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[SteelePegasus]

Lee, are you still dieting with the hopes of making the O?
or are you in off season mode?

[Lee_a_priest]

DIETING FOR SHOWS AND SEMINARS AND GUEST POSING HERE AND OVER SEAS.

[SteelePegasus]

Lee, is this for real or some "Flex mag crap"?

lol, would this work for Kamali?

[Lee_a_priest]

no its real i do always 20 sets for bis and tris sometimes more.

[swilkins1984]

no its real i do always 20 sets for bis and tris sometimes more.

Lee, do you count a set not to failure as one of the 20+ sets that you do or do you only count those to failure? As for myself, I would start light and work my way up to my heaviest weight without fatiguing myself and then do about 3 or 4 sets each to failure.

[Lee_a_priest]

Lee, do you count a set not to failure as one of the 20+ sets that you do or do you only count those to failure? As for myself, I would start light and work my way up to my heaviest weight without fatiguing myself and then do about 3 or 4 sets each to failure.

I dont count the warm ups.

[sarcasm]

Lee trains like a man unlike some of these clowns who quit after 8-10 sets of machine movements.

[onlyme]

I dont count the warm ups.

Very neither do I.  And I keep telling my training partners not to count them also.  And I usually only do one warmup set for the whole workout.  If I am doing chest I will do flats first, by the time I go to the incline there is no need to warmup.  That is how Ihave always trained.  When I trained with Ray Mentzer we did a modified version of the Russian Strength workout.  The first set is 80% of your peak.  No warmup.

[240 is Back]

Wayne still havent paid them their money.

They have been paid.

[Jr. Yates]

Very neither do I.  And I keep telling my training partners not to count them also.  And I usually only do one warmup set for the whole workout.  If I am doing chest I will do flats first, by the time I go to the incline there is no need to warmup.  That is how Ihave always trained.  When I trained with Ray Mentzer we did a modified version of the Russian Strength workout.  The first set is 80% of your peak.  No warmup.

I always take my time warming up and stretching. My last chest day I only did one warm up set before doing bench press and I kinda hurt my chest, sucked too because it was on the 1st set! so i had to finish the whole workout still and it really hurt the next day.

[Lee_a_priest]

Very neither do I.  And I keep telling my training partners not to count them also.  And I usually only do one warmup set for the whole workout.  If I am doing chest I will do flats first, by the time I go to the incline there is no need to warmup.  That is how Ihave always trained.  When I trained with Ray Mentzer we did a modified version of the Russian Strength workout.  The first set is 80% of your peak.  No warmup.

Thats were i differ i always do a warm up or two when changing exercises.like from flat to incline i warm up on each movement.better to be safe then sorry.

[swilkins1984]

Thats were i differ i always do a warm up or two when changing exercises.like from flat to incline i warm up on each movement.better to be safe then sorry.

I agree. Plus doing this gives me more confidence doing the movement at my heaviest weight because the muscle is actually fully anticipating the heavy weight to come and not feeling tense.

[Mr. Michael Moore]

Lee, is this for real or some "Flex mag crap"?

lol, would this work for Kamali?

Lee, if you are sure you don't include the warm up sets into the whole account of the 20 plus sets, something is inaccurate, here:

How come you actually hit failure at these reps with a progression in weight? Aren't these warm ups until you get to the heaviest weight outlined in this chart? Or is it right to say that you only take the last set to the absolute failure? If this is the case then I rest my case, because then the chart will make perfect sense with what you said. If not, then for you to hit failure in EACH AND EVERY SET progressing in weight (like the chart shows), you should be doing a classical pyramid , starting higher with the repetitions and the lesser weight, and decreasing the reps as the weights gets heavier. This way I'm sure you would be hitting failure at different stages of rep ranges, with a broad use of weight ranges, too.

I'm only asking this because this has always confuse me, the failure aspect of the training outlined in the articles.

Please, Lee, elaborate on this the best way you can, so I can put this doubt to rest, for good! I'm serious, here!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lee_a_priest]

Lee, if you are sure you don't include the warm up sets into the whole account of the 20 plus sets, something is inaccurate, here:

How come you actually hit failure at these reps with a progression in weight? Aren't these warm ups until you get to the heaviest weight outlined in this chart? Or is it right to say that you only take the last set to the absolute failure? If this is the case then I rest my case, because then the chart will make perfect sense with what you said. If not, then for you to hit failure in EACH AND EVERY SET progressing in weight (like the chart shows), you should be doing a classical pyramid , starting higher with the repetitions and the lesser weight, and decreasing the reps as the weights gets heavier. This way I'm sure you would be hitting failure at different stages of rep ranges, with a broad use of weight ranges, too.

I'm only asking this because this has always confuse me, the failure aspect of the training outlined in the articles.

Please, Lee, elaborate on this the best way you can, so I can put this doubt to rest, for good! I'm serious, here!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes i pyramid say i am doing chest dumbell press i will start at 50 lbs for 12 reps then go 70 for 12 reps then 90 for about 10 Then after that i will start 4 heavy sets  from 130 up to whatever feels heavy that day.hope that helps alittle bit

[Mr. Michael Moore]

Yes i pyramid say i am doing chest dumbell press i will start at 50 lbs for 12 reps then go 70 for 12 reps then 90 for about 10 Then after that i will start 4 heavy sets  from 130 up to whatever feels heavy that day.hope that helps alittle bit

Yes, it helped a little bit , you damn midget (really, really jocking, here!!! I love you, man!!! )

But there's still one piece of the puzzle missing that still 'puzzles' me (LOL) : definition of FAILURE, by your accounts. Let's say, your working sets on the dumbell presses start with the 130 pounders and then you move your way up to whatever feels heavy on that particular day. Do you hit ABSOLUTELY FAILURE with those 130's? At what rep range? And then, on your 3 remaining sets, do you still go after that COMPLETE failure, where you can't move the weight in the positive portion all by yourself, at the same time you keep climbing up the poundages?

Because if you reach failure , absolute failure in all those working sets, while still progressing the poundage (like the chart outlined above), I'm sure that 10 reps to absolute failure with the 130s would be equivalent to a severe decrease in reps on your sucessive sets, as you keep on incrementing the weight, right?!

Still, that's one HELL of a high intensity training. Not for everyone, for sure. It takes a different kinda animal, most def.

[Mr. Michael Moore]

Lee, when you are able to, please answer my last reply. Thanks.