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Keeping the increases in weight the same in both cases, is there some reason why we should follow this rep scheme:
Week 1: 15
Week 2: 15
Week 3: 10
Week 4: 10
Week 5: 5
Week 6: 5
rather than this:
Week 1: 15
Week 2: 13
Week 3: 11
Week 4: 9
Week 5: 7
Week 6: 5
...other than "the need to simplify things so people will understand"?
Shouldn't an increase in weight be followed by a decrease in reps? What is the benefit of keeping the reps fixed while increasing the weights? Only at the end of each two week cycle would you lift anywhere near your max.
This seems weird to me. The "normal" thing would be to adjust the reps in accordance with the increase in weights.
Sure, both are ways to get "progressive loading", but is the first rep scheme preferable to the second? If so, why? I doubt that people are so stupid that they are able only to follow the first scheme and not the second.
I'm in the process of putting together my first HST-program, and I would like to know what rep scheme is preferable. Has anyone experimented with this? And if so, what was the results?
Thank you.
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Keeping the increases in weight the same in both cases, is there some reason why we should follow this rep scheme:
Week 1: 15
Week 2: 15
Week 3: 10
Week 4: 10
Week 5: 5
Week 6: 5
rather than this:
Week 1: 15
Week 2: 13
Week 3: 11
Week 4: 9
Week 5: 7
Week 6: 5
...other than "the need to simplify things so people will understand"?
Shouldn't an increase in weight be followed by a decrease in reps? What is the benefit of keeping the reps fixed while increasing the weights? Only at the end of each two week cycle would you lift anywhere near your max.
This seems weird to me. The "normal" thing would be to adjust the reps in accordance with the increase in weights.
Sure, both are ways to get "progressive loading", but is the first rep scheme preferable to the second? If so, why? I doubt that people are so stupid that they are able only to follow the first scheme and not the second.
I'm in the process of putting together my first HST-program, and I would like to know what rep scheme is preferable. Has anyone experimented with this? And if so, what was the results?
Thank you.
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