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If your goal is to get swole (sorry couldn’t help myself), then higher rep lower weight sets with shorter rest periods is the way. But if you want to be as str
by blunte 6y ago
If your goal is to get swole (sorry couldn’t help myself), then higher rep lower weight sets with shorter rest periods is the way.
But if you want to be as strong as possible and stay in a weight category (best strength to bodyweight ratio), you do small sets of big weights with set rest periods long enough to get really bored and fidgety while you watch the clock hands move.
The Russians have known this for a long time, and so have the best performing competitive lifters.
It takes remarkably little besides a lot of food and a caveman simple lifting regime to outperform most of the pretty boys who obsess over the hype programs.
- porb121 6y ago> then higher rep lower weight sets with shorter rest periods is the way In the comment section of an article about how bodybuilders use unsupported folk wisdom, you posted completely baseless folk wisdom with no evidence. > The Russians have known this for a long time, and so have the best performing competitive lifters. The USSR had the best weightlifters decades ago. They don't have especially remarkable powerlifters compared to anyone in the USAPL (or untested feds) today, and they don't have especially elite weightlifters today (see: being banned from the '16 Olympics for doping sanctions).