FOR the high volume guys

[IronLion2]

The heavier I train, the lower volume I use, the lighter I train, the higher volume I use.

In all areas of bodybuilding the key is figuring out what is "enough" doing more than this will always reduce results (if it doesn't, you aren't doing enough), this isn't broscience, it's brophilosophy, and it applies to everything.

Ive really been dying to do a write up on this.

Volume=/=Work Load. Volumes fucking irrelevant, what you described was work load which is. But even in that intensity will always be the driver for both hypertrophy and strength, workload varies for each lifter because we cannot (easily) quantify intensity, it is not an external factor like work load thats easy to calculate and replicate. External factors are dumb and shouldnt be the focal point of your trainning, focus on the intensity and keep the total workload under your max recoverable curve. If those parameters are met you'll grow and small variables like frequency, load, volume become less unimportant.

 

[Kaladryn]

Ive really been dying to do a write up on this.

Volume=/=Work Load. Volumes fucking irrelevant, what you described was work load which is. But even in that intensity will always be the driver for both hypertrophy and strength, workload varies for each lifter because we cannot (easily) quantify intensity, it is not an external factor like work load thats easy to calculate and replicate. External factors are dumb and shouldnt be the focal point of your trainning, focus on the intensity and keep the total workload under your max recoverable curve. If those parameters are met you'll grow and small variables like frequency, load, volume become less unimportant.

I agree but would add that intensity varies from session to session within the individual also, I judge how much I'm going to do for a muscle as I go through each workout, although I may have a basic plan beforehand, I often adjust it. This is my one issue with "log book" training. Accidently phoning it in isn't an issue for me, doing too much is.

 

[IronLion2]

I agree but would add that intensity varies from session to session within the individual also, I judge how much I'm going to do for a muscle as I go through each workout, although I may have a basic plan beforehand, I often adjust it. This is my one issue with "log book" training. Accidently phoning it in isn't an issue for me, doing too much is.

Agreed, a log book is for linear progression only IMO

 

[maldorf]

I like keeping a log book. I make notes in there too, like when I injure myself. I can look back later and see what might have contributed to it. I also take notes on how I am feeling in the gym. To me it is like a diary.

I still have the logbook I was using when I had my heart attack. I wrote down my symptoms when I finished the squats and drove home. When I got home from my 6 days in the hospital I wrote down there at the end of the session in big letters "HEART ATTACK". Now I can look back and remember that day.