hello dark, im interested to start on this HVT as well, as soon as my exams are over on the 8th of december. just wondering, don't your muscles get tired after doing your first exercise? i'm sure you are doing it at the best weight you can do at 3-4 sets of 10-15 reps, so shouldn't the muscles be too worn out to execute the next few other exercises?

i don't know most of the exercises you are doing, so i'll search for them at bodybuilding.com or youtube after my exams, but in the event that i can't find descriptions of that particular exercise, will it be ok to ask for guidance here?

also, i noticed that you didn't do decline bench press in your last chest workout... is it advisable for me to include that in my exercise, as my lower chest is really shapeless and still needs to be worked on?

i'm planning to skip the gym for a week before starting HVT... is that necessary, or am i advised against it?

damn, today's a bad day for me. i blacked out in the gym lol. i've been doing standing shoulder military press on the smith machine for 75lbs(total weight on both sides) for so many weeks that i've lost count of the actual number. can't seem to improve on that, but out of shame i forcefully tried doing 80lbs today. first set was ok, but on the second set, halfway through the 3rd rep, i blacked out. i don't know exactly what happened, i just remember myself doing the 3rd rep, and then next thing i know, i woke up on the floor. stood up wondering what happened, realised my head hurts and my vision was blur. apparently my specs were flung a distance away from me when i hit the floor.

took a short rest, realised i have suddenly developed a trauma against 80lbs standing military shoulder press, and ended up doing 3 sets x 50lbs x 10 reps instead T.T

by the way, i have one more question to ask. what is the general rule for breathing during exercise? i usually hold my breath through out a set when doing bench presses and shoulder presses, and i take a fresh breath for each rep i do on deadlift and pendlay's rows. as for dips and pulll-ups i breath out when exerting my muscles, and breathe in when returning to starting positiong. am i doing it right? what is the correct breathing pattern for different exercises?

sorry for the long-winded post, but i feel i could really use some help from someone more experienced than me. thanks, and nice poundages you have there. they're seriously insane lol, in a good way.

wow, you replied so damn well so much so that i'm suddenly free of most if not all of my doubts. btw, i blacked out on the smith. T.T as for the chest, mine is the typical skinny guy chest, lacking in all areas - the inside, the outside, the upper and the lower.

as for the PR, if i understand correctly, my first exercise does not always have to be fixed to one particular exercise, instead, i may put whichever exercise that i want to achieve a PR on for that particular session as the first exercise, correct? i hope i got that right...

i'll stick to doing the same exercises i've been doing for 3 more sessions. after my exams are over on the 8th, i'll start on HVT ASAP (i need to first find out what most of the exercises really are - most of them sounds alien to me as of now). do you think it will work for me if i do the same exercises as you do (maybe with some slight additions or omissions of certain exercises)?

thank you for the guidance, very elaborate and helpful

that bit about the 55kg just made me feel that what i thought was the impossible all along can actually be made possible. O_O

that was the first time i black out in my life. cool experience, felt like i was waking up from the dead.

im reading your journal everyday now, so keep it up and thank you =) will most probably start HVT next tuesday-saturday, then monday-friday all the way. for now, my next two sessions in the week will be rojak-style though.

eggs > chicken meat? lol

yo, nice post! i finally understand what superset means haha...

when i begin HVT in a few days' time, i am very sure that my muscles will feel extremely sore the next day after. since i'm supposed to hit the gym 5 continuous days per week, lets say if i get extremely sore from monday's chest training, will it affect tuesday's back training? and if it does, how so? also, will it have any adverse effects on the previous day's muscle group (in this case chest), since its still halfway recovering?

GVT sounded do-able until you mentioned throwing up. lol

4 word reply... LOL thank you.

the 3 days per week routine, is it just as effective or less effective as compared to 5 days per week? might have difficulties fitting 5days a week once college starts again =(

darklight, u have no idea how thankful i am to you lol. seriously, thanks !! hope you will continue to guide us newbies on basic bodybuilding knowledge. my respect goes to you.

oh, by the way, for smith machine shoulder presses, i've seen people doing it behind the neck... i usually do it from the front, and standing. (i've seen people do it sitting, but i've never tried it before). what are the differences between standing/seating, and behind/front? which would be more benefiting for body posture and shoulder shape? i'm curious, how do you do yours?

This post has been edited by wallpaper89: Dec 6 2008, 12:52 AM

thanks for the advise. i'll do it sitting from now on then =)

hello! argh, i was actually looking forward to having a peek at your chest and back workout...

btw, i'm doing back tomorrow and i'm planning to do wide-grip pulldowns, seated cable rows, and one arm dumbbell rows. the fourth exercise would have to be a vertical back workout, but from the list of your exercises, all the 4 recommended vertical exercises are basically just pulldowns, with slightly different positions.

may i know what's the difference between doing the pulldowns with a wide, close or hammer grip? and not forgetting behind-the-neck pulldowns as well... thank you!

oh and i found this on BB.com: is this any good?

Full Range-of-Motion Lat Pulldown

for arms day, 3 biceps and 3 triceps exercise, how many sets do you usually do per exercise? 4 sets seem quite a lot to me..

This post has been edited by wallpaper89: Dec 9 2008, 04:33 PM

haha alright. leaned something new today. i'll go for close grip then, to balance out the wide grip thanks!

i think your partner's form could've been better, but i'm not one to talk lol. i can only do 160lbs x 5 ahhaha, compared with his 225lbs T.T

what's SLDL btw?

darklight, what's the function of that waist strap thing you wear for your exercises? i've seen some people in my gym using it too.

thank you for the reply =)

while you're still online, may i ask a question or two about shoulder exercises? (its my first HVT shoulder day tomorrow )

i've seen the video a few pages back on seated rear delt raises, and you mentioned something about the "sucking d***" position (what a name..). i recall seeing an exercise somewhere about that position, except that instead of lifting the dumbbell like a reverse bench press, it says to lift the dumbbell as if i was doing a reverse chest flyes. i plan on doing that tomorrow for rear delts, but i'm not sure if it even really works the rear delts or not.

as for the side lateral raises... i plan to execute it like this, that form looks better than the others i found at BB.com...

ok, i just did a search on BB.com and there is indeed such a thing as a reverse flyes ... except that it's not done on a sucking d*** position.

LYN gave me constant page load errors seconds before this post o_O

thanks man, u're like my sifu lol

bob's deadlift looks painful. 719 pounds!!

bodyweight presses? congrats! =) and thanks for the link too =)

show that picture to your friend. it might motivate him hahaha

This post has been edited by wallpaper89: Dec 10 2008, 11:30 PM

keep it up and your shoulders will love you more

Your right shoulder had problems, but yet you're still able to lift oturageous weights don't overwork yourself man lol.

wow that's seriously a lot of deadlifts in one day.... didn't know you had a Deadlift Day lol xD

That is one hell of a great link. Very detailed. Thank you! Will try it out on Tuesday!

Hello darkie! Is carbs necessary for postworkout, or should I just ditch it and feed myself more protein instead?

Okay, thanks, I'll keep the carbs in that case.

Was actually thinking of reducing carbs and increasing protein intake. I guess I'll just increase them both. Hope my stomach can take it haha.

This post has been edited by wallpaper89: Dec 31 2008, 04:46 PM