"Look at me and look at them"
In the last few months I have befriended a competitive bodybuilder. He's old school. 5'10 and 260lbs. Kinda reminds me of Dr. Abby, Same build and hairstyle! He gives out alot of information and alot of the young guys flock to him and train with him. He doesnt know shit about pct, has probably never been on an online board before. Tells me I should get back on cycle when I've only been off for 7 weeks. His training philosophy is crazy, he only does high reps. He does everything in the 20-30 rep range. He swears that's how you get big. Last night I was doing leg press with 630lbs on the sled when he walks in. Condesendingly he smiles and starts in with his usual shit. "how many reps you doing with that?" I say "10-12." He says I should drop the weight and do 30 reps! I tell him how I have read and studied how Hypertrophy works and that doing anything in that rep range can actually waste muscle. He laughed and said. "Look at you and look at me"
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That's not volume training tahs high reps. There is a big difference between them. Just beacuse he is big doesn't mean he knows all either. As well as being old school well that's no reason to ignore another persons input. I also am old school but I have learnt from people of all ages and experience. Too totally discount others is a sure sign of a big ego as well as an inflated sense of ones self. For example only a few years ago I meet a guy who asked me if I had ever done volume training. My reply was what is that. I checked it out gave it a crack and man its was nothing short of awesome. This guy needs to get his head out of his ass and guys need to stop sucking him off. His way is not the only way.
AnonInteresting theory mixing things up is the most important as your body gets used to training styles. For myself I keep all my sets to a 6 rep maximum, I use my first couple sets as just warm ups for the one set that I push my absolute max with the most weight I shoot for between 4 and 6 clean reps.
As I finish off a body part I will pick up a lighter weight and do one set of high reps 15+ would be high reps for me as I don't like to waste energy on light weights.
I use the lift heavy all the time method, everything I do in the gym is working towards that last set at my max. I do sometimes just to mix things up do some high rep low weight days, just to keep things fresh. Working out at a new gym also can kick you over a hurdle.
AnonBottom line is: what works. The guy that stays locked in and never ventures out to try another style of training my rob himself of years of gains.
I'll be going even lighter and getting back to you guys this summer.
Serge nubret only did volume training like that for some people it just works a i guess gotta love that old school mentality
Heres what I do know from my own personal experience. Ive worked out with him once. We did shoulders and Bi's. We did all sets in the 20+ range. It was cool and I got a really neat pump that hurt so bad I couldnt move my arms. It went away and the next day I wasnt even sore. when I have a good day and I push it hard in the 8-12 range, I can barely move the next day and am sore for days. I judge how effective my workouts are based on the next few days after. It has definitely work for him though!!!
Ive never really tried i stick in the 8-12 range on most excercises sometimes 15 with some leg workouts and im like you next day i can tell that i did something i think its just genetics some people can look at weights and get ripped
Lol that's so true. Lately I have been going heavier because u know what they say about high wt low reps, bulk. Then to cut low wt and high reps. But this whole cycle so far I've noticed that I do get sore the next night after workout the day before. I actually got my back sore this last workout day before yesterday and usually my back never really gets sore so the heavier weights are def starting to affect me
Yea its not so much how you train but like the dr said variety is key
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