Joined 18th August, starting September 1 ("project Des")

[access]

Good to see you gaining your health back Des excepting now for this liver issue. Hope you can find the cause for that.

 

[iggy]

get better soon bro!

 

[OMEGA]

T-Nation.com | Midrange Partials for the Best Pump of Your Life

Interesting article which basically says muscles main force can be exerted in middle 2/3's of movement - in other words, as per omega's rep execution insruction

Not sayin T Nat did this

but we have had some interesting folks sign up then vanish

seemingly they wanted the info
one of them was a writer for a mag...........hmmm

 

[desmond]

Not sayin T Nat did this

but we have had some interesting folks sign up then vanish

seemingly they wanted the info
one of them was a writer for a mag...........hmmm

Haha Omega - well, as annoying as it is, plagiarism is a powerful form of flattery.

Any net PT will always be prone to this - hence, the incentive Omega one day for your own personal training book

 

[access]

Interesting...

 

[desmond]

Awakening sleepy muscles

One thing I think I have learned from the Omega program (although perhaps I'm just arriving at this hypothesis on flimsy grounds) is that knowing your body, and knowing what muscles you are using in a movement is key.

My former mind muscle connection ("MMC") was shit; its now much better but still needs improvement.

For me, a key thing has been to activate "sleepy" muscles. For whatever reason, I use to do chins/pullups, with no mind muscle connection, lift pretty heavy weights and have no back. Now I MMC, can feel the exercises smashing the back and it grows.

Omega: there are still some muscles I have very poor MMC with, tricpes being the main one. For whatever reason, I can't feel push downs overhand grip for most of the exercise, especially on the negative. I've been practicing the motion without weight to see whether I can flex the tricep throughout the motion and I can't really do it (this is how I developed back MMC).

My MMC is not great for hammies either but I have been practicisng unweighted SLDL and RDL to try and improve this and I can see this being OK in a few weeks.

I'm at a loss. My triceps never responded at all on Omega and I think this is the cause. I'm hoping to rectify this before rejoining the program quite soon - do you have any suggestions? Anything would be great - otherwise, I'm doomed to crap triceps. They look better in my profile than real life I can assure you.

My bisceps too didn't really respond to omega even though I felt them - they didn't ever get stronger or bigger, except in the first couple of weeks. I can't work out the cause this time, but am working on it ATM.

I'm thinking of doing the bi curls either one arm or elbows against the wall next time, and doing my best to ensure the brachialis isn't doing the job (I've done some reading which suggest that this can in some people perform the role the bisceps should be doing, so I'm trying to watch out for that now and dropped the weight)

My lower back suffers from similar MMC issues - but I think I can still feel it well on hypers, I just can't say flex it if I'm sitting or not extending the top of my back.

 

[access]

Des, how are you doing Tri's? I mean what is the pushdown movement your using. I have found that actually forcing the bar down more vertically engages my tri's better than like a rounded type movement you see most do on tri's. Rather than pivot from your elbows moving the straight bar in a semi circular motion up and down (as you would say doing lying skull crushers) try forcing the bar more vetically down so the path the bar takes is more up an down than around and your decreasing the size of the arc considerably (virtually non existant arc now) if your understanding me. Keep your elbows in to your sides still but really force the bar downwards and flex at the bottom.

This is a little unconventional I know but for me I seem to respond much better with this range of movement on this specific exercise. I can go a little heavier in weight also than doing the more traditional way but provides me with an excllent pump.

 

[OMEGA]

Re: Awakening sleepy muscles

One thing I think I have learned from the Omega program (although perhaps I'm just arriving at this hypothesis on flimsy grounds) is that knowing your body, and knowing what muscles you are using in a movement is key.

My former mind muscle connection ("MMC") was shit; its now much better but still needs improvement.

For me, a key thing has been to activate "sleepy" muscles. For whatever reason, I use to do chins/pullups, with no mind muscle connection, lift pretty heavy weights and have no back. Now I MMC, can feel the exercises smashing the back and it grows.

Omega: there are still some muscles I have very poor MMC with, tricpes being the main one. For whatever reason, I can't feel push downs overhand grip for most of the exercise, especially on the negative. I've been practicing the motion without weight to see whether I can flex the tricep throughout the motion and I can't really do it (this is how I developed back MMC).

My MMC is not great for hammies either but I have been practicisng unweighted SLDL and RDL to try and improve this and I can see this being OK in a few weeks.

I'm at a loss. My triceps never responded at all on Omega and I think this is the cause. I'm hoping to rectify this before rejoining the program quite soon - do you have any suggestions? Anything would be great - otherwise, I'm doomed to crap triceps. They look better in my profile than real life I can assure you.

My bisceps too didn't really respond to omega even though I felt them - they didn't ever get stronger or bigger, except in the first couple of weeks. I can't work out the cause this time, but am working on it ATM.

I'm thinking of doing the bi curls either one arm or elbows against the wall next time, and doing my best to ensure the brachialis isn't doing the job (I've done some reading which suggest that this can in some people perform the role the bisceps should be doing, so I'm trying to watch out for that now and dropped the weight)

My lower back suffers from similar MMC issues - but I think I can still feel it well on hypers, I just can't say flex it if I'm sitting or not extending the top of my back.

lots of good stuff here will get ot it soon

 

[desmond]

Re: Awakening sleepy muscles

lots of good stuff here will get ot it soon

Thanks - I'm hoping to get back on the program properly in 2 weeks.
I don't think I'm inhibited by the pins and needles problem at the moment, although I'm not totally cleared.

Omega, ATM I'm working on trying to improve my mind muscle connection ("MMC") a lot on the areas where its not great - triceps, left biscep, hamstrings (particularly left), lower back. Basically, I want the MMC to be as good as the areas where its at its best (other areas).

I'm kinda doing your routine ATM, except I'm adding many sets to these problem areas, not to failure so much, but just to improve MMC.

I noticed today doing a lot of tricep sets that my biscep got sore, which may explain why I'm struggling with triceps exercises as my bis may be too stiff and affecting the movement. Will try streching the bis to a large extent before next tri workout.

 

[desmond]

Will start logging again on tuesday - officially resume project (Omega has me on different supps, as creatine seems to cause me problems, and I think they will arrive tues/weds next week).

Will take photo about 2 weeks in, and every 2 weeks after. Need to wax my chest first however lol