100 Reps?

On a lot of articles I have seen, I have notice that some contributes to T-Nation.com recommend using 100 rep exercises. Does this help? … Or is it a waste of time? Let me know your thoughts on this please.

WT

If you’re a bodybuilder, I feel it helps.

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On a lot of articles I have seen, I have notice that some contributes to T-Nation.com recommend using 100 rep exercises. Does this help? … Or is it a waste of time? Let me know your thoughts on this please.

WT
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From what I’ve read it seems like doing 100 reps as a final work out before you leave the gym after a high volume workout works best. I like them just because it works your muscle 'til you have absolutely nothing left.

[quote]WTlifter wrote:
On a lot of articles I have seen, I have notice that some contributes to T-Nation.com recommend using 100 rep exercises. Does this help? … Or is it a waste of time? Let me know your thoughts on this please.

WT
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all reps work

the dumbest thing ever brought up into bodybuilding terms is “reps”

it is confusing the hell out of everyone

it is this simple, the more reps you do, the longer under tension

its the stress factor of the reps that matter

100 stressful reps make change
100 non stressful reps don’t

eliminate the term reps and use it only as a stress factor

if partial reps are all that you can do, it equals a boatload of stress

if 300 reps are what you need to do, the stress and over a longer period

you can build a muscle with 1 rep, 1000 reps, or 10 reps, or 10 partial reps

yes 100 reps works, it depends on the application of those reps if it will work the way you want it too

If it’s the only thing you’re doing I don’t think it will do much.

Chuck it on the end of an intense program and I think it would be quite effective, at least for recovery purposes.

like mason33 said, your muscles need to be under stress. I’ve found that 100 reps is only possible with an extremely light weight. With such a light weight you’re only gonna be working for the last half of the set.

Doing a set of 50 with a little more weight or a drop set to 50 reps at the end of a workout to flush out the muscles is more effective because you will be working on almost every single rep.

100 reps are very good for recovery. They activate the blood flood to your muscles, this is good (can’t be bothered to go into details, but there is plenty of info about this on this site).

I found that a very helpful method is the one suggested by Chad Waterbury. Do 100 reps thoughout the day. So, 4 blocks of 25, or 5 of 20, etc. I really helps recovery. Lots.

Howdy,

Well, Im not sure of the programs that prescribe 100 straight reps. Most will have you do some kind of 100 reps over the course of training that body part so you can keep up the intensity.

Just doing 100 straight reps probably wont do much. There are people who prescribe doing 100 reps with 70% of your max or something, and taking breaks as needed to finish. Thats ok, because as long as you are up around the threshhold of intensity needed to build new muscle, you are going to be fine. ( For beginners around 60% advanced around 85%)

A rep is a measurement of time, so the 100 rep thing isnt a magic rep number, its about TUT.

I like the advice of Thib and Berardi lately. Basically, just get in the gym and bust your ass. A marginal program applied with out of this world intensity will beat the shit out of a great program applied with the intensity of an arthritic grandmother.

Josh