Thread: Help...

anyone?

There is a variety of training methods and one needs to be in a caloric surplus to gain body weight.

evolution, pyramiding up isn't necessarily the best way to fly. I don't train this way.

And I wish you every success gaining weight without running a surplus. I predict this will work just as well as my "lose weight without running a deficit" plan.

Go to Costco and buy in bulk. If your short on funds it's the best way.

Pyramiding style is good to throw into the mix on occasion, but if your going to max at the peak of the pyramid every workout your body going to hit a plateau at some point. Plus doing this on occasion will help you gauge your strength increases and setting new personal bests can be very satisfying and keep your working hard mentally.

Mix your friends and your styles together so your workout varies and your body will not adapt to one style.

OK, so it's true then that using one heavy set of weights for all sets is sufficient instead of pyramid training? If that's true then I've been doing everything wrong.

I wouldn't say what you have been doing is "wrong".

You should mix it up with both styles. I'm a strong believer in at least once a month in pyramiding up (i usually don't do under 3 reps though, unless I'm going for a personal best, and feel really strong that day) to:

1. push the limits of my body so I can see that I'm getting stronger
2. force myself to adapt to use/handle more heavy weight
3. to help you gauge your strength gains, and adjust the weight our using on the other style.

On the other weeks I would do more around the 90% range.

I also believe you need to listen to your body, if you worked back last week and your feeling really strong this week, add another round of the pyramid style. But if your still sore use the consistent rep method.

On the consistent rep method, I also recommend that the rep's your looking at is your goal so if say it's 8, and the first set you pick a weight that is really easy. go ahead and get 12 reps but then go up on the next set. Until you find the weight that are at 8 with. Keep a log and next time you do that exercise start with that weight.

Another thing you can do to mix it up is every once in a while on the last set just go to complete failure (don't break form though) or if your training with a buddy get him to help you get a few forced reps. It's a great way to spur some new muscle growth but don't do it every workout.

Originally Posted by eVoluti0n

OK, so it's true then that using one heavy set of weights for all sets is sufficient instead of pyramid training? If that's true then I've been doing everything wrong.

Three things
First, i've used both, a pyramid scheme and a fixed heavy weight and had good results with both.
Second, you keep ignoring the fact that everyone is addressing your diet, and how important it is to have right in order for you to see any results from any type of weight training.
Third, how in the fuck do you not have any idea if you are doing it right or wrong. It's pretty simple to know whether your training is working, isn't it? Are you gaining any strength or muscle?

Originally Posted by PushAndPull

Three things
First, i've used both, a pyramid scheme and a fixed heavy weight and had good results with both.
Second, you keep ignoring the fact that everyone is addressing your diet, and how important it is to have right in order for you to see any results from any type of weight training.
Third, how in the fuck do you not have any idea if you are doing it right or wrong. It's pretty simple to know whether your training is working, isn't it? Are you gaining any strength or muscle?

I'm not ignoring anything about diet. I never asked about diet. My diet is fine. I simply had a training question because I never heard of the method that I described in my OP. That's all I'm curious about, nothing more.