Pretty clear he is doing ONE set to failure on ALL exercises. 3 "warm ups" on big muscles. Thats a total of 4 sets, with only 1 being a working set. On smaller muscles he is doing 2 "warm ups" with ONE set to failure (working set) for a total of 3 sets.
Thank you for your reply
N/P. From what I have read, this is what Hernon has professed, 1 set to failure. I don't think he counts his "warm ups" like the poster does. So Hernon's program (from what I read) might say 1 x failure, but he actually might have done 2-3 preparatory sets to get to that one all out set.
It depends on which of the programs you are talking about..........he has several out there, and he's given me several.
My comment was more directed at some of his youtube vids posted in the past couple years. One set to failure per muscle group. In one vid he even says that in squats you need to finish your set with the bar on the safety racks in the bottom position, otherwise if you could stand up with the weight you didn't "fail"
Squats - finish at the bottom, deadlifts - finish at the bottom .....
Thank you for pointing that out your wisdom is worth a million words
Phil but what about warm up. Do you warm up ea body part first before doing one set to positive failure? No, You work to muscle every day. It's not like the muscle has been in hibernation the last four days
I remember watching one of his more "recent" vids (means within the past few years) where he was minimizing the need for warmups. One quote I remember was he said that your body temperature was already 98.6 so you are already warm. He was being smug obviously, but I do believe the term warm up is synonymous with preparatory sets. For example, if you are strong and can incline press 350x12 to failure I simply cannot imagine you loading the bar to that weight and going all out. Even on a condensed prep, most guys would likely do 135x8, 225x5, 275x1, 315x1 and then the working set of 350. I knew Phil was out there with some of his beliefs but I can't imagine even he would jump right to a 350 incline press or 405 squat without some prep sets.
The thing I found is that training like this your body is always ready too go . I get by with minimal too no warm ups without any issues .
thanks man I see I actually posted in here before lol
Kind of funny exactly one year later and I’m on week 3ish of this.
I have a very different goal physique so I don't check the pics threads or usually comment if I see a pic but yours is very impressive!
Or more thought…the one alteration I am making is I’m doing 3 different full body days and rotating then va how bboy and Justin Harris were doing the same thing h til they couldn’t progress. I like having threee different workouts and a, b, and , and just rotating.
I like it, seems like you have structure with flexibility but also a means to progression. It probably helps that your bought in and enjoying the split. I think that's the key thing, buy into a method and execute it vs worry about what "science" says.
1,000%. When I did this last year I got bored and thought it may be “too much” when I wasn’t even on trt so I just wasn’t into it. Plus my wife was like 8 months pregnant and I just wasn’t into it.
