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Title: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: 240 or bust on May 23, 2005, 05:44:23 PM
There was a guy training today at my gym with a deck of cards. At the start of each set, he'd flip a card, and do that many reps. I think face cards were worth 10 reps. 
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: absent on May 23, 2005, 05:59:49 PM
Was it a paki by any chance?
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: absent on May 23, 2005, 06:04:09 PM
Oh. I thought you met Toxic Avenger without knowing it.
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: Iceman187 on May 23, 2005, 06:21:57 PM
There was a guy training today at my gym with a deck of cards. At the start of each set, he'd flip a card, and do that many reps. I think face cards were worth 10 reps. 



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Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: Flex 215 on May 23, 2005, 06:24:11 PM
I remember in high school hearing of wrestlers going through a deck, and black cards were push-ups and red cards were sit-ups. Jacks were 11, queens 12, kings 13 and aces 14, all the rest were face value. This sounds ok just to help stay in shape, but seems very stupid for bodybuilding.
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: The RimMeKid on May 23, 2005, 06:39:12 PM
There was a guy training today at my gym with a deck of cards. At the start of each set, he'd flip a card, and do that many reps. I think face cards were worth 10 reps. 

nice to hear that somebody is still using the weider deck of cards principle
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: haider on May 23, 2005, 07:37:02 PM
Was it a paki by any chance?
its pakistani, whiteboy  :P
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: Bast00 on May 23, 2005, 10:43:51 PM
whatever reps you can go very heavy with good form is what you want.
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Post by: Sir William Idol on May 23, 2005, 11:25:49 PM
nice to hear that somebody is still using the weider deck of cards principle


nice one
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: Prime on May 24, 2005, 04:45:14 AM
nice to hear that somebody is still using the weider deck of cards principle
ha ha ha lmao ;D
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: weedoutheweak on October 20, 2005, 10:20:39 AM
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Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: 240 or bust on October 20, 2005, 01:26:33 PM
Wait, I've got one more.....

Hey 240, cards determining your rep scheme.................. ....... more like Arby's!

Please explain this joke.  I am trying but it's not becoming clear what you mean.
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: Ledd on October 21, 2005, 03:24:54 AM
I've heard of this in prison stories, never in normal gym environment though.  I dont think it sounds like solid training methods though, IMO.
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Post by: Gary on October 21, 2005, 04:53:53 AM
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nice to hear that somebody is still using the weider deck of cards principle


Classic!
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: Bear03 on October 21, 2005, 08:47:50 AM
I remember in high school hearing of wrestlers going through a deck, and black cards were push-ups and red cards were sit-ups. Jacks were 11, queens 12, kings 13 and aces 14, all the rest were face value. This sounds ok just to help stay in shape, but seems very stupid for bodybuilding.

yeah, the old push-up game........a great challenge between friends, but i for all the lifting i did in high school, all i saw from it was strenghth, not much mass.
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Post by: NoCalBbEr on October 21, 2005, 08:56:06 AM
so an aice is 1 or 11 reps?? its sounds totally BS way to train.
Title: Re: Letting fate determine your rep scheme
Post by: JUSTJAXX on October 22, 2005, 02:35:53 PM
kind of a random approach to instinctive style training and i really dont see the benefit of the low rep range for mass, especially if you're alternating sets of 2 with sets of 10 but then if its working for him, then who are we to say

but i think he got the deck of cards bodybuilding system on ebay for 9.95 and no shipping charge  ;D