Anyone read Schwarzenegger's Encyclopedia

[littleflex]

Anyway I bought Arnold Schwarzenegger's New Encyclopedia to modern bodybuilding and so far I am half way done reading. Me and my work out partner last week started using Arnold's begginer level two training program and I was just wondering if anyone else has tried his programs or what they think of them. So far I think they are great and I am seeing some reasults, granted its only been 2 weeks. Anyone let me know what you guys think???

 

[SAGAT]

cant say that i have, but.....if its working for you....draw your conclusions

 

[Blood&Iron]

If it's working for you, stick with it. That said I think most of the routines in Arnold's Encyclopedia will lead to gross-overtraining for an average person. Training every bodypart 2-3 times a week is usually counterproductive, unless you're just getting started with weights. The beginner routines aren't too bad, but they get progressively worse as you move to intermediate and then the advanced routines The competition routine is insane IMO. The routines are typical for the 70's. Most bodybuilders today have indirectly, whether they realize it or not, been influenced by the ideas of Arthur Jones, Mike Mentzer, etc. and train each bodypart once a week with a much lower volume of work than Arnold performed. There are exceptions, like Lee Priest, but one-hour workouts, hitting each bodypart once a week have become pretty much the norm--and with good reason.

 

[maxellyz]

i have it but havent read it yet

 

[Exodus]

i have probably read the whole thing twice.

really.... i have had the book for almost 3 years now.

good stuff........ a lot of the diet part is outdated.

pretty much all of it is.

but the training things are good.

the one workout i like the best is what he called his power workouts.

its where he would do bench press doing a set of 20
then 10
then 5
then 3 then
1-2 reps for 5 sets.
then 5 sets of 1-2 for incline
then 5 sets of 1-2 for flies.

yeah........ that one hurts.

i mainly like the bit on competion....... there is a lot of good info there.

X

 

[maxellyz]

i have probably read the whole thing twice.

really.... i have had the book for almost 3 years now.

good stuff........ a lot of the diet part is outdated.

pretty much all of it is.

but the training things are good.

the one workout i like the best is what he called his power workouts.

its where he would do bench press doing a set of 20
then 10
then 5
then 3 then
1-2 reps for 5 sets.
then 5 sets of 1-2 for incline
then 5 sets of 1-2 for flies.

yeah........ that one hurts.

i mainly like the bit on competion....... there is a lot of good info there.

X

You ever do that bench workout? if so how did you like it?

 

[freshr1]

I have a signed copy .. wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole! Could be worth something one day.

 

[Jvesti1234]

yeah well that training program works just great for someone on juice like arnold was since he was 15.

I did it, It cut me up and made me very vascular

the abs workout worked

I don't think any of it made me stronger

 

[Grizzly]

Ok, I was going to let it slide. I even hit the back button, but, i just can't do it. Don't give me that shit about juice. Granted, one cannont possible attain a pro-caliber physique without it, but it doesn't magically grow muscles even if you're training improperly. Hey, dude, you know what I heard. I heard that if you eat some D-bol and shoot some test you can eat a candy bar and put on 20lbs of muscle. Better than that, you can lift the 20lbs DBs and still weigh 300lbs just because steroids automatically make you big even if you don't know shit about training or diet.

 

[johnny1111]

I too think the routines will lead to over training and the Diet info is out dated. I read it for info on how to do specific exercises and mostly for inspiration. -john