How many sets should one do at a minnimum per exercise?

[Rami]

warmup + 3 sets or is this to little?

[El Diablo Blanco]

warmup + 3 sets or is this to little?

Stop reading FLEX magazine.  Depending on your energy that day, don't go in on a set in mind, just lift hard. I used to think, ok, set two, 8 reps and then stop at 8, but then I realized what a waste, so I just pushed harder to before failure, found myself doing 12 reps, maybe 15 if I'm feeling hyped.  Sometimes I am still hyped so I super set with something else.  By the time I am done I am taxed.  Go by feeling.

[cswol]

I only do 1 to 2 sets per exercise these days, what good is it to sit and train on one exercise for 20 minutes doing 5 sets, you can have your wokout half way finished at the 20 minute mark and get in way more exercises at 1 set per exercise, all sets to failure.

[Rami]

So going to failure every time? I don't like to squat till failure or deadlift till failure, I think technique and focus diminish to much risking injury

[Grape Ape]

So going to failure every time? I don't like to squat till failure or deadlift till failure, I think technique and focus diminish to much risking injury

I would not squat or DL to failure ever.

[hardgainerj]

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[Psychopath]

I train based off instinct. Makes workouts fun and spontaneous.

I also don't limit myself with a set amount of sets. I work a certain muscle or movement till my performance significantly decreases, then i know that i've stimulated adequate muscle breakdown.

But to put a number on it, it usually takes anywhere from 5-12 sets/body part to achieve cumulative fatigue.

[cswol]

psycopath said it well train on insticnt, when i was younger, I would do a circuit of squats, leg press, lunges, and SL deadlifts, found myself laying on the floor of the backroom of golds venice many times, another thing i like to do is the 100 reps no stopping also, that shocks the muscles well.

[Grape Ape]

found myself laying on the floor of the backroom of golds venice many times

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[El Diablo Blanco]

So going to failure every time? I don't like to squat till failure or deadlift till failure, I think technique and focus diminish to much risking injury

Before failure, so you need to not go by a set number but how you feel.  If you say you are going to do 8 reps and stop at 8 but could have done 12 then you wasted a set.  So blast until you are able to do it on your own then rack the weight. 

[cswol]

grape ape, i said the gym floor not the posing room...........

[Soul Crusher]

Just go in and go crazy for an hour or so.  Put on Slayer or Ozzy or something and just really go all out and leave the place w everything left on the gym floor.

Don't count sets, don't count reps, just go to war like your life depends on it. 

[_aj_]

Minimum: 1. I have seen guys grow like weeds on 1 set per exercise.

That said, I do 3 at a minimum.

[JasonH]

Pretty much what Diablo Blanco and Psychopath said: go by how you feel on the day.

The object of the exercise whenever you set foot in the gym is to tear that muscle down in whichever way you can so it grows back bigger.

Now if you're capable of causing muscle teardown after just two sets of one exercise, then great, stop there and move on. If however the muscles are being stubborn that day and are only responding after doing four or five sets per exercise then so be it.

Nothing wrong with counting reps and sets, as long as you're completely fucked by the end of it and leave the gym knowing that you couldn't have done any more then you've done your job.

[local hero]

i like to shock the muscles by training 20mins each hr everyday, thats 24 anabolic windows per day, a little tip i picked up from big rami

[cswol]

i wish i had big ramy's medicine cabinet...........that fucker probably has 5 times the juice and gh as the other pros do, in egypt a amp of sostenon is $1.50

[local hero]

last time i was in egypt i seen some of the biggest bouncers about, there were some huge units over there

chemists will run after you down the street if you carry some size

[WalterWhite]

i wish i had big ramy's medicine cabinet...........that fucker probably has 5 times the juice and gh as the other pros do, in egypt a amp of sostenon is $1.50

Doesn't he live and train in Kuwait now?

[local hero]

i would put money on big rami not spending a single pennie on gear or food even,,,,, they look after those who are blessed by alah in those countries

[Psychopath]

How much do you guys think people make in Egypt? These guys can't afford to buy bread and tomato's, let alone a buffet of hormones.

[Hulkotron]

I would say at least one set, hth.

[local hero]

just 1 set to failure.

its all drugs

you grow outside the gym

dont miss the anabolic window opurtunity

creatin homohydrate frontload for maximum vascularity.

hope this helps.

ps only pussys warm up, its summer, are you freezing or something.
dont waste that energy you muscle might shrink

focus on the 1 failure set.

squeeze hard.

walk with ils, to be intimidating and let eevryone know without words that youre not in the gym to fuck around, no chit chat, only hardore.

let them feel they gonna be shut down if they dare look at you in any too selfconfident way.

yes, make sure to put your game face on soon as you hit those lats hard and stick your arms out as far as they can go, all this effort will be wasted without mean stare, show u mean buisness and may throw hands without warning

[Soul Crusher]

Maybe goodrum can address this topic during his show?