[quote]Sxio wrote:
Heavy fool, reading about your training is interesting and I agree with all of your points, but if you want to give people advice starting with “this is what I do…” then you have to post some pics mate!
Silly or not, I’m never going to be too interested in those sorts of statements unless I know the author practises what they preach!
For instance, CT would be my favourite writer on this site. He obviously walks the walk.
Go heavy fool wrote:
Jimfound wrote:
This argument has been beaten to the ground…I have seen it go back and forth ad-nauseum.
Here it is…try both methods for a period of time and find which one works best for you.
I bet most on this board would recommend lower reps. Personally I like heavy weights at low reps (3 to 6) without going to failure. I just feel better when I do that, like I am growing more and can get more quality sets that way.
I recommend doing what I do. I could never recommend doing something I’ve never done.
I recommend going to failure constantly if you’re a beginner… not only that, going way past it, not what you actually think is failure but what your muscles say is failure. This will increase your pain tolerance and just start the bodybuilding process for you. After that, learn to use shocking principles and rotate rep ranges around with periodization.
Lastly, you can do what I do now. I do 50 rep sets of dropsets/stripper sets or rest-pause re-rack sets. Or do low reps, the reps don’t matter… beginners think they do but they don’t… it’s the change of rep ranges that matters and the amout of tissue you can break down using different rep ranges. I do 1-rep singles right now, rack the bar rest 5-10 seconds, then rep 1 more time, rack the bar, and then keep doing that until I reach 7 reps. I do 4 sets of that then switch to another exercise. I do 2 or 3 exercises then call it a day. I do 8 or 12 high intensity sets, none to failure… I use my 3RM weight.
I’ll be doing this for 2 more weeks. Then I’m switching to 40-50 rep sets with my 10-12 RM weight to start, then I’ll drop set it or rest-pause it. These sets I’ll take to failure or way past it.
Generally 3-12 reps is ideal but if your training for strength, you will want the reps less than 3. For hypertrophy, they’re not going to matter. There are about a dozen factors to explain why the reps won’t matter. Just try to use the normal principles that everyone else uses. when you get stuck and can’t grow, just PM me and I’ll explain why and give you some tips.
Muscle building is more about breakdown of muscle tissue, not reps. Ideally a heavy weight with alot of reps. You can break it down in many rep ranges. Strength training is about heavy ass weight and lifting maximally. For power just explode through the weight as fast as possible and go heavy or light.
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No need to post pics. I had a picture of my bicep shot as my avatar and took it down yesterday because I guess a few people got intimidated by the size and didn’t think my arm was actually my arm. So now there is nothing to make anyone feel like less of a man.
My girlfriend is in the sexy wives threads. you can take a look at her and guess what kind of man she might be interested in. I will probably take her pic down too if it starts to bother anyone.