Who's idea was it that 3 sets is the rule?
Who's idea was it that 3 sets is the rule?
Logan Watson
Colton Bennett
A retard? 5x5 is ideal.
Matthew Williams
10 sets all to failure.. 5x5 is shit
Gabriel Perez
3 sets has always been considered the minimum, and its much easier to convince someone who doesn't exercise to just do 3 sets of anything rather than 5. Its never been considered the standard or anything, but I would say its a rule that you should do at least 3 sets of anything.
Carson Mitchell
t. person who has never trained
Nolan Foster
Whatever fag I train 4 days a week
Gavin Bailey
After a few month of training when I first started, I began doing this but would limit myself at like 14 reps. After the newbie gains stopped I had relatively slow progress, but then I limited myself to a maximum of 7 sets but mostly aimed for 5 and started to notice better results.
I'm not sure if you're baiting or whatever, but there are very few exercises you should be doing to failure and I believe they are all calisthenics.
Elijah Stewart
>Who's idea was it that 3 sets is the rule?
Forgot the name it was some US doc who rehabilitated veterans after WW2. He stole most of his shit from German books on physical education, interpreted it wrong and added his own shit.
Sounds made up? It isn't.
Eli King
yes yes
10x10 on squats
then 10x10 on pullups
then 10x10 overheadpress
everyday
lets go
Colton Ross
Found it:
>In the latter years of the Second World War, the number of American servicemen who had sustained orthopedic injuries was overwhelming the nation's military hospitals. The backlog of patients was partly because of the sheer number of soldiers involved in the war effort, but it was exacerbated by rehabilitation protocols that required lengthy recovery times. In 1945, an army physician, Dr. Thomas L. DeLorme experimented with a new rehabilitation technique. DeLorme had used strength training to recover from a childhood illness and reasoned that such heavy training would prove beneficial for the injured servicemen. DeLorme's new protocol consisted of multiple sets of resistance exercises in which patients lifted their 10-repetition maximum. DeLorme refined the system by 1948 to include 3 progressively heavier sets of 10 repetitions, and he referred to the program as "Progressive Resistance Exercise." The high-intensity program was markedly more successful than older protocols and was quickly adopted as the standard in both military and civilian physical therapy programs. In 1951, DeLorme published the text Progressive Resistance Exercise: Technic and Medical Application, which was widely read by other physicians and medical professionals. The book, and DeLorme's academic publications on progressive resistance exercise, helped legitimize strength training and played a key role in laying the foundation for the science of resistance exercise.