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Lots of pain involved in today’s workout due to 8×10 on the big quad and hamstring exercises. The burn and pump were worth it. Growth was stimulated…

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We’ve been feeling as if we were doing too much on back day, what with 10×10 for lats, midback and upper traps. We’ve pulled one of those 10×10 sequences, the midback one, as midback is called into play on the multi-set work for lats…

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It’s back to 10×10 on the big midrange exercises this week, and because our chests are a lagging bodypart, we did it on two–Bench presses and Wide-grip dips…

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We made some interesting changes today, for the sake of variety, new muscle engorgement and to see if we can eventually remedy Steve’s tweaked left elbow…

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We’re not sure what hurts worse, 8×10 Old-style hack squats or doing them heavy for three sets followed by a lighter negative-accentuated set. Both set the quads ablaze and create a deep ache…

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Back has been getting very sore, particularly lats. So we’ve decided to split up the 10×10. Today we chose midback, on the big exercise. We did a standard lat workout, as you’ll see…

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We’re doing a lot of soul searching as far as 10×10 goes. It’s producing amazing results doing it every workout for calves and arms. Should we go to it on the first exercise for every bodypart every workout? Or do we need standard heavy sets every other workout? Hmm. Today we compromised with chest, doing standard sets on Incline presses and ending with 8×8 on Wide-grip dips…

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As we mentioned, motivation is starting to climb, so this has really been more of a Shock week than Rep Range. We’ve been starting with 10×10 on the first exercise, then following up with a negative-accentuated set, drop sets and/or supersets for the stretch- and contracted-position exercises…

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While we continue to call this Rep Range week, it is rapidly turning into Shock, as we’re using the 10×10 method on the first (midrange) exercise, and following it with a superset–a stretch- and contracted-position move back to back. Plus, we’re using a negative-accentuated set of a big exercise for extra fat-to-muscle microtrauma…

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We’re calling this a Rep Range week, although we’re really running the range from higher to lower. We are using the 10×10 method on the first big midrange exercise, then we are supersetting the stretch- and contracted-position exercises, using lower reps…

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