When did you make your best gains (except from the beginning)

**manwitplans** · 01-21-2009, 11:46 AM

- When you trained heavy and to failure?
- WHen you trained long workouts?
- When you trained intensive (short rest periods, pump, and all that)
- When you trained somewhere in the middle?

When did you make your best gains? These are just mere examples, just pile it on if you made better gains doing something else, cheers

**Dukkit** · 01-21-2009, 11:53 AM

hmm. volume training. moderate rest periods. heavy weight. low reps

made alot more gains when i actually started doin legs every week instead of every few months. LOL

**Jfew44** · 01-21-2009, 11:53 AM

By switching it up. 3-5 reps with longer rest for a month, 8-12 for another with shorter rest. 1x/week bodypart training then 2x/week. It's all about making your body guess. Overall though, best gains I've made was when I went from 1 1/2 hour workouts with back/bis, chest/tris, ect, to 45 min-1 hour workouts doing 1 bodypart a day.

**Dukkit** · 01-21-2009, 11:55 AM

oh and when i cut sex back from 2-3 times a day to once every other day. been doin that since christmas and my lifts are at all time highs. (even higher then when on cycle) and ive gained 5 lean pounds all natty

before that. i couldnt gain shit and i always felt drained and weak

**manwitplans** · 01-21-2009, 12:30 PM

Good to get your opinions guys, keepem coming

**dehydromethandrotren** · 01-21-2009, 02:02 PM

recently when I actually kept track and TRIED to get stronger, I have been getting both size and strength results. About 15-25lbs increase on my lifts every week for the last 2 weeks. Knock on wood, its goin good.

***D7M*** · 01-21-2009, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by dukkitdalaw

hmm. volume training. moderate rest periods. heavy weight. low reps

made alot more gains when i actually started doin legs every week instead of every few months. LOL

yah, I completely agree with this. When I started lifting I was dumb and just did upper body. Once I got my wheels up to speed, everything else fell into place

**xavier_888888** · 01-21-2009, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by derek7m

yah, I completely agree with this. When I started lifting I was dumb and just did upper body. Once I got my wheels up to speed, everything else fell into place

X2 bro. I start to gro big when I started doing legs.

**manwitplans** · 01-21-2009, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by dehydromethandrotren

recently when I actually kept track and TRIED to get stronger, I have been getting both size and strength results. About 15-25lbs increase on my lifts every week for the last 2 weeks. Knock on wood, its goin good.

Yep, that pretty much relates to me aswell.

Originally Posted by derek7m

yah, I completely agree with this. When I started lifting I was dumb and just did upper body. Once I got my wheels up to speed, everything else fell into place

I have always trained the whole body, but I just kept on pooring on weight, long rest pauses, chatting with my buddies, and so on (in the beginning), but I still grew, you will grow in your first 6 months no matter what though...