sgtslaughter said:
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Thank you.. very much!! I like your set progression there but I could do more reps at 160lbs... next time (4 days or so) i was going to shoot for heavier. I get stronger as the muscles get warm. 95 would be warm up for me, too light to be a working set... right? Or does the warm up count as the set in this style routine?
I'm used to using uber maximal intensity and scaring people... it's hard not to want to do that. Heavier = more intensity (for me..and most I think) ... should I keep feeling out the exercise and what I can top out at for getting 8 reps out?
OH... my chest is recovering SUPER quick now. I love the routine I'm doing for it... but feel that I need a change already. ... maybe doing strict T.U.T. going a tad lighter will do that... what are your thoughts?
You're helping greatly!
I have more questions ^^^
I really look at the first set of that Three Set Prog. as a warmup for that given movement and as a wake up call for muscle memory, second set as a working set and pre-exhaust and the third set as push to failure of form: heavy as hell but not 'by any means' kinda failure, strict as hell failure, but you know that jazz already anyway...
Hell YAH heavier is more intensity, you know my sing-song, 'Intensity breeds density, Quantity destroys quality'. For my charges here at work, i would rather see them hit the 8th on the third set easy and walk away to add serious weight next session for that part, than to add another set this time. I am crazy serious about THREE SETS MAX, you add the weight until you hit the wall, then toss in a session of a different school of thought to stagger the muscle group and shock the fibers. then back at it.
Back, as an example: i hit three different 'low row' targets every three times i have someone train them:
close grip with abdomen as the target,
next time: medium wide palms in bar with solar plexus as the target,
next time: super wide grip palms down with upper sternum as the target...
thats three back sessions, about a week and a half?.. lather rince repeat. it ends up hammering very much the same combination of muscles (lats, traps, rhomb., erectors, post. delts, etc.) but in differing targets, thereby different %s of each muscle hit.
Basic recipe, different 'flavors' more well rounded back.
rambling cause i am hungry,