Anyone ever heard of this?

[blackbeard]

working from heavy weights to light weights..i dont mean dropping down after a heavy set either..

i mean literally 1-2 warm up sets and then go right to a heavy triple with assistance/forced reps etc so assuming said person can do 225 cleanly for 2 reps they would hit 135 for 10-15 reps and jump right to 225 and try for as many as possible???? bear in mind this is done for every exercise even lat pull downs and BB curls are done for 2 rep maxes lol

im dumbfounded some geniuses have tried to tell me that im wasting my energy by working my way up in weight to a 1 or 3 rep max LOL (btw these geniuses weight about 145)

 

[jcp2]

i don't like jumps that are almost 100% more, unless of course it is real early in the sets.

 

[blackbeard]

i don't like jumps that are almost 100% more, unless of course it is real early in the sets.

i can sort of see a 700lb bencher going
135 225 315 405 etc

but a 235 bencher making large jumps is insane to me as well

 

[joshbeam1]

I've always like increasing the weight by smaller increments. Makes it seem easier then jumping into something like u describe.

 

[Chaz B]

working from heavy weights to light weights..i dont mean dropping down after a heavy set either..

i mean literally 1-2 warm up sets and then go right to a heavy triple with assistance/forced reps etc so assuming said person can do 225 cleanly for 2 reps they would hit 135 for 10-15 reps and jump right to 225 and try for as many as possible???? bear in mind this is done for every exercise even lat pull downs and BB curls are done for 2 rep maxes lol

im dumbfounded some geniuses have tried to tell me that im wasting my energy by working my way up in weight to a 1 or 3 rep max LOL (btw these geniuses weight about 145)

isn't this just askin to fuck yourself up???

 

[blackbeard]

I've always like increasing the weight by smaller increments. Makes it seem easier then jumping into something like u describe.

i agree if i make to big a jump near a max (thinking that ill be saving energy for a PR) 9 out of 10 times the weight always feels heavier and i feel weaker..

i imagine must jump in small increments but just wondering if any did things differently

 

[Powerathlete]

I've never heard of this. However, there is an old time bodybuilder by the name of Charlie "something" and he would train his heaviest set first while working his way down. He was one of the strongest guys in his era. Later in life during an interview he stated that his routing most likely caused a lot of injuries because of not warming up to the extreme poundages. I can't imagine doing this routine or the one mentioned above without asking for injury.

 

[blackbeard]

I've never heard of this. However, there is an old time bodybuilder by the name of Charlie "something" and he would train his heaviest set first while working his way down. He was one of the strongest guys in his era. Later in life during an interview he stated that his routing most likely caused a lot of injuries because of not warming up to the extreme poundages. I can't imagine doing this routine or the one mentioned above without asking for injury.

interesting..
persoanlly i feel stronger with a good warmup

even if i wanted to hit something for a heavy 10 reps i would still warm up and get fairly close to the weight i plan on using even if im using only doubles or even singles..
i think most people hear wm-ups andthey assume they have to do 10-15 reps with every single set

 

[Mudge]

I have gone heavy to light on some things, probably virtually everything upper body except deads, shrugs, rows, I think thats it.

With the deads, reason being I dont do a lot of work sets. With other stuff its mostly CNS, and I do heavy warmups that I count as sets. For chest and things that I will go heavy to light, my warmup sets for bench for example might not go above 60% of my 1RM unless I do a heavy single of 75/80% as a very last warmup for the CNS.

I play warmups by ear depending how I feel, in terms of reps and weights used, but I dont count them as sets unless there are a lot of warmups (i.e. legs).

2 warmup sets for bench for me would be low unless my opening set was high reps (10). When I was smaller then sure, I used to go right into the gym with no warmups, but I was lifting puny weights. Now my entire body and mind need warmups, or else not only will I hurt but I will not hit my lifts.

 

[Mudge]

but a 235 bencher making large jumps is insane to me as well

When I was mid 200s I could do one weak warmup set and go right too it, when I was bottom 200s I could go right to work and never know the difference. But I was also a lot younger back then.

 

[blackbeard]

do you still hit bench that way?
so if you were go 405 you may warm up to 315 and then jump to 405?