periodization vs. pyramid sets
I've been reading an immense amount of info on periodization lately, and what alot of studies show is that what happends when you move onto another cycle is that your previous gains from the hypertrophy or strength cycle start to diminish. With that being would a simple pyramid be more effective to incorperate these rep ranges and to stimulate the different fibers? for example something like this:
15reps(warm-up set)
10reps (hypertrophy set)
6reps (strength/hypertrophy set)
2reps (strength)
this way the reps are spaced out enough so they do not really interfer with the other sets, and you're stimulating all muscle fibers inorder to keep a constant state of stimulation for all ranges, in other words, the muscle gained using the rep range of 6 will not atrophy becasue it's being hit weekly, and so on for 10 and 2, unlike when using periodization, you would go weeks without hitting a rep range which will cause the muscle that is used at that rep range to atrophy. Same goes for strength, if you're not training in that rep range, how do you expect to get stronger if you're taking weeks off of training these fibers or training the CNS to recruit more fibers??? does any of this make sense to anyone???