smith_69
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The other night I was on my way home and I was thinking about the movie Pumping Iron, Total Rebuild (when Arnold comes back to the MR O 1980) and Kai Greene methods of bodybuilding. Before its mentioned, yes probably AAS helped to achieve this and help break this threshold, but lets put this aside.
During both movies Arnold makes a reference (and this inst verbatim) pushing pass the pain and the reps start to count as soon as you feel the fatigue of the muscle. This threshold is what builds the muscle and separates people from reaching their goals and becoming champions.
The part that is obviously impossible to determine and this is based on this philosophy, what percentage of the max weight would have been used to achieve muscle fatigue at a rep and then be able to continue?
Kai along with other pro's have mentioned doing sets of 4-5 with high amount of reps with a lower weight. Again, most of this is mentioned during weeks out before a show, but what if this was to be used during a bulk? I know HVT used to be a big go to years ago, but seems to have been pushed aside for various reasons. German Volume Training was another method used ( i did try this, but it is not for the faint of heart and better with a spotter) but again, not too much of this seems to be used these days.
If the fact that pushing yourself past the normal 8-12 rep range and going to 20, 25 or even 30 rep sets helped or supposedly helped the old school guys, why isnt this mentioned more? I have flex mags from the late 90's and early 2000's with programs that Arnold mentions. During his interviews and then reveals his protocol, the extreme high reps is not mentioned. Is it because it would scare people away, seem absolutely ridiculous or near impossible to do without AAS ? Or maybe its one of those pieces of advice that was thought to be well known?
Do any of you now or have you in the past gone to 25-30 reps 4,5 sets for an excer5cise?
The other night I was on my way home and I was thinking about the movie Pumping Iron, Total Rebuild (when Arnold comes back to the MR O 1980) and Kai Greene methods of bodybuilding. Before its mentioned, yes probably AAS helped to achieve this and help break this threshold, but lets put this aside.
During both movies Arnold makes a reference (and this inst verbatim) pushing pass the pain and the reps start to count as soon as you feel the fatigue of the muscle. This threshold is what builds the muscle and separates people from reaching their goals and becoming champions.
The part that is obviously impossible to determine and this is based on this philosophy, what percentage of the max weight would have been used to achieve muscle fatigue at a rep and then be able to continue?
Kai along with other pro's have mentioned doing sets of 4-5 with high amount of reps with a lower weight. Again, most of this is mentioned during weeks out before a show, but what if this was to be used during a bulk? I know HVT used to be a big go to years ago, but seems to have been pushed aside for various reasons. German Volume Training was another method used ( i did try this, but it is not for the faint of heart and better with a spotter) but again, not too much of this seems to be used these days.
If the fact that pushing yourself past the normal 8-12 rep range and going to 20, 25 or even 30 rep sets helped or supposedly helped the old school guys, why isnt this mentioned more? I have flex mags from the late 90's and early 2000's with programs that Arnold mentions. During his interviews and then reveals his protocol, the extreme high reps is not mentioned. Is it because it would scare people away, seem absolutely ridiculous or near impossible to do without AAS ? Or maybe its one of those pieces of advice that was thought to be well known?
Do any of you now or have you in the past gone to 25-30 reps 4,5 sets for an excer5cise?