Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below When I read Muscle & Fitness, Flex, or any of those mags I see that when the pro's list out their routine for a body part they often have way more than the standard 15 sets per workout. Do they really do that all in the same day. Sorry if this is a stupid question but it confuses me to this day.
Routines in Magazines
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capitalT said:
Naw, that's not a stupid question.
Lots of times I seriously doubt the routines reported in those rags are what the guy actually does. So many of them are obviously penned by the same ghost-writer, so at best what you read is a second-hand account of Joe Blow Pro's workout. More likely, it's just a fabrication, little more than an opportunity for the ghost-writer to try and impress people with his Big Word of the Month (tm).
There are times that the very high volume trainers in the pro ranks actually do train that way, but if you looked at individual sets and reps, you wouldn't always see "good form" or anything near failure. Jay Cutler admits he "trains sloppy," and he's said many times that his days of 225 lbs. barbell curls are over.
(Okay...so if he's training much lighter, but still very sloppy, how in the hell is he working as hard as he used to? Doing more reps and/or sets only takes you so far.)
Now, I've known high volume bros that worked their balls off. There are a handful of guys here who'd qualify. But have they had Peter McGough's or Julian Schmidt's "help" to write a training article in FLEX? No. Not yet, anyway.
Hope that's of some help.
breathinbleedout
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Don't take those shit literally, remember many of the pro's are juicing, which required a much more hardcore workout regiment.
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