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**hackskii** · 17-01-2006, 09:35 PM

You can do what most guys do and up the volume and lower the intensity, dont go anywhere to failure.
Volume would be someting like 8 sets of 8 reps on your bench.
15-20 seconds rest between sets so you will have to use a weight that you will do 8x8 with.
Now on your last set or two if you feel you cant get 8 reps then rest a bit more but use that weight.

Now to go along with the chest workout you can add another exercise opposite the chest like back.
Same 8 sets of 8.
So you can look at it like this 128 reps total and you do that twice a week.
No failure, fast workout, more cals burned and you wont overtrain the CNS or muscles.

8 X 8 on squats would be a killer tho

I am dieting and upping the volume, as I know I am not going to get stronger as I have cut way back on the carbs so instead of not being able to get stonger I am using this to my advantage to aid in fat loss.

Sound sensible?

You will be very tired using this methos but will get used to it as time goes by.

17-01-2006, 09:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
hackskii UK-Muscle Moderator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sunny Southern California U.S.A. Posts: 24,904	You can do what most guys do and up the volume and lower the intensity, dont go anywhere to failure. Volume would be someting like 8 sets of 8 reps on your bench. 15-20 seconds rest between sets so you will have to use a weight that you will do 8x8 with. Now on your last set or two if you feel you cant get 8 reps then rest a bit more but use that weight. Now to go along with the chest workout you can add another exercise opposite the chest like back. Same 8 sets of 8. So you can look at it like this 128 reps total and you do that twice a week. No failure, fast workout, more cals burned and you wont overtrain the CNS or muscles. 8 X 8 on squats would be a killer tho I am dieting and upping the volume, as I know I am not going to get stronger as I have cut way back on the carbs so instead of not being able to get stonger I am using this to my advantage to aid in fat loss. Sound sensible? You will be very tired using this methos but will get used to it as time goes by. __________________ 35. A majority of mankind lives in the world without; few have found the world within, and yet it is the world within that makes the world without; it is therefore creative and everything which you find in your world without has been created by you in the world within. Master Key System Scott