i need help

[imported_doitright orgohome]

hey guys first post.
ive been lerching for a while now but have reached a point where i need to make contact
ive been trying to figure out what exactly to do.
heres as far as ive come....

i wanna do 4 days per week. 3's too lil and 6 is too much

i wanna do the 15, 12, 10, 8, 5, 5, drops. as i feel i would lose interest working 2 weeks towards my 15 RM etc

i am currently doing a 4 day split on a 4 x 6 basis
8 sets chest
12 sets legs
4 sets bis
4 sets tris
13 sets back ( 5 of which are deadlifts )
3 sets traps
8 sets shoulders.

heres what ive come up with so far. same w/out 4 x week
benchpress x1
incdb bench x1
bb military p x1
lat raise x1
deadlift x1
shrugs x1
pull ups x1
bb rows x1
leg curls x1
leg press x1
calf raise x1
skull krush x1
bb curl x1.

now to me that doesmt look half bad as ive got all the major areas covered and just 13 sets per w/out. and doesnt exceed the volume im currently doing and i would superset some unrelated body parts ie calf raise/pull ups, lat raise/leg press to speed the workout without reducing intensity

but the one thing i cant get my head around is how many sets to do. ive put down 1 as i feel doing 2 would take too long.
but ive read a lot of guys doing different amount of sets on different RM's. and different excercises

1 surely the volume CAN stay the same??
2 its the RM that determines the intensity?? an RM is exactly that, an RM. failure is failure after all, right??

so am i heading along the right path ?? or barking up the wrong tree??

any help would be most greatfully appreciated

 

[Fausto]

doitright

You are on the right track, dude, 4x p/week is not too bad but then again it does not differ much from the HST mainline, why not try it?

Yes the volume can stay the same, the reasons are not that complicated, doing too many sets during 15's can lead to overproduction of lactic acid, and resulting in nausea, vomiting, etc, then again not everyone feels this way, but most agree it gets really heavy.

During 10's most like to keep it at 1 or two sets.

During 5's and negs, most feel that the workout did not hit right on the button and so they do an extra set, the right way to do it I'd say is to use any extra sets as warmup sets and do one work set, I feel just "dandy" during the 5's warming up to say 100 Kg. do bench by starting up with 75, then 85, then the 100, feels just right

,but that is personal, others may feel totally different

Supersetting is indeed saving time and getting benefits, wheather you use like you are or to hit lagging bodyparts (hey...starting to sound like a mechanic

LOL).

Hope this helps some...

Ciao