Workout assistance

[charger69]

Have recently seen a workout program that is 4 sets with increasing weight and the first set is 20 reps, then 15, 12, 10. This is accomplished with supersets of the same muscle group. What is the purpose of this workout? Is it the fast twitch/ slow twitch muscle incorporation? A little high on reps for this maybe?
I know that there are experts on here that this is a no brainer. I have pyramided my weights but about half the reps.

[Buster Brown]

Sounds like a chicks workout. If you are training for hypertrophy then your working sets should be in the 6-8 rep range.....even an occasional set of 4-5. All kidding aside that w/o may be more of a conditioning routine or sport specific.

[KBall32]

Sounds like a chicks workout. If you are training for hypertrophy then your working sets should be in the 6-8 rep range.....even an occasional set of 4-5. All kidding aside that w/o may be more of a conditioning routine or sport specific.

Agree 100% maybe one or two warm up at that range. Lift to failure in the 6-10. Superset are good.

[Khazima]

Have recently seen a workout program that is 4 sets with increasing weight and the first set is 20 reps, then 15, 12, 10. This is accomplished with supersets of the same muscle group. What is the purpose of this workout? Is it the fast twitch/ slow twitch muscle incorporation? A little high on reps for this maybe?
I know that there are experts on here that this is a no brainer. I have pyramided my weights but about half the reps.

This is how kai greene works out, pretty sure it's that exact rep scheme. Nothing really close to failure just lots of volume/squeezing/contracting/getting pumped and getting the work in.

[papathesmurf]

The Pre-exhaustion principle is used to hit muscle fibers that you would normally miss in a traditional workout this is accomplished by exhausting the portions of what ever muscle group you are working forcing the other parts of the movement to work harder. Arnold Schwarzinagers book "The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding" goes into this principle in detail.

Example as shown in the book.

Exercise: Flat bench
Muscles worked: Pecs, front delts, tricep
Normal result: Front delts, triceps hit failure before pectorals.
Pre exhaust w/ flys result: Front delts, Triceps and pectorals hit failure around the same time.

I use this method once every few leg days by doing leg extensions before I squat. Seems to work good.