Regardless of its many variations, high - intensity training involves keeping the total
volume per body part really low and taking sets to muscle failure.
Usually you break your body parts up into full body workouts or into a 2 - day split and only one exercise is
used per body part.
The basic goals and targets of this training method are to complete 10 sets of 10
repetitions per body part, using the exact same weight for every set.
You choose one or two exercises at the
most per body part and perform a full body routine three times a week.
One of the things that makes German volume training so unique is that you only use one major
exercise per body part.
According to many studies, lifters are able to generate more force when training one arm / leg at a time, so make sure to include at least one unilateral exercise
per body part on every workout.
Based on personal experience and reading the literature, — these are my general recommendations for volume per week,
per body part for hypertrophy.
Percentage of bee individuals (n = 20
bees per body part and control) showing grooming or wing flapping behaviour including responses at the stimulated body parts (black) and at unstimulated body parts (grey).
As incredible as it may seem for some experienced trainees who've been brainwashed by the mainstream, commercial bodybuilding bullshit, training with one «hard» set
per body part twice per week can be quite effective for genetically typical trainees.
I don't recommend doing more than 2 exercises
per body part because you'll be doing a high number of total sets
For volume, I really can't see anyone ever needing to do more than 15 total sets
per body part over the course of the week, specifically for body parts like chest, back, quads and hamstrings.
A study in the «Journal of Applied Physiology» found that a weight - training regimen consisting of high repetitions (10) combined with a high number of sets (10) and a limited amount of rest in between sets
per body part produced a 67 - percent elevation in testosterone and a 25-fold increase in growth hormone.
You can work 3 or 4 days a week using the upper / lower split.Training 4 days a week allows you to perform more
volume per body part in each training session.
This makes it more difficult for the novice to start adding in excessive amounts of new lifts to which they will not be able to adapt and progress on quickly as it forces them to keep the volume
per body part in moderation in order to get out of the gym in a timely manner due to having to train everything in every session.
Since you are doing it the all - natural way without the use of performance enhancing drugs, you need slightly more than just one set to
failure per body part (but not too much more).
Yes, you did read that right, the basic idea is to perform just ONE
exercise per body part that you're training, so if you're training chest and back for example, you could go with 10 sets of bench press, followed by 10 sets of chin ups.
For muscle mass building you indicated 4 sets of 12 - 15 reps. Do you mean 4 total
sets per body part.?
Not surprisingly then the idea here is to perform 10 sets of one exercise
per body part.
A general rule of thumb is to perform drop sets with one exercise
per body part.
-- GVT works by targeting a number of motor units within the body, and putting them through an extensive volume and amount of repeated exercise, specifically the 10 sets
per body part that we mentioned previously.
But if you were to choose only one exercise
per body part that you would keep performing for the rest of your life, how would the list look like?
What makes DC training especially unique, is the fact that you only perform one working set
per body part.
At that time, most top - level bodybuilders had long training sessions that included more than 20 sets
per body part, 5 - 6 days a week, and Mike thought they were doing it completely wrong.
He himself typically trained three times a week and his 30 - minute workouts incorporated no more than 5 sets
per body part.
But none the less, much of his routines included one, or at most two exercises
per body part.
Per a meta analysis published by Schoenfeld et al, author Brad Schoenfeld notes that strength can be appreciably increased with as little as five or maybe less sets per week,
per body part.
Based on clear correlations, athletes noted for outstanding body part development were selected on
a per body part basis, and bodybuilders with weaknesses in these areas were omitted from the data pool.
You're probably thinking «Oh, but Garry, all those bodybuilding and men's health magazines tell you to do 5,000 exercises
per body part every day for the best results!»
He usually did just one exercise
per body part.
As you know I have always said that to build amazing muscle and strength with bodyweight exercises you need to follow the proven bodybuilding strategy of keeping the reps between 6 and 10 and the sets between 12 and 16
per body part.