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12-08-2009, 12:50 PM
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If you could do it all again...
If you could start over from the beginning, with the knowledge you have now, how would you approach training?
I would have overhead squatted and done kettlebell swings, nothing else for a good while except play sports.
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12-08-2009, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Gymnastics / rings upper body, weight (mostly DLs) + sprinting lower body.
That's what I'm going to be doing now anyway so...
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12-08-2009, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 3,600
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Not signed up for the Jack LaLanne gym at 16 that was full of machines only and found a place that would teach me to DL and Squat only.
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12-08-2009, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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If I had been able to grow up here instead of California, train with my Coach as a freshman back in high school, then I could literally have had the same base of strength development in the Olympic lifts from the same coach that trained up Lance Fry.
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12-08-2009, 03:24 PM
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From the beginning of my involvement in weight training: Go on Starting Strength right away for as long as necessary then Texas Method to build a strong strength base, without screwing around with XF, fat loss, etc. etc. etc.
If I could have completely redone history: trained on the olympic lifts with a real coach from the age of 12
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12-08-2009, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 2,642
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I probably would have learned out to lift properly instead of followed some bro split of the week, injury proofed myself properly and still be playing rugby.
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12-09-2009, 04:34 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Stretched my hamstrings.
Found an OL coach and learned the lifts.
Not wasted my time with all the team sports. Skipping baseball would have left my right shoulder a lot better and not put so much mileage on my knees (I was a catcher).
Stuck with more gymnastics (the first couple times I tried it, I hated doing all the push-ups, sit-ups, etc...I find that humorous now).
Definitely would have run track instead of baseball in the winter.
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12-09-2009, 05:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Charleston, SC
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Just for arguments sake, what age are we talking about?
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Pain is your companion, don't go hide from it."
-Kelly Starrett
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12-09-2009, 10:14 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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I'd assume "if you could do it all again" means just that. All of it.
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12-09-2009, 12:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 66
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gavin Harrison
I'd assume "if you could do it all again" means just that. All of it.
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I'd assume the word 'it' refered to strength training, in the context of the post on a weightlifting message board. |
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