By the way, I’m burnt out on this topic and my energy has completely dissipated.
Kaput! Finito! Shot! Exhausted! Crapped out! Toasted! Crapped out! Destroyed! Cooked! Roasted!
God bless you for all your help though.I for one, appreciate it
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
By the way, I’m burnt out on this topic and my energy has completely dissipated.
Kaput! Finito! Shot! Exhausted! Crapped out! Toasted! Crapped out! Destroyed! Cooked! Roasted![/quote]
haha alright man, well thanks for all the help!!
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
I’m NOT an expert on muscle growth–and even the exercise physiology geeks aren’t experts in REAL WORLD muscle building either–but I believe there is some threshold of minimal volume that’s needed to a) perform an exercise at max limits or b) grow or c) any other training adaption.
If what I said weren’t the case, we’d all be doing just fine with a few easy warmup sets and ONE main set to failure per muscle group. (DC and HIT squads are welcome to chime in here.)[/quote]
I’m no too knowledgeable about HIT, but I know when it comes to DC, there’s technically only one all-out set, but it’s a set that’s Rest/paused, so I’m not even totally sure you can call it that.
I know for the last year or so I’ve mostly been doing a Yates-inspired 3-way. For quite some time I’d work up to one maximal set of (usually something like) 6-10, and just continue to adjust the weight.
I found this was a successful formula for some of my muscles, and not so much for others. For instance, my chest fatigues quickly. On my main exercise I still only do one maximal set of 6-10. I’ll then move to my second exercise, use less warm-ups, but use things like rest/pause or just multiple ‘work’ sets (in the fashion that MODOK does them.) But then for things like my legs, one maximal set is utterly pointless. I’ve recently been going much higher-volume with my ramping sets and they’ve responded quite well.
I’m not trying to say I’m a know-all, but I think that using the general frame of philosophy of ramping up is generally going to yield good results… that is, as long as you cater it to your specific needs. Case-in-point: The difference’s between [your] and MODOK’s styles.
Good post. I missed it for some reason when it came out.