Pretty often I come into a topic and know that there’s no real desire for actual input.
Often times, the best way to learn is exactly this process.
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One more thought – you shouldn’t be going to failure on each and every set you have listed. If you are doing that I would stop. If you want to follow Paul’s approach you should warm up to one or two failure sets per exercise. That’s it.
That surprises me. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a commercial gym that didn’t have some type of chest press machine and nearly all of those converge.
It’s a small gym in my town with not much equipment, but they have most of what is necessary.
I do one warm up set before most exercises, but you’re right, I should do it on all exercises if going to failure.
I’m not sure my point came through clearly. You’ve listed multiple sets per exercise. If, for example, you are taking 3-4 sets per exercise to absolute failure, then I would stop doing that and instead take only the last set to failure.
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So 3 movements for just the biceps, but only 1 (maybe 2 depending on who you ask) compound movements for the entire lower body…got it.
You can find a million ways to justify how this is a good program, but I think it’s worth asking yourself why you are seemingly unwilling to do any movements that are difficult to master.
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What movements are you referring to? I am confused
To name a few:
Front squats, back squats, zercher squats, lunges, split squats, step-ups, hip thrusts, any deadlift variation, good mornings, glute-ham raises, overhead press, push press, dips, BB rows, DB rows, any chinup variation
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