[Max Herklotz]

Well I’d for starters would just do 1-2 sets per exercises. Keep doing that for 2-3 weeks, watch your progress and how your body feels and adapt to either more or less sets based off of that.

[Max Herklotz]

A bit too much volume for my taste

[Max Herklotz]

Hey max , if you drop customer service an email , we will be able to help you pick out some pieces you want 🙂

Arthur please post in the forum section , my log isn’t a Q n a

Thank you, just did 🙂

[Max Herklotz]

There are two approaches to this:

1. the universal approach, those are basically the supplements that I recommend for ANYONE. Those include a Multi Vitamin, Omega 3, Creatine and Whey Protein. You could chuck in cluster or malto dextrin for your intra workout in order to get better performance but it’s not a must have.

2. the specific approach, those are the supplements that are tailored to your needs based off of your bloodwork. Here I still recommend the above but beyond that you can specifically work on the markers that aren’t in range yet with, for example, Vitamin D3/K2 which most people are deficient in.

I hope I could help you.

Greetings
-Max

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Hello Jordan,

sadly the “Sponsors” sub-category is closed for further threads/comments and the other categories also don’t seem fitting for this question, which is why I’m going to ask here:

Is there any way to get my hands on the clothing that’s stocked in the UK store ?
I’m from Germany and sadly not able to fly over to the UK but I really want to get my hands onto some of the pieces that are not in stock/are from old collections for me and my girlfriend. She has an upcoming birthday soon and her sweater which she got from some German sportswear shop just ripped apart so I wanted to get her a new one which is higher quality <- yours ;).

I’d also be willing to overpay for those Items, is there a way to get in contact with you ?

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03.10.24

Good afternoon gentlemen,
after consultation with my physiotherapist we’ve come to the conclusion that it could be a biceps tendon inflammation, therefore I’m currently only doing certain static holds for my tendon, some mobility exercises for my shoulder and cooling with ice in order to get the swelling out of the tendon. Those exercises and the cooling really helps, I’m feeling much better after a little worsening yesterday. No pain when doing pressing movements in the right position and also no pain when doing front raises. I still have to test this stuff out with heavier weight but at least I’m able to move my arm now.

Nevertheless he also mentioned that I could still proceed to crack on with the stuff that doesn’t hurt my shoulder/tendon so we’ll meet in the GYM later today 😉

Greetings
-Max

[Max Herklotz]

Hey Niall,
I just wanted to pass by and congratulate on this amazing physique that you’ve built.

Greetings
-Max

[Max Herklotz]

Hey Jordan, is there any way to grab hold of your playlist if you have one ? I really like the music of your choice to get locked in

[Max Herklotz]

Hey max ,

Hope glad your shoulder is feeling better . Maybe alongside trying to get blood into it why don’t you go see a therapist who can speed things up then we can get back to gainssssss land ..

Good Morning Oscar,

I didn’t really have the time to grab myself an appointment at the day of the injury or the day after, because I do workout pretty late and I had to get to my actual home which is in a really really small village with no physiotherapists around haha.

By the time I was back in the city my shoulder already felt that much better that I didn’t see the need. I’ve consulted with a friend of mine, who is a physiotherapist, on what I should do and it was basically the same thing as I was already doing… massage rest massage rest massage rest haha

I’ll do some lower body work today where I’m also going to see if my shoulder is back to 100%. I’ll do some really light rotator cuff stuff and decide on slowly tapping back into heavier territory after that.

Greetings
-Max

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30.09.24
I’ve injured my right shoulder on my previous Upper Day thus for I’m giving myself another Rest Day today. I have been massaging my shoulder with various creams etc. since Friday, the day after the Upper workout, and it’s already gotten a little better. I’ve had some trouble with my shoulder from incline pressing on that shitty gym 80 machine the week before, but I just ignored the pain and kept grinding hard on the following session, which was the neck breaker for me.

I hope y’all have a better day than me, keep cracking on
-Max

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Thanks a lot, I will swap the order around to what you suggested for a bit since that sounds very logical to me. I’ve also thought about adapting the order over the next few weeks so that I’ll find a sweet spot that perfectly suits my body on which I make the most progress.

[Max Herklotz]

Superb upper , upper A

I noticed watching back that last video posted that I’m still throwing the dual arm lat row too much , so back to single arm . If anything ever starts to lose its ability to maximally engage fibres , go single side

Single arm pec dec x 8

Atlantis shoulder press x 6

Granite chest press x 5

Granite tricep x 5

Dip machine x 7

Lateral x 5 x 4 x 4

Single arm lat row x 5 x 6 x 6

Upper back row x 7 x 7 x 6

Pulldown x 6

Rear delt row x 6

Rear delt cable x 8 x 7

Abs x 4 x 4 x 6 x 8

Could you briefly explain what would you do differently between upper back vs rear delt row if performed on the same machine?

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Well for upper back: move your shoulder blades.
For rear delts: keep em tight, no shoulder blade movement = no activation of the upper back

[Max Herklotz]

My warmups usually look like this:
I’m taking the weight of my first working set and creep up to it step by step.
As weight increases I chose smaller steps for the increases.
70-75% weight for 8-10 reps
80-85% weight for 4-5 reps
90-95% weight for 1-2 reps
95-100% weight for 1 rep – this one is usually only for Legs or on exercises where I move a lot of weight.

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Yeah 2 hours is completely okay with me but my Upper 1 for example always tends to go towards 2.5h which is why I’d rather balance that out with my Lower sessions since they are rather “short” at 1.5-2h so that I have both sessions right around that 2h mark

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I can’t edit my post at the moment so I’ll just put the rest into this reply:

I’m currently taking about 2-2.5h to finish my Upper session and around 1.5-2h to finish my Lower sessions. I would like to shorten/even out the time I take on Upper days. At the moment my Upper/Lower exercises look like this:

Upper 1:
Pec Deck x7 x10
Incline Chest Press (machine) x6 x11
Single Arm DB Row x7 x10
Chest Supported T-Bar Row x7 x10
Cable Front Raises x6 x12
Lateral Raises (machine) x6 x10
Reverse Pec Deck x7 x9
Single Arm Preacher Curl (machine) x7 x10
Over Head Triceps Extension x6 x8

Lower 1:
Lying Leg Curl x7 x11
Hacksquat x9 x11
Leg Extension x8 x11
Bulgarian Split Squats x8 x8
Adductor x7 x13
Calve Raise x6 x14

Upper 2:
Pec Deck x7 x10
Flat Chest Press (machine) x7 x11
Lat Pulldowns x7 x12
Upper Back Row (machine) x8 x10
Shoulder Press (smith) x6 x10
Upright Row x6 x10
Rear Delt Row x7 x12
Cable Hammer Curls x7 x11
Dips x8 x10

Lower 2:
SLDL x6 x10
Lying Leg Curl x7 x8 -> taxed me some reps because of the SLDL (where should I put that?)
Leg Press x9 x11
Leg Extension x8 x11
Adductor x7 x13
Calve Raise x6 x14

I’m doing 3-4 sets of Warmups for every exercise (mostly 3) and have like 1-2 minutes of rest in between sets (sometimes a little longer on Lower days after doing the heavy heavy shit). What would be the most efficient way to cut time or is it even beneficial to cut time ? If it’s not beneficial or even negatively impacting growth I’m willing to overlook the 2-2.5h workouts and will just go earlier.