reps and sets

[ry-rhino]

Hi,
I am wanting to understand this information from the Men's Health big book of exercises. See the image below. I am not sure if the book has a typo. If it is not a typo (which it probably isn't) why does it say to do only one set of a bicep exercise and 5 sets of a tricep exercise?
It says to do 10 reps of a bicep exercise and then do 5 sets of a tricep exercise.
Does that mean to do 10 reps of a bicep exercise and then do 5 sets of 10 reps of a tricep exercise. Then repeat that for 10 minutes? Is this correct?

Thanks for your help.

 

[stevesmi]

these magazines are the worst place to get training info

 

[ry-rhino]

these magazines are the worst place to get training info

how does this help to answer my question?
someone please answer my question thanks

 

[MUSTANG_18]

Hi,
I am wanting to understand this information from the Men's Health big book of exercises. See the image below. I am not sure if the book has a typo. If it is not a typo (which it probably isn't) why does it say to do only one set of a bicep exercise and 5 sets of a tricep exercise?
It says to do 10 reps of a bicep exercise and then do 5 sets of a tricep exercise.
Does that mean to do 10 reps of a bicep exercise and then do 5 sets of 10 reps of a tricep exercise. Then repeat that for 10 minutes? Is this correct?

Thanks for your help.

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how does this help to answer my question?
someone please answer my question thanks

@ry-rhino welcome to the EF family

so I'm checking the mag
let me ask you, you have a physical magazine on hand?
how long are you?
clarify first

 

[stevesmi]

how does this help to answer my question?
someone please answer my question thanks

my answer is dont' pay attention to it. its just crap to fill up space.

i would hit triceps on your push split and biceps on your pull split. now how you do it and which exercises is debatable but you ideally want to hit around 6-8 sets

 

[SteveMobsterG]

how does this help to answer my question?
someone please answer my question thanks

It doesn't say what you said it does. It says 1 of each. Then underneath it says 5 reps (biceps) and 5 SETS (triceps). It's more unclear (like a bit went missing in editing) than 'wrong' as such

As to why - ask the author or the editor

 

[Quadsweep]

nobody in the gym trains 1 set
makes no sense

 

[BodyMonster34]

bro i didn't get my physique doing 1 set
i lift hard even after 20 hours of tanker work

 

[JasonPriest]

there are many ways to train
I own a couple gyms and I see variations of everything but I've never heard of one set workouts that's a new one to me

 

[wootoom]

I think you might be mixing up what they mean
in any event why don't you put up a log and do some training

 

[Vadim Fedorov]

I hope that you can post up some information
post up your current workout and go from there with a log

 

[2Thick]

lots of people are doing Logs on the main page
go there and post a log of your training and will help you

 

[e2]

I like that your posting this
it just shows how much battery information that are out there

 

[StevenDarwinMD]

LOG APPROVED - PLEASE POST A LOG

 

[Ulter]

we want to see you put up a log with your full workouts included
that will help us give you a blueprint that would work better for you

 

[chesty]

everybody has different goals
I don't see one set for arms making much sense

 

[ROIDDERS]

keeping it simple is a good tip
but how you implement it and what the article says is something very different

 

[ceo]

Bros your arms need to be trained hard
arm training needs to be exhausted

 

[ry-rhino]

the information says to alternate between a bicep and tricep exercise for 10 minutes it is not only one set of the exercises

the scan is the exact page from the BOOK called Men's Health Big Book of Exercises

I am guessing that the information means 5 reps of a bicep exercise and 5 reps of a tricep exercise not 5 sets of a tricep exercise

thanks for all of your help

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

Just use common sense when building your routine. No way you would do 5x more on triceps.

 

[ballin2504]

I’m not a fan of these

 

[25homes]

Mix it up

 

[Noah Wixx]

This magazine and article i would not take the advice from it at all.

 

[RoySimpson]

take a look at the logs on here!