Volume training question

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do you train with insane volume?

[Bluto]

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[pumpster]

Bluto is our volume guru, i defer to him on this. His pics confirm the effects of huge amounts of volume.

I did high volume years ago, believe in low to moderate volume now. If you train seriously (with intensity) that's all that's needed for size IMO. The extra sets become counterproductive from my experience.

5-7 sets for arms, delts, etc.

6-9 (tops) sets for lats, legs, chest.

This excludes warmup sets-these should all be intense sets, most or all to failure.

[Zach Trowbridge]

For big muscles like the lats, quads and chest, 10-15 sets per muscle group.  Bis, tris, hamstrings, delts, 6-10 sets per muscle group.  Not including warmup sets, obviously (I would consider anything under 65-70% 1RM to be a warmup set in most cases, 1-3 warmup sets per muscle group).  If you're a drug-assisted lifter, you can probably handle more volume, but if you're natural, that's probably going to be a pretty good amount of volume.

[LatsMcGee]

I believe for hypertrophy you should train with moderate volumes at a fairly high frequancy.