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@ray0174 First is asking for a shoulder injury if you use any significant amount of weight, second has been a staple in bodybuilding for a long time in one way or another, third could be done easier by just doing a one arm lat pulldown

@jdez From my experience with myself, training partners, past clients, family members, all that, I've learned to trust the pump for what rep range you should work in. Whatever rep range gives you the craziest pump seems to be the best rep range for that given body part. For my chest and biceps...

@mgunz I can't see the results then. That was the point I made. Your example is completely out of line by comparison. It's a question of which I think is more impressive, not someone ready to physically hurt me asking me how I want to be hurt

@mgunz Oh cool, I didn't know there was an option to see results or consider them to be equal. Whoops. I should have picked that option in the poll then right?

@spykat19 I think they're equally impressive. I had to pick at random because I think they're equal

@cybernetic The hell is he talking about? I've gone well above and beyond what my systemic MRV could handle in the past. If you stress the body enough it stops recovering fully and begins to break down instead

@mybridges Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck but it was just a little bit, so I can still be a little natty, r-right?

@luxchmi That's adding around 80 pounds of muscle to your frame. That's fucking insane to try and do and next to impossible natty. Dorian Yates in Blood and Guts said himself that he had put on around 70 pounds of muscle since he started and he was on drugs with top tier bodybuilding genetics...

@kalwa A lot of people do. Its why you see so many people who've gotten 4 months of results in 2 years of lifting. Most people don't train hard enough. 10 sets should be good in your case though

@kalwa There are 3 ways the word failure is used in the fitness industry. Voluntary failure, technical failure, and mechanical/muscular failure. Voluntary failure is when you stop once the set starts to get hard. Technical failure is when you stop because form starts to break down...

@kalwa Only if you're pushing to genuine muscular failure. Like when the weight nearly drops on you and you need to catch your breath afterwards when you did a 8 second grinding rep at the end of your set. It'll feel like you need a 5 minute rest and even then the weight feels like it multiplied...

@kendraw My friend, Arnold was notorious for taking absurd amounts of steroids even compared to the other people he competed with for the Olympia title. He needed the roids to recover from that crazy workload. On top of that he only ran the type of program you posted for maybe a month at a time...

@ziia89 My lack of muscular endurance? In the entire 14 years I've been lifting not once have I seen someone push to genuine failure and have a similar number on their next set. Not. One. Single. Time. A genuine maximum effort set will burn all your other sets to the ground. If you truly believe...

@ziia89 Or maybe what you think is failure for you isn't actual muscular failure. Pushing yourself and pushing until the muscle fails are two different things

@williamgoode You didn't push to muscular failure if those are the reps you got after the first set. If you push a muscle to it's limit then your reps after the first set fall off a cliff

@mariaisabella You have the basis for a great program and I'm still standing by my hypotheses that you're just at that stage where results are going to be slower now. Congrats on being intermediate dude 🎉 Welcome to the family. I would recommend specializing for blocks to focus on bringing body...

@kalwa If you're actually pushing to failure, as in set 1 is ten reps, and set 2 you either have to take off 40 pounds or you'll only get three reps, then that's more than enough

@mariaisabella This is honestly a great program. I can't see anything really wrong with it. You may be at that stage where increases in weight and reps is only going to come every few sessions if you've been continuously training for the past year. Have you been running this program for that...

@mariajo Do front squats instead of back squats. If you hit failure or you feel an injury coming or something you can dump the bar forward and stop the set right there