Max-OT not making sense

[Todd]

Originally Posted by Aptar

so if the manual says 2 working sets that doesn’t included the 2 - 3 warming and acclimation sets before that doing 10 pounds less then your 4-6 max seems like alot how many reps do you do?

what my understanding was do 2 warm up sets (per muscle group) then go straight into working sets because if your not overloading your muscles your fatiguing them and overload is what builds muscle

right.............

thanks again

Originally Posted by Firehawk

You can't throw a blanket statement of saying "just do 2 warmup sets". If you squat 100 lbs, then fine. But if you squat 500 lbs, it's going to take alot more warming up get to your working sets. I do not think it's smart to do an acclimation or warmup set 10 lbs awway from your actual working sets, but that's jsut from my experience. I think that's too close to a work set and will cause SOME fatigue. You should try to be as fresh as possible when you get to your working sets.

I personally don't like doing high reps to warm up.

Please read this article about Max OT warm-up, acclimation and working sets. This should clarify all of what is being discussed here.

[Firehawk]

I would tend to agree with that...for the most part.

[Maxgain]

Originally Posted by a_welch503

Sounds like you are doing it right. Max OT is tough. The name Maximum Overload is a hint.


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Yeah as long as it does not stand for maximum overtraining quite a shock to me from 3 days a week and still in and out within 50 minutes.
Anyway its to be expected to take a while to get back into training and it has received a lot of results here so def going to stick with it.

[aptar]

made a thread..... nevermind

[McScruff69]

leg days take about 40 min to 1 hour for me. squats take alot out of me.


all other days im done with the exercises within 35 min