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APRIL 2006 Hello, It's been about a month
since the Arnold
Spring is always a busy season for me, everyone wants to get in shape for summer so I'm busier than usual training with clients. I like it because it motivates my training, but I also enjoy training alone because then I can employ some unique exercises that I cannot normally do with clients, since they don't have the specialized equipment I use as a substitute for exercises I can no longer do. I always learn what equipment a client has access to for his training so the workouts we do together involve this equipment. As I've grown older there are certain exercises I cannot perform due to injury. My motto is "If it hurts don't do it". This has come to include most barbell movements except wrist curl. Over the last few months I've had to exclude overhead dumbbell presses at both high and low angles of incline. Instead I'm doing presses on my modified Soloflex machine with weights attached and incline presses on my modified Hoist V-1 machine. Injuries can slow you down but they don't have to stop you from making progress if you can find a good machine substitute for those free weight exercises that cause joint pain. I've just completed the Spring 2006 issue of Building the Body Quarterly and it will be mailed out to subscribers within the next few weeks. It contains a full report of what went on at the Arnold Classic (from my point of view) along with articles about: Developing ambidexterity in your training and sports; My goals for spring training (I'm shooting for peak condition this year in two stages -- stage one in a few months for my 64th birthday, and my peak condition for the year sometime in October); How injuries can be caused by poor form due to lack of mindfulness by Sensei Ken O'Neill; How 3 amino acids L-glutamine, L-arginine, and L-tryptophan enhance health and bodybuilding progress; The physique competition at Arnold Classic won by Dexter Jackson (second year in a row, I approve); How and Why I started bodybuilding: how early training experiences led to later competitive wins; A unique way to deadlift to widen and thicken the back and shoulders; All about the hormone HcG by David Leonardi, M.D. If you are reading this you probably support the cause of sensible bodybuilding, where proportion and definition are not ignored in favor of monstrous size and muscle mass. Subscribe to Building the Body Quarterly and help this cause, it's a platform for honesty free of paid advertising like most of the muscle mags on the market today. Subscribe now and you will receive an extra issue, 5 magazines instead of 4 for $20 a year, $21.40 in California, $25 in Canada and Mexico, and $30 overseas. Thank you and best of luck in your training. FZ ARCHIVE TIPS: TIP OF THE MONTH HOME PAGE |
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