Exhaustion vs. Less Reps, More Sets for Chin-Ups, Push-ups, etc.
I was talking to a guy at the gym today, and we were talking about chin-ups..
I mentioned how I could do 10, but then my next ones were 5, then 3, basically doing it to exhaustion on each set (sometimes I feel like I could do 11 on my first one, but then my successive ones suffer).
I do this every workout where I'm doing chin-ups (other days I'll do barbell rows), same number of reps every time..
He was saying how it might be better to do more sets of lower reps, like 5 sets of 5, as that way I'm doing 50 instead of just 18..
He mentioned that it's recommended in Ahnuld's ABC's of Bodybuilding..
I'm plateauing on push-ups as well.. I'll do 26, then 10, then 8..
Thoughts?
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