cwick0 said:
The best example is to talk to some big boys, which as the numbers prove, who have huge arms. It appears that all of us to high volume and whala, you can see the dividends. It must be magical.
REMEBER ONE THING...it takes a guy who lifts heavy weights for his muscles to warm up. It takes me at least 4 sets on bench to finally warm up. If i were doing less weight i could warm up faster, but that isnt the case. One, okay very few can, who does 315 on bench doesnt just throw 315 on the bench and rep it out. They have to warm up to it.
Lastly the one set phenomenon is complete bs. I would be absolutely shocked if you had big muscular arms!
Couple of things right fast. Coming from me that means 5 minutes
I don't think high volume's magical. It didn't do much for me, which is a shame since I love training and being pumped
.
In fact, the one set stuff, which I know you love
, helps me grow best. And for the record, my arms aren't puny and nonmuscular, nor are Doggcrapp's or his disciples' (check out the training forum at Chad Nicholl's Muscle Mayhem...several of his guys, some of whom are natty, are posting pictures and obviously growing like crazy).
That said, any low volume guy who says he doesn't do warm-ups is lying, stupid or both. I definitely agree you can't just throw around 315 without warming up...doing so would be foolish!
I suppose one could therefore say Doggcrapp, his guys and I don't do "one set" as such; with 3 or more warm-ups, we might do as many as 6 "sets" of an exercise. Example for bench press:
135x10
185x6
225x4
275x2
315x1
345xfailure
However, since all but one set is very easy/non-taxing, we don't count them. Specifically, we don't count them as "work sets" because they're not the efforts that stimulate growth--the last one @ 345, taken to failure plus rest-pauses, is.
-Sean