How to just maintain muscle?

[rez]

i was really getting bored w my workout and my PT gave me a high reps all-body-parts on one day workout for 3x p/w. Its definately more interesting that my split...but will it do anything for me? or is it more of a bludge...im still working hard - but its faster w higher reps.
Have you guys done this type of training before with successful results?

 

[SouthernBell]

rez,

I never done more than 12 reps per set I usually hang around 10 reps. I also have never worked out all body parts in one day, I work out one body part per day. My training sometimes gets redundant too but when it does I just change my exercises or the order in which I do them.

Let us know how this works for you.

love

 

[wilson6]

The lower body fat issue depends upon estrogens and androgens. Increase androgens and you'll decrease lower body fat, especially when dieting and it is easier to preserve upper body muscle. I don't think anyone who has juiced on this board will argue that and it is well supported by the tranny and post-menopausal literature with hormone (estrogen or androgen) replacement.

Ladies, am I correct, is it easier to achieve total body balance/proportion in both fat and muscle when juicing than not?

The only thing that not working your legs will do is make them smaller fat legs and if you can't flex fat, that isn't going to help much with balancing the legs with the upper body.

Any type of overload will lead to an increase in contractile proteins. To suggest that bodybuilders per se have more non-contractile tissue than powerlifters because of the way they train is questionable. Now if they're loaded on anadrol or T and are retaining a tanker car of water, then that is a different issue.

Low rep work prepares one for greater strength for numerous reasons, in addition the larger the muscle, the greater the mechanical disadvantage.

Take a chick with the arms the size of a number 2 pencil. If you compare her relative strength (force/CSA) to that of Dorian Yates, you may find her to be stronger in a relative, but not absolute fashion than Dorian.

W6

 

[SouthernBell]

W6, well juiceing (ass you call it ) has become an option for me. But The only possible way I would even consider using AAS is if It would be Anavar, and the to my dissapointment it is very hard to find...

I have never even considered not working my legs I was just wondering to what extreme I should go. Max effort or just sticking around my comfortable weights? I worked legs on Monday and I am still a bit sore today and this is just doing a weight that I am comfortable with this is not lifting to failure . Should I just stick at this weight until I feel no response?


love

 

[wilson6]

I'm not suggesting you use AAS (anabolic-androgenic steroids), just highlighting what we know and why some use them.

With regard to working legs, only you can make that determination. You may try a course of lower reps for a couple of months and see how your legs look. Then perhaps higher reps 15 - 20 and assess the results.

What works for one, doesn't always work for another. But high or low reps isn't going to change the fat distribution.

W6

 

[SouthernBell]

W6, I know you were not suggesting that, believe me it was already an option well before you brought it up ...

I guess trial and error wil be my only way to figure out what is right for me, I just don't to sacrifice much muscle anywhere.

But without a try, I guess I will never know

thanks W6

love

 

[Nonerz]

I was a catcher in Softball, Constant up and down squating

me too! My legs are...let's just say they aren't petite! I guess that's what all that squatting will do for ya!

 

[SouthernBell]

I just wish the rest of me could catch up!!