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Great read. But I think everyone has to fing what works for him best and I can only speak what works best for myself but not other. I'm tall with long limbs ecto who has hard time putting on mass and used to train with very heavy weights in the past - squats with 455 and bench press with 375 (that's very heavy for me) fo reps, every set (did 9-12 sets per bp) to failure, every workout no delaods no lighter training sessions etc and I grew a little bit but was flat no matter how much I ate (too much sets to failure, too much weight on the bars) switched to lower volume DC training - grow a lot better but started to have joint problems and with rest pause on every set 3-4 times per week was too much for my CNS too...now I'm training with a lot higher volume 16-20 sets per body part sometimes few times per week, but only 3-4 sets are to failure or very close to failure with as much as I can use, other than that - few reps shy from failure with moderate wights kinda "feeling" sets and I've found this works best for me, I grow a lot better, recover a lot better and I'm a lot fuller and bigger on lower dosages. this training style keep me very lean too wothout minimal to none cardio
I agree more with you tr my workouts are similar to yours, DC training killed my joints and I have found for me that for leg developement high volume works best. And as far as training body parts 2 x wk with the job I have I would never recover so thats a individual thing