milos, i would love to come to your seminar, but i will not even be in the same country at that time.
i hope to one day attend your gym and i will introduce myself.
i am not a bber per se, although i use bbing exercises for my sport. i use weight training purely to enhance strength, speed and explosive power as only part of a structured training program, which also involves a great deal of interval and endurance type training.
when i retire i intend to follow exclusively bbing, as i believe this to be more satisfying mentally and physically than what i do now.
i agree that changing the angle, motivation, speed of eccentric/concentric with specific movements during a giant set is an effective way to continually stimulate a muscle, but my only point of contention is that you can not perform at maximum intensity for an extended period. this is impossible and all you're doing is, in fact, lowering the athletes ability to perform at maximal intensity ( yes, this is actually a learned and conditioned reponse).
this is the real reason your trainees are using lighter weights during the giant set itself, because they have to to accommodate the decline in intensity. they may have superior conditioning. hell, they may have larger muscles, but that is not my point of contention. muscle building exclusively is anything BUT an exact science anyway.
if you care to perform a standard strength test on your athletes i believe you will find that they, in fact, become weaker and slower over time, anabolic drugs notwithstanding.
put it this way, if you were to take johnny jackson (who competes in bbing and powerlifting) and train him with your system over 8 months you would effectively destroy his powerlifting career. you would have trained him to become weaker and slower.
I would love to see you one day and IF I have a chance to elaborate everything to you - I promise you will consider it...
It is just too much for me to go in details right here and I know I would open can of warms - that I could not close for months...and I don't have that much time...
Consider that EVERYONE adapts to given demand or stimulus...
So take Johny Jackson for example and think what would have happen if I would keep his normal strength exercises in his program and only add a super set after his best lifts...Which means - first two weeks add only additional exercise after his heavy compound move of choice...
Do you think he will increase or decrease his training intensity with this addition?
Next, after 2-3 weeks - add third exercise (as a tri-set)...and see how he responds on that...and than 4th...and so on...
Why would you ever think that workouts like this would be counterproductive?
Now, this is only about training stimulus and conditioning...I assume that every other parameter is at the highest level (nutrition and adequate rest...plus supplementation...not to mention "other" methods...)
I purposely said "weak minded" - to see your response - and obviously I did hit the nerve
- but in reality I was also once like you - just not accepting some things if I thought it was not realistically possible...
Than I saw one guy in San Diego - training in my gym on Midway drive...and he opened my eyes - literally...
He trained about 6 hours a day - every body part - and super intense..
Started with heavy compound moves and than started applying all the other advanced methods (including drop sets and giant sets...)...
While I was convinced that he was on major drugs - he would enter drug free shows all the time - and even though I was convinced that he cheated - he issued the challenge to me - for 10 grand that I can take him to any lab and through every test...
Needless to say - I backed off...as after all I was not sure he was taking anything - but it sure looked like it considering the way he trained and how he looked at the time...
Anyway, I was sure that in matter of few weeks he would slow down and start loosing weight, strength...etc...only to my surprise - he was continuously getting better, stronger, bigger, more muscular...
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Well, that defies the logic...but than I started thinking - why would I consider that he is overtraining JUST BECAUSE HE TRAINS SO MUCH MORE INTENSE THAN ME?
I realized that I was limiting myself as I was weak minded...and I accepted certain limitations...
Human body is a miracle...and while for sure running marathon sounds impossible to all of us - ONE DAY (maybe in the far future) THAT MIGHT BE A CASE...After all records are made to be broken...
So, no hard feelings for my comment (weak mind) - I did it on purpose just to see how you will respond...
Interestingly - many of you change when I turn the "nice page of my book"...and become much nicer...
And that is my intention - to soften up typical getbiger - and show love to everyone...so they just might like it and start showing love towards others...
After all - that's what life is all about...love and unity rather than war...at least in my book...