CT, Loved your article on ramping and after reading the article and the discussion on it (all of it) I have a couple questions:
I normally start a muscle group with a big compound lift and end it with a high rep (10-12) isolation exercise, do you recommend I do that isolation exercise with low reps and ramping?
Also with ramping, what is a good indicator to increase your base weight that you start with on the first set? I generally aim for 30 total reps with each exercise (whether I do 6x5 or 3x10).
[quote]Addict3d wrote:
Wheres the link to the ramping article? Thanks[/quote]
The article was right on the front page btw.
To OP, I have used different ramping methods but have followed one similar to this for a little while. I generally keep the warmup and first couple working sets the same until I progress at the top of my sets.
For example if I do a 5x5 I will add 5-15 lbs per set until I comfortably can complete all those. The next time I do that exercise I generally keep the first couple sets as before and once I reach my previous max for the sets I will go 5-10 over until I cant complete the reps.
I am not CT, but I think that as you increase the weight you should naturally increase the working set weight to accomodate the increase in weight, for me this was just done naturally thorugh the progression.
I see what you mean, but in the article I gathered that the aim of ramping is to auto-regulate your session, so if you’re doing 5x5 you keep doing sets of 5 adding weight each set, until you can’t add anymore, I was thinking maybe you could progress if you were able to do an extra set with more weight thus indicating for you to increase the weight on the base set. I don’t know, I’m interested to see how CT does it.