Man the best part is
That you get to focus on rep PRs vs worrying about tonnage and crap like that. Good luck to you. If you read through Paul has pretty much laid out how to program this type training and has explained how to progress it as well.
Nope, not really. If I am going to bench 100 that day. I d do 12 reps of 40, then 8 of 60, 5 of 80 and work with 100 within the 5 rep range. That is what I find convenient to do, as the weights are easy to change and add up. No clue if it is a good way to warm up. Not everyone is online reading how stuff are done.
I come from Eastern Europe where information for lifting is limited and people who are into it use methods from other sports. My warm ups for working out are out of soccer with lots of dynamic stuff such as a-hops, high knees, butt kicks, cappoeras, while for shoulders and arms I use static drills from boxing. Doing these out of habit and intuition.
Programming warm ups is almost impossible. Different people need different stuff and different amounts. Try different approaches, find what works for you. Aim for the minimum work to achieve the desired effect.
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Exercisemachina 2018
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To add to the low volume idea. I saw Eddie halls YouTube of his chest day. He worked up in weight on the bench in 10% steps until he couldn’t get more than five reps, then stopped. Then he did the same with incline. Then some pump work on machines. He stated that all the low weight high volume work wasn’t useful and your muscle remembers the last weight used on a movement.
I haven’t read that thread, but just from the brief bit I can see on the front page, those are some pretty dumb arguments.
It’s worth a read, it takes a few strange turns!
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If by “strange turn” you mean it takes way too many posts for us to find out he’s talking about exercise machines, when his name is “exercisemachina”.
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Just an FYI guys, it looks like Brad Schoenfeld is going to be on the next podcast.
So we’ll delve into this.
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Can’t wait. Are you going to ask Brad why his system doesn’t produce a bunch of mass monsters? It’s only right lol.
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If the deer just sat around at a desk for 8 hours or so every workday that deer might need to warm-up a bit. If you live a life where you are in motion for a lot of time during the day then it’s probably safer to forgo a warm-up.
For me it’s a good idea to activate my abs before squatting as my right hip flexor will otherwise stabilise my torso. For bench pressing and rowing I tend to have a happier shoulder if I activate my lower left trapezius beforehand.
If I’m going straight from desk chair to the gym I’ll try to raise my pulse a bit beforehand as well.
If the deer pulls a hamstring it gets eaten. We haven’t really had that evolutionary pressure for a long time.
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Would also depend on the deers neurotype, maybe that’s why he is sat at the desk trying to find out.
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I’m sorry, I thought you linked it as an argument for not warming up. Going back I see that is not the case.
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Maybe the deer was googling neurotype and trying to decide if he needed to warm up.
I don’t think that Brad has a training system per say. I know he has some books on it but I am not sure if he has some particular training system he espouses.
Wouldn’t his system be his principles? And wouldn’t these principles be based on his research? The research you called a turd.
I think you’re right. Effort is all that matters. When you love lifting its easy to get at it. We can hit it hard enough to get that adaptation. The reality for each of us differs. For myself, I have two young girls in sports. I get up at 4 am to be at work by 5am. I get home at 5:30. From there it’s softball at 6 until 730. After that it’s baths and reading . This is a fairly typical day for parents. So when I can lift, I do follow what you’ve been harping for years. Work up to a heavy weight and set rep prs. These people mostly write for the young crown with time to waste. If I told my wife I need 2 hours a day, 5x a week, she wouldn’t even justify that dumb shit with a response.
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I said that I thought his study on the “upper volume limit” was crap. Brad has done a ton of other great work on things like nutrient timing, protein intake, loading parameters and growth, etc. His whole body of work has a ton of great things we all have learned from. But the volume study doesn’t fall under the “well done” one to me.
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What exactly have we learned from him or others? What’s new compared to how guys have trained for decades. Where has he helped with nutrition? What’s been the breakthrough? What you need to do is own what you want to say. Ask him how as a scientists, he is pushing his bias towards volume when all the evidence you have points elsewhere. If you’re correct, that all volume studies ate garbage, then what possible answer could he give you. Either he is wrong or you are wrong. See, you have no problem using words to make a point, but you backpeddle mighty fast it seems. Ask the right questions and when he acknowledges your evidence trumps his, ask him good his other work could be. How can you trust anything hes done? You obviously understand and test methods under the scientific method, you went to school and got your
PhD or MD. I assume that much, since you have all the correct answer and your not an evidence turd, like he is.
LOL what have I back peddled on?
I can acknowledge that one thing done by a person is great work, while something else is not IMO.
The point of that type of research is to help understand…
- If a mechanism is valid
- What exactly is going on behind the mechanism
Second, and I think Brad will acknowledge this…it’s a very soft science. And that’s something that EVERYONE needs to learn. It provides a guideline. It’s not like physics where things are utterly exact (a hard science).
That IS something I am going to bring up in the discussion because there’s so many “evidence based” nut swingers that call this science without understanding those particulars about it.
Research is only one third of the evidence based paradigm. It’s not meant to serve as anything more than an understanding a potential suggestion.
I’d suggest you wait until we do the podcast before making all of these assumptions and most especially TELLING ME what I need to do.
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That entire approach lacks proportionality.
You don’t take a fire axe to someone’s credibility/career over a single study or recommendation that one does not agree with.