not that your going to care about an amatuer like myself, but I have been resting 1 minute between sets and maybe 3 between exercises. I work everything 3 days a week for a total of 15 sets for each excercise a week

I do 6-7 excercises per lift day for a total of 30-35 sets (90-105 sets a week)

Hey peeps. I'm curious as to a few things.

1. What are your rest times between sets AND between exercises?

I totally train like a bro, but here goes.

I don't time it but on average I'm looking at 1 to 2 minutes. I increase weight each set and rest time also increases. Before my heaviest set I will rest quite long, sometimes over 3 minutes.

2. How many work sets do you do PER BODYPART, PER WEEK?

Too many, but I made the decision to try high volume training a month ago or so, and I saw great results. For a while I was going 5-6 days/week with 35+ sets per session on a 2-bodypart split. It's somewhat nuts but results came and I really enjoyed it.

Example for #2: Do you do 15 sets of chest per week? 20 sets of legs including calves per week?

If you are doing 1 bodypart per week (like Monday is your "Chest" day) then you'd do 15 sets that one day, or if you are working a upper/lower split, then you'd do less sets per day because you are working them more for the entire week.

I'm just curious.

From a previous training log as an example:

Warmups on Lat pulldown.
Pullups 5 sets (bw, 3 weighted, bw at the end)
Yates Rows 4 sets
Wide grip lat pulldowns 4 sets
narrow grip lat pulldowns 4 sets
Smith Barbell rows (bent-over) 4 sets
Hammer Curls 4 sets superset with One handed cable rows 4 sets
Lat Pulldown curls 4 sets
Chin ups 3 sets

This would be about an average volume day. Some of these exercises include a drop-set afterwards so it's debatable if you include this as a working set or not.

As of late I'm anywhere between 30 and 40 total sets including drop sets and lower weight sets as I work up to PR, but not including initial warmup sets. (For example, I will warmup with a few light sets on some back isolation machines before starting pullups. When I start pullups I'll do something like BWx8, 25x5, 45xfailure (5-6 reps), 50xfailure (2-3), BW to finish).

Another amateur lifter...

My workout is below, 3x week, 3-5 sets depending on weight and how I'm feeling, roughly 90 seconds between sets and however long it takes me to move plates around between exercises:
Bench
Pull-ups
Shoulder press
Squats
Deads
Leg Raises
Shoulder flys
Calf Raises

I usually weight about 1-2 minutes between sets but I only do about 3-4 exercises per body part on a M/W/F split. I usually hit my chest or my back twice per week. (I alternate)

My routine is kinda whack I'll admit.

1. What are your rest times between sets AND between exercises?

As long as it takes to feel like I can move the most amount of weight. Could be 2-6 minutes, depending on weight, movement, reps...

2. How many work sets do you do PER BODYPART, PER WEEK?

My weekly current routine has my sets broken down like this:

Chest/Back (includes bent rows/DL/Incline DB press): 24 Sets, 3 sets x 8 exercises
Legs/Arms (includes squats): 24 sets, 3 sets x 8 exercises
Core: Usually kettlebell turkish get-ups before doing a circuit that consists of bodyweight and kettlebells.
30 seconds work/15 seconds rest X 10 movements (russian twists, side bridge, planks...) = 1 circuit
I'll do 2-3 circuits with rest and pushups in between.

I can usually do each workout in an hour. Would do more IF I had the time.

1 body part per day because I have the time to go the gym at least once a day.

15 rep sets 3-5 sets per exercercise, on everything but legs (quads and hamstrings).
20-30 rep sets 3-4 sets per exercise on leg day.

Short Term Recovery HR @ or about 120 bpm or long enough for someone to repeat the same quantity of reps. (maybe 60-90 seconds)
Long Term Recovery 2 days without using the same muslce group (with the exception of back because my schedule looks like this)

M-Chest/Tri/Planks(Cardio if I have time)
T-Core(Abs Strength and Erectors)/Calves
W-Shoulders/Planks
T-Legs (Cardio if I have time)
F- Back/Biceps/Planks

My Thursday Friday combo offers a little overlap of back recovery, and I've felt it before.

Sometimes I'll have a Saturday or Sunday Arm day, depending on the circumstances and I have been known to trade days with an arm day. But for the most part that's my routine and the Long Term Recovery associated to it.

I usually rest between exercises about as long as I rest between sets. I do alot of speed-strength/explosive-strength training which is in the 80-85% intensity zone and you are relying mostly on the phosphagen system. Resynthesis rates are about 30s- 50-70%, 3m-90+%..So for plyometrics or other short duration high intensity training I aim to rest in the 30s-3m range. But there are other external/internal factors that influence training which involves recovery period between sets. Exercise selection, volume/intensity, stage of training, short on time, poor sleep, long work hours ect ect..

How many working sets I do for a given exercise is a function of the loading and intensity of volume..That is the monthly loading which influences the micro cycles- weekly/daily. Also the intensity of loading. Am I working in a speed-strength intensity zone or absolute-strength..This will influence how many working sets I do for a given exercise. So it contantly changes..The loading in the micro cycle has to vary while in the large cycle my work capacity has to continue to increase.

1. Warming up: however long it takes me to change the plates
between heavy work sets: max 3mins I would say.

2. Don't do per body part but focus on one main lift & 2-3 accessory lifts for 8x3. (except for Wed is off because of shoulder recovery)
Mon: deadlifts + SLDL, pullups, power cleans
Wed: bench + dips, SOHP, rows
Fri: squat + split squats, front squat, vertical jumps.

Up until recently I've done a full body workout 3x a week.
Squat 3 x 10
Bench press 3 x 8
Bent row 3 x 8
Military press 3 x 8
SLDL 3 x 8
Pullup 3 x 8

Was great. Took me from novice to 130kg squat, 163kg DL & 108kg bench @78ish kg BW.