Quote Originally Posted by muscle_20 View Post
Nice posts guys.
Well personally my off season training usually goes on a 4 day per week or a 1 on one off split.
Several warm ups for each exercise which could in a way be called working sets that do not go to failure and then 1 set to failure i do between 2-7 exercises for each body part. So including warm ups total sets for lets say back could be 30 but i only count the end set where i put in max effort.
That said i some times do things like very high rep sets and all sort of other techniques, however, one variable never changes and thats gym time i am always done within 1 hour in fact i prefer to be done within 30 minutes if possible.

I guess i have always cycled my training but i go with how my body feels not some set routine ie i may go heavy on deadlifts in a lower rep range like 700lb for 3-5 reps per set for a couple of weeks and then i feel my cns is taking a beating so i drop it back and do 20 rep sets with 405lb.

Having trained as a powerlifter for many years (won a world and euro title as teen and junior) i have never been into forced reps i find them pretty useless at least for 99% of the time, i prefer straight sets but vary things like rep range.

I also agree with you that training past failure with methods such as forced reps or rest pause are pretty useless 99% of the time and that straight sets are the way to go!

It doesn't surprise me that you have set records in power-lifting. You have some serious genetics!!!!!!