Nothing but triples for strength. Anything over 3 reps=warmup

[JOKER47]

Speed work is VERY taxing on the CNS.

I guess I should explain myself. It doesn't seem as taxing for me as a heavy 1-3 reps. But maybe that's just me.


CCJ> Fair enough. I didn't mean to say that speed work is NOT taxing on the CNS, but it just isn't as taxing to ME as heavy 1-3 reps. (At >80% 1rm.)
I also feel I get more from using speed work and heavy 1-3 rep work together, but on different days, (No shit, right Spatts?) rather than just "speed" type work all the time. Which what I thought you were talking about. And if it is, then I am very glad you have found what obviously works very well for you.


Was a good discussion.


Joker

 

[coolcolj]

Well heavy stuff just overtrains me fast

 

[JOKER47]

Well heavy stuff just overtrains me fast

I did me, too. Until I started following WSB more correctly, and disciplined myself to do my DE days AS DE, and leave the really heavy stuff for my ME days.


Joker

 

[JOKER47]

Well I do go heavy once in a while - maybe every 3 weeks - just a few singles and doubles here and there after my "speed" work

Cool. It's obviously workin' for ya.....

 

[coolcolj]

Well I do go heavy once in a while - maybe every 3 weeks - just a few singles and doubles here and there after my "speed" work

 

[MeatHead57]

Well, I was doing 230-245 at 15, though I weighed 150-155. I was a good bodybuilder at that age but nothing dumbfounding.

Relax a little bit, MH. Talking smack to Slobberknocker, a well-known and liked poster who himself is a fucking ANIMAL, ain't a good way for you to start out here.


im not trying to talk smack it just pisses me off when someone says sumthing like that thinking i have no clue what im talking about. i kno what wrks for me n thas what i do!! My bad if it came out like that but i was already in a bad mood that day n it pisses me off!!

 

[guldukat]

im not trying to talk smack it just pisses me off when someone says sumthing like that thinking i have no clue what im talking about.

I hear you

i kno what wrks for me n thas what i do!! My bad if it came out like that but i was already in a bad mood that day n it pisses me off!!

Sorry to hear that. I know it's not easy when you feel people pass judgment on you simply because you're young. I still get that occassionally at 25 *shrugs*

It'll be a better day tomorrow, dude.

 

[collegiateLifter]

If you are a certified USA weightlifting coach then you know that their primary goal is definitely not an increase muscle mass. As far as the five rep sets I can tell you that they are used very rarely, if ever. There is simply no benefit because technique breaks down after the third rep. Im not saying you are wrong, but I can guarantee you when the Olympic team works out at the Olympic training center in Colorado, they arent doing sets of five.

I find that interesting.

The Russian's don't do it this way.

Science and Practice of Strength Training says on page 97,

"In auxiliary strength excercises such as squatting with a barbell, where motor coordination only partially resembles the coordination in the snatch and clean and jerk, the number of repititions in one set increases. In barbell squats, for instance, the number of lifts varies from 1 to 10, with the average range being 3 to 6."

 

[coolcolj]

Cool. It's obviously workin' for ya.....

again I'm doing singles and doubles with weights I can do 3-5 times

 

[pwr_machine]

I thought we had a debate.