Chad Waterbury question

jerb00

So, just wondering cuz I was doing some reading... often I see that people say 40-60 rep range is perfect for hypertrophy, but reading around on the web chad Waterbury says frequent training is best but not to go past 35 reps for one exercise. Why would he suggest limiting it to 35 when so many others say 40-60 reps?

Gallowmere1984

Everyone has their own pet theories on this.

My thoughts? Try everything once, repeat that which gives the best results.

sardelsa

Honestly I don't pay much attention to the 'rules' I follow a program designed to do what I want it to do and go from there. Most of my exercises seem to fall in the 8-12 range (so 24-36 total). But I tend to do a variety of rep ranges on different days ex. heavier deadlifts one day vs light high rep another day...

Some of my glute stuff can even go up to 50 reps per set.. so it will depend on my goals, the program, the muscle worked, the exercise, volume, frequency, rest, tension.... as you can tell, there are so many variables that come into play here

trigden1991

Try everything, see what works, do it till it stops working and repeat.

3 years ago I got the best shoulder development from heavy presses however in recent times, they have responded far better to lower weights and high volume isolation moves.

pbryd

Perhaps 40-60 is the reps per bodypart and 35 reps is for individual exercises.

I'd prefer to do 3 sets of bench and 3 sets of flys than 6 sets of bench.

jerb00

Thanks for your replies. I was curious...

pbryd

Have you looked into the recommendations on volume by Mike Israetel?

10 sets per body part per week minimum, as well as maximum adaptive volume and maximum recoverable volume.

Mycophilia

pbryd wrote: »

Have you looked into the recommendations on volume by Mike Israetel?

10 sets per body part per week minimum, as well as maximum adaptive volume and maximum recoverable volume.

Here's the article for those interested:

https://renaissanceperiodization.com/training-volume-landmarks-muscle-growth/

jerb00

Mycophilia wrote: »

pbryd wrote: »

Have you looked into the recommendations on volume by Mike Israetel?

10 sets per body part per week minimum, as well as maximum adaptive volume and maximum recoverable volume.

Here's the article for those interested:

https://renaissanceperiodization.com/training-volume-landmarks-muscle-growth/

Interesting read. Thanks.