adpowah
Active Member
Increasing load is definitely not the only factor to muscle growth, there are a bunch of other factors that come into play such as time under tension, rest time, volume, intensity, form degradation....BUT really sets, reps, intensity are easy to measure and increment up. Now HST also tries to continually increase your intensity over a cycle by reducing your total reps. This is to setup a continually increasing intensity to push through previous plateaus at the end but taking advantage of a deconditioned state at the beginning. Likely though even that isn't critical for most early lifters.
So with that in mind why do you want 12, 9 and 16 sets? If its just what you want, then just divide the sets by whatever number of times you workout. That being said, if you intend to make the number of sets you are doing static you need to figure out how to increment your reps and intensity.
