I did 102 sets of arms today. Is that good?

[SSAlexSS]

Hi everyone. I woke up this morning and decided that if a little muscle soreness is good, more should be better. So I said "screw microtrauma" and I sliced into my quads with a carving knife. I'm gonna be HYOOGE.

Belial! I truly like you!

This is hilarious... for now.....

 

[SSAlexSS]

i want more info about this high set, 8 hour program

I woke up at 6 had my first lunch then training....

Here is what I did

Total DB curls - 45 sets. Going up to 8 reps on heavy weights.. soemtimes only 4 reps.
2 DB light sets (zottman curls)
2 Barbell curls
5 incline db curls
Preacher curl: 10 sets

23 or so sets of dips behind the back
15 sets of pushdowns

Tricepos 38 sets
Biceps 64 sets


First 25 sets give you great pump... After that I had to do like 70 sets to regain the pump..... OVERTRAINING is just underestimation!

 

[SSAlexSS]

hahaha , why don't you hire OJ simpson to cut up your muscles?

because 102 sets would do a better job at that!


I am happy! I can still type!

 

[FitnessFrk]

once you reach concentric failure that's all you can do for the muscle.

 

[DaCypher]

once you reach concentric failure that's all you can do for the muscle.

Thats not necessarily true. You can continue the to hold the weight until you reach static failure in which you can't keep the weight at a certain point. At this point (with the help of a spotter) you can do negative reps where a spotter helps you to the top of the lift (or in one arm exercises you can use your other arm to spot yourself) and you then lower the weight slowly until you can no longer control the descent of the weight at which point you reach eccentric muscular failure, aka total muscular failure.

Also, just because you train to failure on one set doesn't mean you can't do another set...

 

[Beleriand_K]

I choose to read SSAlexSS' story as the joke it hopefully is, but just to make sure some poor innocent beginner doesn't takes it seriously, doing 102 sets through eight hours is completely ridiculous.

It's continuing wearing out the muscles way after all energy (and sense) has left the body. In a more technical term, it is continuing training several hours into the catabolic zone. And that's not only futile, it's also outright stupid.

 

[Belial]

hopefully we've gotten that point across hundreds of times in the past...but yes, it may bear mentioning again.

 

[neo1605]

Damn.........what inspired you to do that?

 

[mattcanning99]

http://www.t-mag.com/html/30odac.html

 

[Blood&Iron]

Why stop at 102 sets? If more is better, why not do 500 sets? Or 1000?
I did, out of sheer desperation, and a measure of stupidity give Poliquin's One-day Arm cure a try. Not because of any sound reasoning on his part or any particular faith I had in him--actually I'm closer to being in the HIT camp and think most "experts" are full of shit--but simply because I figured it was only one day of my life. Why not try it?
If you're not familiar with the program, it consists of doing a very brief arm workout lasting about 7-8minutes every half-hour for about eight or nine hours. I actually did it at a commercial gym, following his dictates to the letter, and was rewarded with a 1/4" of growth as a result. Whether that was worth the time is debatable. And I can tell you from experience that after 5 hours straight at a gym, it certainly didn't seem worth it.
Generally, if you're arms do lack in development I would suggest that rather than increasing your direct arm work you decrease it. Focus your efforts on heavy dips and chins and maybe a few sets of curls now and again, and I think you'll see far more growth than if you sit around doing 100 half-assed sets.

And there is always the Arthur Jones arm-cure:
1 60s chin, followed immediately by
Standing Curls to failure
1 60s dip, followed immediately by
Tricep Pressdowns to failure

Do this 1-2x a week for a couple of weeks and see what happens.