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    Quote Originally Posted by RBIZZY View Post
    THANKS SOULSTEALER! thats seams like a good plan... im a fitness consultant for golds gym so i know a little about muscles and how they work.... i was just trying to put some good thought into this bulker cycle... a few "old school" body builders where telling me things like "when your doing biceps you should only do 12 sets, thats all bicep excersices added together, at the most. that any more and your just breaking down your muscles...." so i was wanting to see if anyone here heard of that, and if so then what would the numbers be for each body area.... im always trying to learn more. so thanks everyone for the feed back. i really do apriciate it!
    12 sets of biceps? seems like a bit much
    mine looks something like(set wise)
    chest-9-11 sets
    tris-5-7
    back-9-11
    bis-5-7
    traps-6
    shoulders-8-9
    legs 12-15 and thats hitting all 3, quads, hams, and calves

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    Quote Originally Posted by xlxBigSexyxlx View Post
    12 sets of biceps? seems like a bit much
    mine looks something like(set wise)
    chest-9-11 sets
    tris-5-7
    back-9-11
    bis-5-7
    traps-6
    shoulders-8-9
    legs 12-15 and thats hitting all 3, quads, hams, and calves
    Thats very similar to my workout each muscle group gets hit once a week except for legs I do 12 sets for quads 6 sets of hammies and 6-9 sets for calves....(they are split up ofcourse)

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