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Old 03-09-2008, 02:22 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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Bench (heavy day)
- bar x 8 (warmup/stretch)
-135lbs x 4(weight acclimation)
-155lbs x2
-175lbs x 1
-185lbs 3x5


That's "heavy" day?

Heavy is 1 t to 3 reps. OK so I'm overgeneralizing but the point is I see very few people really lifting "heavy" compared to what they consider volume....what you mean is is "heavier" but it still is a "I'm trying to get mass and strength with the same exercise" thing. It's not that it won't make you stronger.

Haha, I think maybe some more people SHOULD read dinosaur training.

Eric Cressey described it very well recently. He is so much better at a clever turn of phrase than I am so I’ll paraphrase him. It is like trying to ride two horses with one ass. So people are trying to ride a powerlifter’s horse with a bodybuilder’s ass. As he said, even if it does have striations in it, it won’t get the job done.

If you are at the point where you NEED heavy versue “volume” days, then you may as well lift HEAVY on heavy day. Not that what you are lifting isn’t heavy it just isn’t HEAVY.
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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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