Long Term Effectiveness of Training For Strength vs Training For “Pump”
Long Term Effectiveness of Training For Strength vs Training For “Pump”
Two twins with long legs both choose the hack squat as a main exercise to target their lower quads since, due to their inherent structure, they find they have a hard time fully targeting the quads with normal squats. One twin never goes above 3 plates on each side and does high rep sets, strip sets, and supersets hack squats with leg extensions. He works out really hard and throws up at least once a month whilst training legs. The other twin simply takes a no holds barred approach to increasing the bar weight on the hack squat so that after 2 years he is working up to 12 reps with 5 plates per side for 4 sets. Which twin will have better lower quad development? The one hack squatting 5 plates per side or the one squatting 3 plates per side? whats the answer !!
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It's simple. When you can complete a weight on an exercise for more repetitions or more weight than you could say a week before, something happened. Your muscle grew. The easiest way to tell if you are progressing is if your lifts are going up. Super sets and high rep sets have their place but in the long term Mr. Twin who is doing 5 plates for 4x12 most likely has better development. For me the awesome pumps you get from super sets gradually gets harder to achieve with time. Your body becomes accustomed to it. With progressively adding more weight to lifts week to week your body will be forced to grow. You will hit plateau's regardless and eventually. Twin 1's progress would be stagnant much quicker than the other one in my opinon.
depends on diet, how their bodies respond to the diff training, also you didnt mention if the one doing 5 plates also does leg extensions etc
my motto has always been the sorer you get the bigger you get! to each his own ;-)
Chaz32621All in all I think the more muscle you have the better and in order to do that you have to lift heavy eat good and sleep well.
Chaz32621Yah Im with Gorillafit if im trying to cut weight ill go lighter and try to hit 12 to 15 reps, but if im at the time done cutting then ill up weight and lower reps around 8 8 8 6 or 8 8 6 5 sometimes ill run 5x5 if I want to just throw mass on. I cant imagine how he dosnt feel much doing squats shit, if you do them right fuckkkk, lol im 6'4 ever since I started getting low and touching the low box squats behind me ive really not only developed my quads but also my inner legs, butt.
For me personally I feel heavy weight puts more size on me than high reps.