Routine Rebuild
3 of 7 weeks down for my current lifting program, and I gotta say that I’m really liking the results. Since my fiance’s back in school, I need to restructure some of my workouts to accommodate the two days she’s not available. On top of that, I need to revisit the overall underlying training philosophy I’ve been using. I know the 8-12 rep range has always yielded the best results for me. This has been reinforced by GVT being based on 10 rep sets. But now I’m curious… What if I did 4 sets of 12 or 6 sets of 8 instead of 5 sets of 10? How many reps would I be able to do if every rep was slow on the eccentric motion? There are a number of possibilities I’m tossing around. I do know that I’m enjoying having fewer exercises by doing more compound motions, just strictly because it gets me out of the gym faster and I’m feeling just as well worked as if I were to be hitting individual muscles in isolation work instead. So really I’m back to the drawing board, but have much more knowledge available to pull from for the next round. The goal has always been the same, but it’s a never ending search to find the best way to get there for the moment.
