Muscle Logic

[short gorilla]

I picked up a book called Muscle Logic that had some pretty cool programs in it. The basic idea is doing supersets, five reps per exercise per set, and doing as many sets in 15 minutes as you can. This is cool because you can use relatively high amounts of weight and the brief rest between sets (as you do the second exercise) allows you to keep going. For instance I did bench press and T-bar row, continuously for 15 minutes, 5 reps each. It's pretty good for endurance and you get a helluva pump from it too.

I did it with leg press and deadlift too, and that kicked my ass. I had a hard time getting out of the leg press machine by the end. Good stuff. Any thoughts?

[Niko]

So you basically finished your workout in 15 minutes?

[Rahf]

Sounds like your endurance will benefit really well from it. I'm too inexperienced to judge programs like that, but I'll say that a pump does not equal growth.

Remember that you won't be lifting normally as heavy compared to when doing normal sets.

[short gorilla]

I usually work out for between 45 minutes and an hour and a half. So for 15 minutes I do two exercises, get some water, go another 15 minutes with two different exercises, etc. I keep going until I'm spent.

So far I can do probably 75% of what I normally lift with using this program. No, the pump doesn't equal growth, but the shock to the nervous system and skeletal-muscular system does.

The idea behind it is that because you are doing fewer reps per set, you fatigue much more slowly, and can exert more force on the weight than normal. So because I'm not doing several reps in a set, I can actually lift a weight 50 times that normally I might only be able to lift 30-40 times before becoming fatigued.

[mr popular]

Do it for 4 months and see how much muscle you gain from it.

Otherwise it just sounds like conditioning, and not really optimal for promoting the most muscle growth...

[NightHunter]

Do it for 4 months and see how much muscle you gain from it.

Otherwise it just sounds like conditioning, and not really optimal for promoting the most muscle growth...

I concur.

Sounds much better for localized muscular endurance, or just as a shock workout to mix things up every once in a while. I wouldn't build a program around this concept.

[short gorilla]

I plan on doing it for a month, then doing a couple weeks of something different, then seeing where I am. I try to mix up my programs every couple of months anyways.

[Swartz]

Haha I don't have a consistent program. Seeing as I'm still messing with exercises and training methods it's been changing like every workout. Piss on a stick.

[Syn]

actually, it'd be pretty good for muscle growth... with the right diet, you'll be hitting hypertrophy very easily