Reply With QuoteThey can be used the way you did, but I'm not a fan. You could also try cluster sets (rest paused sets). I think it's very easy to overtrain if you perform over 20 singles with anything near your 1RM with multiple compound movements.
Singles for hypertrophy
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12-18-2007, 06:38 PM #1Registered User
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Singles for hypertrophy
If I did quite a high number of singles ( twenty + ) in the big compound lifts ( squats, chins, deadlifts and bench ) would this lead to appreciable mass gains? I have read time and again that singles build strength but not much mass but is that assumption nullified when sufficient numbers of singles are done per session?
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12-18-2007, 06:42 PM #2Succinct ELITE MEMBER
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that sounds extremely dangerous.
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Amidst P-Funk's list of Recommended Reading is Super Squats by Randall J. Strossen
I recently read it.
It recommends (among other things) "one set of 20 squats, 3x week, with 5-10lb added to the bar each workout." Initially "pick a weight you can do 10 with, then do 20 with it"
It cites numerous cases of huge gains, in both strength and size.
It's only a short book, but it was a nice read.Used to.. DL:375lb, Sqt:335lb, Bnch:260lb
Now... Weak as a kitten, but fighting back.
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did Dorian Yates not do something similar ?
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one set of 20 squats is not 20 sets of 1 squat.
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12-30-2007, 10:44 AM #7Registered User
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I have been doing this approach now for the last month or so and really enjoying it. I am definately seeing gains in mass. I think its a volume issue, you really need to do an awful lot of singles per session to warrant a response. The way I am approaching it currently is reducing my rest periods by ten seconds each time I go to the gym and today I had my first "failure" in the bench press at the twentieth rep so I completed nineteen reps and couldnt quite nail the last at a rest period of twenty seconds between reps. I was hoping to reduce the rest period down to just five seconds on all the exercises before I moved onto a different protocol for a short time before resuming the singles at a heavier weight for another cycle. It does go to show you though that there are plenty ways to skin a cat and lots out there that works
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I'm curious as to how you are working the timing of the exercise? Originally Posted by alex p
I have been doing this approach now for the last month or so and really enjoying it. I am definately seeing gains in mass. I think its a volume issue, you really need to do an awful lot of singles per session to warrant a response. The way I am approaching it currently is reducing my rest periods by ten seconds each time I go to the gym and today I had my first "failure" in the bench press at the twentieth rep so I completed nineteen reps and couldnt quite nail the last at a rest period of twenty seconds between reps. I was hoping to reduce the rest period down to just five seconds on all the exercises before I moved onto a different protocol for a short time before resuming the singles at a heavier weight for another cycle. It does go to show you though that there are plenty ways to skin a cat and lots out there that works
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The way I do it is quite simple. When I first start when the rest period is to be sixty seconds between reps I just do a rep each time the second hand hits the twelve on my wristwatch ( ofcourse this means the rest is a few seconds short of sixty seconds but I dont see that as a problem ). Then I time the next session to fifty second intervals and when the second hand hits the right time I blast out another rep ( I often write down on a sheet of paper the position the second hand needs to reach so that I dont have to calculate each time ( this may make me sound a little dumb but its a practical solution because of the ease of forgetting where you are in the rep count Originally Posted by jchappj
) So as you can see the rest periods arent dialled in to the exact second but the progression is easier to monitor this way I think.
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