Can someone please explain!

[ultimate]

medium intensity, medium volume better? or

High intensity, low volume?

Please dun laugh at me.

[Hardcore]

what's your goal ?

[ultimate]

Hardcore said:

what's your goal ?

Gaining quality looking mass. ;D I want more defined and harder muscles. ;D

[Hardcore]

ultimate said:

Gaining quality looking mass. ;D I want more defined and harder muscles. ;D

go for 8 - 10 reps ensure that you fail at every set..and increase your protein intake

[ultimate]

Hardcore said:

go for 8 - 10 reps ensure that you fail at every set..and increase your protein intake

Yeah 8-10 reps to failure (how many sets to you reckon?), that's is what I usually do in the past, work reasonably well, but very taxing on my CNS.

I was told that going to failure every set is no good. Instead, go to near failure and do more sets may be better. Can we have more views here? ;D

What about doing 1 exercise of 10 sets versus 3 exercises of 3 sets each?

[Hardcore]

taxing on CNS? I agree thats you you take a week break after every 8 weeks of bodybuilding

you can have 1 exercise of 10 sets i do that to shock my weak muscle.... especially my triceps... riot bombing

[ultimate]

Hardcore said:

taxing on CNS? I agree thats you you take a week break after every 8 weeks of bodybuilding

you can have 1 exercise of 10 sets i do that to shock my weak muscle.... especially my triceps... riot bombing

One week lay off after every 4-8 weeks sounds reasonable. ;D

10 sets of ten to near failure, let me try it again. ;D

[Toycar]

hoho, i see, you're only good at nutrition ;D

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Toycar said:

hoho, i see, you're only good at nutrition ;D

Sure there are certain scientific things at training I may not know. But if it is just the standard training stuff, I should have tried and read before. I have more than 20 BB books in my own library and some are pretty good. Nutrition books I have over 100.

If I thought I have learned everything, that's when I will stop learning. I have lots of questions about training after I interact with captj, too busy to clear the doubts at the moment, but will ask him when I am more free. ;D

[ultimate]

Toycar said:

hoho, i see, you're only good at nutrition ;D

Thanks for the article you recommend at T-mag. Very solid. ;D

But 10 sets of 3 reps? Most trainers believe 6-8 reps is best for muscle gain, below 6 reps is best for strength gain, over 12 reps is not so good for hypertrophy.

Any comments from bros here? ;D

[Toycar]

i started 4 x 10 and noticed gains, but it's time consuming, so i usally do it for my heavy stuff

[ultimate]

Toycar said:

i started 4 x 10 and noticed gains, but it's time consuming, so i usally do it for my heavy stuff

I used to train very intensive and short 2-3 sets per exercise, 3 movements per part. But today I do ten sets of ten excluding warm up, with each set near but not to failure I seems to enjoy the workout. So much that I train twice today (once in a while), to make up for the 3 weeks lay off.

[jonathan]

Read this to understand how to integrate low/medium/high repetitions, sets and weights altogether to achieve optimum fake and real muscle growth and maintain strength.

www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do;jsessionid=35F91EEC317D8FB85151957C7E9B1112.titan?id=561180

Also, defined muscles is a matter of bodyfat. As for hard muscles, as far as I know only dead people have hard muscles.

[~Xc@libuR~]

;D Yeah man~! That's also as far as I know it... if u hv real real real HARD muscles... u r a STIFF... a deadbody...

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~Xc@libuR~ said:

;D Yeah man~! That's also as far as I know it... if u hv real real real HARD muscles... u r a STIFF... a deadbody...

Hehe there is a product called "Hardbody", does that mean it kills? ;D