Originally Posted by
Cromwell
Thanks for the video, and like Steve R, I just have a couple of programming questions, and one equipment-related challenge.
1. The video says do sets of 10, three times per week. Do you typically recommend 3 sets, even as the trainee progresses to the heavier weights, where he cannot complete 10 reps? Or, as the reps go down when the weight gets closer to the trainee's bodyweight, the number of sets goes up, so that the total number of reps remains around 30?
2. The gym in which I train has a Cybex pulldown machine--the weight stack is mostly obscured by an outer casing. The plate jumps are 10lbs. If I cannot fit magnetic or other incremental weights to the stack, should I simply add reps from workout to workout? For example:
Workout 1: 3 sets of 10 @ 100 lbs
Workout 2: 3 sets of 10 @ 110 lbs
Workout 3: 1 set of 10 @ 120 lbs; 1 set of 8 @ 120 lbs; 1 set of 6 @ 120 lbs
Workout 4: 1 set of 10 @ 120 lbs; 1 set of 9 @ 120 lbs; 1 set of 7 @ 120 lbs
...and keep doing 120 lbs until I can get a full 10 reps in each set?
Bodyweight is about 195, so maybe at some point it makes sense (perhaps at 150 lbs) to just move to light band chin-up.