Phil Hernon style training (every body part 6-7 days a week)

juggy38 · Feb 7, 2021

I tried U/L/U/L/off/repeat

My knees started aching like week 2

xpoc · Feb 7, 2021

tornquad201 said:
4 total sets are 3 warm ups and 1 too failure

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.

tornquad201 · Feb 7, 2021

xpoc said:
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

xpoc · Feb 7, 2021

tornquad201 said:
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.

Dens228 · Feb 8, 2021

xpoc said:
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.

xpoc · Feb 8, 2021

Dens228 said:
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"

KTT · Feb 8, 2021

xpoc said:
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 .....