Originally Posted by
ttwarrior1
Mayan doesnt have a clue, living in the 80s weightlifing world.
Example: alot of people don't know alot about weightlifting, so lets use basketball as an example.
If you knew very little about basketball, there is a great chance you wouldn't have a clue who john caliperi is.
But you would know who Michael Jordan is.
Now you have a son that wants to go to a basketball camp and learn how to become a better player. Who do you choose? If you didn't know better you would choose Jordan because he's arguably the greatest of all time and Caliperi sucked at basketball.
Wrong choice, the best choice would be Caliperi.
Just because your good at something doesnt mean you know what your doing or qualifty to tell others on how to properly do something.
This is why weightlifters in whole always were and always will be known as one of the dumbest groups of people off all time, even dumber than fitness pro blonds.
Arnold is the greatest bodybuilder of all time so why don't we just follow what he recommends??? Thats right, because very little of what he said works.
Think about it opie. A weight you can do ten reps with and for whatever reason you decided to do one rep, would you ever grow or gain strength? Of course not. Its the last rep thats the hardest and the rep that causes the body to gain muscle and strength. But only if that last rep is more weight or an extra rep from the previous workout.
The stimulus responsible for increasing size and strength always was and always will be the last rep of a set carried to failure. All the other reps pretty much do nothing.
Ask every pro bodybuilder than ever existed. They will tell you the same thing. If they started over they would of trained less with more quality. A weightlifting workout is not an endurance contest.
Hey if 4 sets of ten is good, then how is 3 sets not enough and 5 too much? Make sense.