Have y'all read the The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
It seems like a good book, but sometimes things he says cancel out what he's said later in it.
It says if you use the basic training level work out, to stay on it for 3-5 years until you build up suffecient mass to go to the next level. But it also says else where to change it up every once in a while so that you continue to grow.
It also says to go heavy on of the four major lifts once a month. So that would mean something like: First week go heavy chest on chest one day that week. Because you hit each muscle twice a week with two days rest in between.
Second week go heavy squat
Third week go heavy clean and press
Fourth week heavy dead lift
OK, so if your supposed to change it up how often? A friend of mine says every 10-14 days another 10-14 weeks.
Also, if you change it up, drastically like from all free wieghts to all machines, or just the order that you hit the muscles in, or what? Please help :yellowcon