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Old 09-07-2007, 02:55 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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One or two sets of 5 on deads would be good. But not 2 to 3. In that case do the 4 ramped sets.

Aim for hitting you current max on week 4.

You'd be much better off doing militaries instead of incline bench on wednesday unless there is some specific reason you can't overhead press. But if you do militaries try 3 sets instead of 4. It never ceases to amaze me how people don't recognize that mp's are really taxing despite the fact you use a lighter load. With bench your whole body is being supported so you only need to stabilize the WEIGHT. With overhead pressing not only do you need to stabilize the weight OVERHEAD but you need to stabilize the body with this....that is a whole body lift. Doing 5 less reps on wednesday with mp's isn't really going to make it much of a "light day" just because the weight is ligher. Lighter means lighter with the same exercise.

If you do inclines you can get away with the 4 sets but depending on how heavy your inclines are. If they are really significantly lighter then it's probably a pretty high incline which to me pointless and you may as well do MP's.

This is kind of like using leg press for you primary exercise and then using squats for "light day", lol, just because the leg press uses a "heavier" weight.

If you use inclines and it is a high enough incline to be significantly lighter then you may as well do MP's, imo, because to em anything more than a slight incline is pointless.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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