Anyone Have any interesting tips or tricks. One I have begun doing is slowing down my weight jumps. I try and keep it around 10 lbs. Then I shoot for the same # of reps as last week. I try and keep my rep range in the 13-18 except for quads. This allows me to get more near failure reps in my Rest pauses. I am also trying to pay attention to over all work. work=Mass+distance. So if I Bench 100lbs for 10 reps that is a 1000. If the next week I go to 110 and only get 9 reps that is only 990 which would actually be less work than the time before. By keeping my rep range higher and weight jumps smaller I am able to constantly increase my workload. What do you guys think? I am also going to start calculating my work load from the begining of the blast to the end. And then try and push myself blast to blast.
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RT, Lets not get out of hand here, as long as your are increasing your weight or reps, I don't care if you are using 1 1/4 per side you are still progressing and that is what makes mass and strength.
So don't go overanalyzing the lbs moved per workout go by the intensity of each and every workset you do...
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Originally posted by RaulJimenezdamn , bobo is loose in this forum lock him inhuman ! :P
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Although I agree that he may be overanalyzing slightly, it might be interesting to see how this turns out if he uses it as an experiment and doesn't live and die by those calculations. It does work out to less of a workload so I see the point.www.trueprotein.com........best protein around!!
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Ok the point is that in the old high volume days I did this too added up my workouts, I used to move on average 100,000 lbs per workout, now I train 3 days a week with 15 exercises a week and I don't move 1/10 of what I used to in the total workout and look how much mass I gained!...
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It's funny because alot of people still recommend the old 'push more calculated weight each time so that you progress' thing. A hell of a lot of advanced bodybuilders still believe in it too. It's true that more weight pushed each workout means progression, but just because you squatted 5000 lbs your last workout and then stripped down to the bar and did it four times meaning 5180 your second workout, that doesn't mean you are going to progress too much, hehe.
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US, I know now that is it more intensity coupled with progressive weight increases and recouperation that makes the difference...
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My main point I think was missed. This is what I came up with for me after analyzing what made a good work out and what made a poor one. I can generate more intensity in an exercise when I keep my Rest paused total in the rep range of 13-18. When I fell down to 9-10 reps I did not do enough work-even though my weight was higher. By keeping the reps in the 13-18 range I keep the workload higher. One thing I am doing now is to slow down my weight jumps. I am not going from 225 to 255 even if I feel I can hit it for 8. I go to 235 and keep my reps up in the 13 ish range. At 15 I always increase my weight. This may be second nature to most of you but it is something that was new to me.
IH I am using this concept only as it applies to DC style workouts. It is apples to oranges when comparing strictly to high volume because of overtraining.
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Originally posted by rugbythugMy main point I think was missed. This is what I came up with for me after analyzing what made a good work out and what made a poor one. I can generate more intensity in an exercise when I keep my Rest paused total in the rep range of 13-18. When I fell down to 9-10 reps I did not do enough work-even though my weight was higher. By keeping the reps in the 13-18 range I keep the workload higher. One thing I am doing now is to slow down my weight jumps. I am not going from 225 to 255 even if I feel I can hit it for 8. I go to 235 and keep my reps up in the 13 ish range. At 15 I always increase my weight. This may be second nature to most of you but it is something that was new to me.
IH I am using this concept only as it applies to DC style workouts. It is apples to oranges when comparing strictly to high volume because of overtraining.
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RT, Trust me all new trainees make major jumps at the beginning and of course they will slow down as you progress and get heavier and heavier, that also why you will need to do cruises at a much more frequent time as the weights increase and so does your intensity while using more weight...
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