DB Hammers Method of training

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        • Participant
          onk on November 17, 2004 at 8:45 am #10048

          When you follow his method of training, with a 4 day recovery. Should you do lower body workout the day after upper body? Or do them in the same day?

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on November 18, 2004 at 12:43 pm #34858

          I don’t think many people here are too familiar with his training methods. You might want to ask on his website. If you get an answer I’d be interested to here it.

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        • Participant
          delldell on November 19, 2004 at 12:43 am #34859

          I’m messing around with it now. Not all out, but just a basic WSB-ish split but with drop-offs instead of guessing sets and reps. The only differences really is there’s less volume than I’m used to and you get weeks off more often.

          Most people I’ve seen would do the upper and lower cycles separately. So not on the same day, although it might work if you had enough time between sessions, but probably back to back or day in between.

        • Member
          800prince on November 19, 2004 at 2:52 am #34860

          I can’t read DB Hammer articles. They make my head want to explode.

        • Participant
          delldell on November 19, 2004 at 5:22 am #34861

          I agree, most of the earlier stuff is ridiculous, but the newer stuff and Fichter “Consultation Member” stuff is pretty simple.

        • Participant
          onk on November 19, 2004 at 6:02 am #34862

          haha ya all i read is the general training and beginner ones.

          in his 4 day recovery method, are you suppose to not do anything at all in between?

          if only they have a forum on that site, this’d be easier =[[

        • Member
          800prince on November 29, 2004 at 12:34 am #34863

          He’s against active recovery. He talks alot about work capacity, but has no low intensity work. The thing I found most valuable from his site are the actual exercises. Some are very innovative, particualrly the differnet jumps. I’ll add some of them to my routine, but fit them in my way.

        • Participant
          onk on November 29, 2004 at 1:31 am #34864

          what do u mean by active recovery?

        • Member
          rice773 on November 29, 2004 at 5:02 am #34865

          [i]Originally posted by onk[/i]
          what do u mean by active recovery?

          Tempo, general strength, any low intensity work.

        • Participant
          delldell on November 29, 2004 at 5:29 am #34866

          I don’t think he/she/they is really against active recovery…Just that most people overdo it or turn low intensity into medium intensity. I’ve seen them mention using workouts in between sessions to hit the rotators, neck, etc.

          They use recovery during the workout with massage and also ice with eccentric work.

          The work capacity is built by training to dropoff with the “prime method” (basically set a session max, then do sets at a certain dropoff percentage of that max).

          I’m not really sure why they’re against tempo, but you wouldn’t want to mix CFTS with DB. They made some ridiculous claims and had a delivery style that turned alot of people off, but I think they’ve presented some interesting information. Every person that I’ve heard that tried the program has had good results.

        • Participant
          utfootball4 on July 9, 2006 at 10:06 am #34867

          they do have a forum: https://dbhammer.proboards43.com/index.cgi

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