Do Ya'll have Anybody At Your Gym that Does Like 8 to 12 Sets of Bench?

[curling]

Just what does that accomplish. This dude has got big pecs but he really never does anything but bench maybe some curls and shoulders. But why do people do that many sets of bench?

 

[XAX]

Could be a powerlifter...or perhaps not

 

[Belial]

Yep. Skinny little kid with big pecs and tris, but NOTHING else, and I mean NOTHING. Maybe a little bit of lat and delt, but no legs and no real back.

 

[XAX]

He's just ignorant...

"Yeah, chicks only dig a large chest and some big guns"...

He properly thinks he's so fucking cool...

 

[gymtime]

There's at least one in every gym.

 

[Blood&Iron]

Yup. One of the biggest and THE most well-proportioned guy at my gym, so I ain't gonna argue(Although I think this has much to do with his genetics) He actually does 12-15 sets of incline DB press for chest. 15-20 sets of rows. Crazy volume. I've come into the gym and he was doing incline DB presses, done my workout, sat around guzzling my postworkout shake, taken a shower, changed and as I was leaving saw him still doing incline DB presses. He weighs 210, is natural, and used to weigh 235. At 235, he looked like Arnold at his peak, maybe better--certainly better legs. Honest to goddamn truth. He looked better than most pros. But he's never competed. Unbelievable. What's really great is he's always got these little skinny beginners trying to work in with him.

 

[curling]

Do Ya'll think the crazy volume works? I mean this dude has a huge chest. And another dude does tons of push and pull ups. And he is one ripped sucker too. So I wonder in extreme volumes do really work.

 

[Enock]

yeah I do, I don't know how much better or if its any better than non excessive volume work, but I've done it in the past not all on the same excersize mabe 6 sets or so, but continueing onto another movement and technically I'm still hitting the same muscle. more and more and more and more.

It was mabe a waste of time but it worked certainly no worse than non super volume for me it may even have worked better. I actually do it during cutting more I don't find it much harder to recover from but since I burn alot of calories doing it. Beats doing cardio.

 

[HansNZ]

I did lots of bench pressing amongst other chest exercises to try and get my chest to grow (it is my slowest growing bodypart). All that I ended up doing was overtraining - and of course did not grow as a result. Excessive volume didn't work for me although it may work for others.

 

[Bigsatan13]

I do 12 sets, 3-incline,3-flat, 3-decline, and 3-wide(less weight for pump). I love it. It works for me.