Just like volume/sets, load, rest periods, frequency is just another variable you can manipulate as a tool for progression. Of course if you reduce frequency at the end without upping something else you will lose some or all of your gains.
The thing about high frequency training that many ignore (just like high volume work for that matter) is that you should see some progression at the end of your stint i.e. improvement in performance or your gains are little more than inflammation, improved tonus due to the daily recruitment.
If at the end of your HFT cycle youre still dipping the same amount of weight for the same number of reps for the same number of sets… how much did you really gain?
I personally see HFT as an extremely useful short term tool for quick progression in a certain lift or muscle group rather than a permanent solution.
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[quote]Brett620 wrote:
[quote]mutantcolors wrote:
Also known as: dips, dips and more dips.
“Oh and dips. Lots and lots of dips.”
Maybe throw in some dips with those dips. I’ve been having fun with a challenge I gave myself: 100 dips for time. So far I bite off 20 sets of 5 with a little extra pause at the 25 marks. Takes me about 10 minutes right now.[/quote]
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Try doing them high frequency, like 6 days a week. Look at the recent “chin-up challenge” article and substitute dips for chin-ups. Keep the idea the same. Don’t go to failure except on the ‘challenge day’. Use a dip-belt and shoot for a target range of 15, leaving a couple reps in the tank.
Have you get the biceps/triceps of gymnasts?? They do dips and chins everyday and they ALL have awesome arm development.[/quote]
Just out of pure curiosity…
So you grow larger due to this massive increase in frequency but what happens once you stop it? Wouldn’t you shrink from cessation?
If a gymnast stops training like a gymnast, would he still look like a gymnast? That’s kind of along the lines of what I want to ask.
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