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Originally Posted by samurai69 so hence 5x5 = 25, or 8 sets of 3 = 24, Right??, is that also totals per Body Part or Per exercise
It was only a skim through, in answer to wingers point, but is that along the right lines??? |
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I've read that one before, along with most other articles Chad puts out. I like Chad's writings. He advocates that much volume but NOT to failure. In fact, if you're doing 8 sets of 3 with only 80% of your 1RM, you're a long, long way from failure. I tend to lean the other way for most beginner/intermediate trainees and encourage far less volume, but with more of an emphasis on how to work progressive resistance, as this is the key IMO. The only things really missing from the article is deloading phases (which ARE needed when doing that amount of volume) and progressive resistance.
The idea behind a volume routine like that, is that you'd load up and bring yourself to the point of overtraining (even overtrain slightly), and when you deload is when your strength would actually increase - with the rebound effect from overtraining (i.e. what bodybuilders traditionally see when they take a week off, and then typically mistake that week off for lesser frequency being the answer).
I wholeheartedly disagree with his statement that anything under this magical "24" number will fail to give hypertrophy though. Most of the guys doing WSB, are only doing 1-3 work sets with 1-3 reps. And they sure seem to get plenty of hypertrophy. Not to mention all the guys getting big off low volume routines. There are lots of ways to get big/strong.
But yeah, nice article.