Shit, I even made a bet with @yogi on this very site a few years ago that the pendulum will swing in a way that people are going to start claiming that high volume is for natties while low volume is for drug users. It’s happening right now.
Wait, here’s an even more recent post from '17:
Yeah I have been seeing that mind set for awhile now . A complete 180 degree turn from what was being said years ago.
I think the only program I’m going to recommend from now on will be FST-7 but no one is going to understand that all the exercises other than the one used for the 7 sets are pyramided up to a top set to failure because of all the nonsense on the internet.
I feel triggered, nay, bullied.
Makes me want to run, to hide.
No! Do not run from the Light! I came to play Jesus to the lepers in your head!
Come out from the U2 Lover Closet bro’.
Love is a temple, Love the higher law.
Just gonna throw this out there in case no one hasnt, but fuck fairlife/ the dairy industry as a whole.
There’s an insect in my ear. If I scratch it won’t disappear. It’s gonna itch and burn and sting. I don’t wanna see what the scratching brings…
Something tells me you want the unlimited one, haha.
Ex-wifey’s bestie was a rabid U2 fan. Years after we parted ways, I mentioned in passing that I was now a U2 fan also; U2 fan apparently said she was glad I finally got some heart(or it might’ve been got some soul, I forget); I told ex-wifey to tell her bestie that I was glad she finally got a sense of humor.
I don’t follow because I never paid attention to “coaches” in the lifting industry until I started reading T-Nation forums.
Are you saying you don’t buy the low volume approach?
It’ll be interesting to see how the conversation goes between Paul and Stu.
I’ve always trained with low volume. I’m just surprised at how people are so easily swayed after the “high volume” myth/fad has been going on. I am also anticipating people are going to start thinking in extremes as usual and start latching on to things like Mike Mentzer’s HIT.
Got it. My biggest takeaway has been the effort at which I should train. Another hot topic has always been whether or not one should train to failure.
I’ve tried a lot of thi things in the gym, but I’ve never tried low volume + ball busting intensity.
That thread is also revealing that there are some long term posters around here who just want to argue and yell at people. I saw one person pop up yesterday who recently did the same thing in a vegan thread.
Their beliefs are being challenged. If their beliefs were derived from real world experience and results, they wouldn’t be yelling lol. This is the expected cult-like behavior from zealots.
I suppose when one has been suckered into doing 20+ sets per bodypart every session, there going to be a lot of resistance when he’s told it was for no additional benefit.
Think of the though process here. Someone reads the internet. Finds something from some cult guru that all the big gym bros aren’t doing. There’s “science” and shit to back it up. Starts doing it because he thinks he has the upper hand on all the dumbass gym bros who don’t know science and don’t know how to train. After a couple of years, he finds out that he really should have been doing what the gym bros have been doing all this while.
What do you think he’s gonna do lol?
Double down on his own beliefs because he’s already invested so much into them or just accept that he drank the koolaid and everyone else he thought were dumber than him were actually right?
We saw a rash of this a few years back.
I found that between which is better high vs low volume., normally the best is somewhere in the middle i feel.
This reminds me of some of my favorite advice on training.
“Should I do low weight for high reps or high weight for low reps?”
“You should do high weight for high reps.”