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Originally Posted by hrdgain81
Personally I agree with you completely IB, but not everyone wants to be a monster. There are advantages to doing 8,10,12,15 reps a set, although they may not be strength, or even muslce stimulating advantages.
for instance, HST starts off in the 15's, one perticular reason is because sets like that have been shown to improve joint elasticity. Also, if your goal is to drop body fat, higher rep ranges can be used to create a cardio like effect ... especially when supersetting, or doing a glycogen depletion workout, a la UD2.
IMO if your goal is strength/mass you cant beat low rep sets with heavy resistance. Its just that simple, but I think eric was getting at, not everyone has the same goals, so you cant just prescribe sets/rep ranges as if they are the same as you.
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This is all true and I'll get to my rebutable of Eric's post later but I've based all my statements assuming that the goal IS hypertrophy. This is BodyBuilding dot net, isn't it?? ;)
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