Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below 
I do 6-10 reps... one set. Used to do 3-4 sets
like everybody else, but I read a review of the
one-set vs. multi-set literature that reviewed
3 dozen studies, all of which were either inconclusive
or showed that the number of sets made no difference
to strength gain. So I went back to HIT. After
2 weeks I am back up to where I was before
5 months of 3-set workouts during which my
strength only dropped. However I also changed
my diet at the same time, adding more fat
and switching a lot of soy protein to beef,
chicken, or tuna, so that could also account for it.
The article also showed that almost all of the
assertions in weightlifting literature that claim
you should do 3 sets trace back to 1 study
which actually didn't have any conclusive results.
Of course all these studies were done with
average males... maybe freaky huge people
need to do 3 sets. But I'm not freaky huge.
like everybody else, but I read a review of the
one-set vs. multi-set literature that reviewed
3 dozen studies, all of which were either inconclusive
or showed that the number of sets made no difference
to strength gain. So I went back to HIT. After
2 weeks I am back up to where I was before
5 months of 3-set workouts during which my
strength only dropped. However I also changed
my diet at the same time, adding more fat
and switching a lot of soy protein to beef,
chicken, or tuna, so that could also account for it.
The article also showed that almost all of the
assertions in weightlifting literature that claim
you should do 3 sets trace back to 1 study
which actually didn't have any conclusive results.
Of course all these studies were done with
average males... maybe freaky huge people
need to do 3 sets. But I'm not freaky huge.
