowing doesn't mean that they won't have imbalances. The effectiveness of any particular exercise in developing both strength and size varies from person to person based on the way they're built in terms of skeletal proportions, insertions, etc.; how good your form is; how well each muscle responds to particular rep ranges, … I don't think I need to elaborate further for you to see what I mean. Some people even have natural imbalances before they start lifting, or have weaknesses that they could overcome with the right programming.

The way I see it, no matter what you plan on doing, if you do it long enough there is a chance that you'll find that your muscles don't respond the way you expect them to in at least one case. At that point, you can't ignore imbalances and weaknesses and you have to adapt your programming to make up for them one way or another.


722ccd  No.135650

>>135293

Male Greek statues have a rectangular torso, not an upright triangle. That's modern bodybuilding.




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