Working your muscles til exhaustion vs just doing a few sets
I've wondered this for a while and would enjoy hearing other people's opinions.
The way I have been working out, (and I'm going for mass & strength gains) is after I warm up, I start with 5 sets of 5, as heavy as I can go. After those 5 sets I then decrease the weight slightly and increase the reps, and do maybe 8-10 reps (as many as I can do with the weight decreased) and do maybe 5 more sets like that. Sometimew I just alternate the weight and do at least 5 sets as heavy as I can first and do a bunch of mid weight/mid rep low weight/high rep sets afterwards.
I really just do this because I feel like it tears up my muscles more than if I were to just do the initial 5 sets of 5, however I hear that's what a lot of people do is just 5x5. I don't feel as much of a burn when I do 5 heavy reps because I just get to the point that I can't push it up that 6th time but if i'm doing a little less weight @ 8-12 reps I feel everything burning and tearing way more because I'm able to do more reps if that makes sense
I've also heard that over training your muscles is a thing so I'm not sure if it's bad that I do so many sets, if I'm just tearing them up to the point that they won't heal back as good.
I'm not quite sure so I'd like to hear what other people think about it and what's worked for you.
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And pull ups are good too
https://youtu.be/4QI3qz0Kah8
Ric Drasin from the golden era just uploaded a video about this last week! Although you won’t get to see it because I see you have been banned. I’ll post a video for the other guys on here to check out
AnonHow hard I train is sometimes determined by my schedule. If I know I will not be training the following days or doing what I train for then I will train harder than usual that day. If I know I'm training tmrw then I wont train so hard today.
I’d like to stimulate the muscle not annihilate it and then get rest! Growing takes place outside the gym not in it
It all works but only for so long. Switch your rep count and exercise rotation atleast every six weeks.
Keeping your muscles confused is what works.
Yep!! I’m a fan of muscle confusion
To get a muscle or exercise to its strongest, you need to be training it at least twice a week. Two or three sets of anywhere between 1 to 4 reps, to failure on each set. By doing 5 sets of 5 and then further sets of 8 to 12 reps you are over training the muscle and it will do nothing at all for strength.
nai_galaxyTottaly agree, i was training for long years with 8-15 reps range for muscle hypertrophy. Develop was ok but not that i wanted. I got sick of that and i was like ok..if i cant be that muscular i want to be strong, so i made 4-6 rep with 3-4 sets, and 2 exercise/ muscle group, specially with bench,millitary press, deadlift and squat.. and what happened? I just became stronger,stronger,stronger.. and i got bigger,bigger,bigger. Doing heavy weight training for 4 years now and works perfect for me. My workout is 45min instead of old 2 hrs and i never developed better.
Dbow3002-3 sets and that's it? So on chest/tri day I can just do 2-3 sets of bench press and 2-3 sets of triceps heavy and that's it? Then you leave the gym and go home?
I've always trained really hard and done a lot of sets to the point where I'm sore the next couple days at least. I would be shocked to find out that I could actually recieve better results when much less effort. I'd like to learn more about overtraining.
Being very sore is not an indication of how hard you have trained - the idea is that in 3 days time you are ready to train bench again heavy as possible. If you are still sore from doing loads of sets and reps then this is not possible. Also rest periods between sets need to be anything between 5 to 8 minutes so if you are training properly you will be in the gym for at least 2 hours each time. You should be leaving the gym with your CNS so shot that you are barely able to think at first.
You're talking about training for strength v. size.
https://blackstonelabs.com/blogs/weekly-blog/training-for-size-vs-streng...
Dbow300Interesting, so I guess the way I am training is correct for the most part according to this article. Thanks
Good article