This is especially true on chest and shoulder presses, because there’s a tremendous temptation to bounce the weight to cheat up a few more pounds.” Really heavy weights almost always lead to some form of injury. That way, my muscles are unable to adapt to a specific routine.” I constantly play with exercise selection, the order of exercises, the body angle with which each exercise is done, poundages, sets, reps, pace, everything. “I never use the same training program twice. With upright rows, it’s essential to get your elbows as high as possible.” I sometimes do barbell upright rows, but I prefer to do these with a cable, because I feel a stronger squeeze at the top. “I do shrugs with a barbell or dumbbells, but I feel like the best exercise for my traps is the upright row. I usually start with biceps and finish with triceps, but sometimes I superset bi’s and tri’s.” “I prefer to work biceps with triceps, rather than hitting them on separate days. Then I rested for two to three minutes and did the next giant set. I did all four exercises without resting. It’s no wonder, since I gave them a lot of work. Even at 6'5", my abs were always among the best in any contest I entered. They’re the single best exercise for pecs, and they’re great for shoulders and triceps.” “Do benches in at least every other chest workout. Then I go to the gym and put 100% into my workout.” I try to erase all negative thoughts from my mind. “I spend time at home before my workout thinking about what I have to train, the exercises, how I want to feel as I train, etc. If you do, your strength level will be too low for you to do justice to the rest of the workout.”
“You can’t let yourself get too fatigued from a single beyond-failure set-at least not near the start of your workout. Those are the kinds of images that drive you through your hardest workouts.” From an early age, I wanted to be as big and powerful as the Hulk. Coming up I looked up to people like Steve Reeves, Larry Scott, and Sergio Oliva, and I read a lot of comic books: Superman, Batman, and, of course, the Fantastic Four, with the Hulk. “Everyone remembers that scene in Pumping Iron when I’m doing shoulder presses and shouting, ‘Arnold!’ over and over. I like higher reps on pullovers: 10 to 15 per set and sometimes as many as 20.” “The dumbbell pullover is excellent for tying the chest and back together, hitting the serratus, and stretching the rib cage. You could get a tremendous full-body workout with just squats, bench presses, and barbell rows.” Get stronger on these basic lifts, and you’ll grow. “Focus first on the exercises that work the largest muscles and several muscles together. That gives me both a better stretch at the bottom and tighter contraction at the top.” My grip for all my chest presses is only slightly wider than shoulder width. “On chest-pressing movements, I see a lot of bodybuilders use an excessively wide grip. In celebration of what was and what could’ve been, Lou serves up his 30 best tips for hulking mass.
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He’s the best over-6'2" bodybuilder of all time, and if he hadn’t spent 17 years off posing stages, he may have collected a mantel full of Sandows. At 6'5", he towered over competitors, but whereas most tall bodybuilders have trouble filling out, Ferrigno carried his mass proportionately with pleasing symmetry.
In fact, the future not-so-jolly green giant first broke the 300-pound barrier in the off-season at the age of 20-an unprecedented muscular body weight in the early ’70s. And when Dorian Yates was collecting Sandows at 265, Lou was 315. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was winning Olympias at 235, Lou was 275. Before and after he was the Hulk, Lou Ferrigno was bodybuilding’s ultimate behemoth.
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