Whirlwind

Praise the Lord, Tyler! Wow!

Just looking at your pic, it takes time, determination, motivation, and a strong faith to achieve what God has blessed you with!

Praise Him! Whoo-hoo! You're looking great! What's your shoulder routine? You got some mean-looking steaks there!

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Tyler1

Thanks Whirlwind! I've taken a diff. approach to my routine in the last 2 mos. less bulking and lighter weights.

I really switch my routines around...it stays interesting for me then. Here is an example of what I do for shoulder: I start with 55lbs db's and get as many sets of 10 usually 2-3 , drop the weight to 45 lbs. and do as many sets of 10 usually 2-3 drop the weight again and repeat until 30lbs. db's feel like 100lbs. This is a drop set routine, with a little rest bewteen sets.

I also do bent over lat raise, and side/front lat. raises on shoulder day's

But this week I used 50 lbs db's and did 4 set of 10 one armed shoulder presses, and then side raises.

SaviorsGear

Tyler your physique is amazing!! Once Im done with my bulking and eating everything in sight, I will start my cutting phase and hopefully shoot for how you look now. Its amazing how God has allowed us to build our bodies to adapt to the weights, I love it! Such great info to help me along in this thread, keep it coming guys!!

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Tyler1

Thanks for the compliments fella's. I'd like to hear any new or old stuff you're trying in the gym, and I use supp.'s but I don't pretend to be any kind of expert.

One thing I'm working on is trying to find out how the people "lift for Christ", or incorporate their Faith into their lifting.

Any insight is appreciated.

SaviorsGear

I can tell you how a buddy of mine lifts for Christ. His name is Kevin Dowd, and he is part of Team Impact. Here is the link : Team Impact He is an amazing and loving man, and loves Jesus. He is of course an extreme version of lifting for Christ, but its still very awe inspiring.

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Whirlwind

It's a blessing when someone so strong admits his weakness to the Lord, and the Lord gives him more strength where it really counts. Such a blessing, thanks for sharing that!

Do you guys read Exercise for Men Only? There was an article about doing drop sets...and attaching bands to the weights for varied resistence. It sounded a little hoaky when I read it...but I really want to try it after thinking about it. The author (PhD) said that this is a great way to overcome plateus, where you have a hard time gaining or going beyond a certain weight.

Pretty interesting stuff after I thought about it. I dunno...I'll try anything once, hee hee!

God bless!

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Whirlwind

Hey, Tyler and Savior...I was wondering. With guns that big, do you guys still experience DOMS after training?

A friend told me that something was wrong, because I still get (and love to have) DOMS. He said that a lifter shouldn't have DOMS quite so often, if he's working out regularly.

(this friend is an occasional friend that I see in the gym about twice a month.)

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Tyler1

I don't read the mag. I don't think I've ever seen it. Muscle&Fitness's current issue has an article on adding bands to the weights, or what I'd like to try, using chains attached, to add weight as you lift it up.

About the DOMS I've read it's not good to get, but everytime I lift my legs I get it, and my chest is the same way but not as bad as my legs. I have a couple of friends using the P90x dvd's and they get DOMS all the time. It's kinds funny, the first thing out of ther mouth's when I see them is how sore they are, every time. I've tried the dvd's and I can see why.

Tyler1

Thanks for the link I haven't got a chance to check out fully yet. I remeber see'ing a broadcast of one of these shows, it was good.

SaviorsGear

Whirlwind, the answer to DOMS is YES!! Like you, I rather enjoy the soreness and think of it as doing a good job breaking down the muscle. When my workouts aren't followed by any soreness and I am truly sad. I would have to say I feel like Ive accomplished more when Im a bit sore, not hurting, just sore.

Probably all psychological but whatever works right.

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