I find CW’s target rep total of 25 and interesting idea. But I’m still unsure whether he means 25 reps per exercise (say 25 for bench, 25 for incline, 25 for dips) or as a total for that body part as in just choosing one movement for 25?
Since he advocates primarily total body training and usually just one exercise per bodypart I would be willing to guess he means total per bodypart.
Like Scott said his rep recommendations are based on doing full body workouts. A common full body workout he prescribes would have 4 main exercises, upper body push, upper body pull, lower body quad dominant and lower body hamstring dominant. Sometimes his workouts will have 2 more exercises that might be more focussed on a single muscle group like bi’s, tri’s, calves or forearms.
This would all be based starting out with 3 full body workouts a week. Each movement pattern would get 75 reps a week starting out. Over time you would generally increase in volume by increasing the reps to 50 per exercise or increasing the sessions per week up to 8 doing 4 two-a-days
At 8 sessions per week you are getting up to 200 reps per movement pattern.
thanks guys