Quicky

[AcegMan]

I was reading Ukranianguy's posts on 100 bodybuidling tips and tip #16 says you should perform 6-9 sets on biggere muscle and 4-6 on samller ones.
right now im doing 3 sets of 10, 8, 6 reps every workout is that too small?

[theboss]

depends on your experience i suppose and what you are trying to accomplish.

[Kronis]

Everybody's different.

[buildinthaskinnys]

I will answer your question with another question.

Are you gaining? if so don't change it.

[AcegMan]

i kinda feel like i hit a plateu and cant get over it. im not quitting tho im still workin hard, just not seeing those big pumps and gains i used to see when i first started... should i made add another 2 sets?

[AcegMan]

next week im switchin to light weights for about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks doing 4 sets of 15-20

but after should i do mabye 5 sets 12, 10, 8, 6, 6 reps? -heavy

[buildinthaskinnys]

I was doing three work sets a bodypart awhile ago and made some good gains, but I was using periodization, that is progressively increasing the weight every workout and then backing off and starting at lighter weights again. You are pyramiding your weights every workout which I dont think is a good idea but if it works there is something to it, though I would recommend pyramiding the weights through several weeks or some thing like this

week 1 - 14,12,10
week 2 - 12,10,8
week 3 10,8,6
gradually increasing the weight, as opposed to every work out using the same rep scheme. Also I should note that my frequency was high, I was training with one exercise per muscle group with 3 sets every 3-4 days. I dont believe in magic numbers, but you have to start somewhere, however as everyones recovery and gpp is different you need to experiment a bit to find out what load and frequency will maximize YOUR gains.

[AcegMan]

interesting well when i first started training i was doing usually 3 sets then 1 superset after each workout, 12, 10, 8 reps doing:

chest biceps
back triceps
shoulder legs calves
off
then doing it again

so working out 6 times a week.. alot of people told me i was over training but i did have good gains for a good 6-10 months then i started going down so I switched it up doing 10 8 6 reps

chest triceps
back calves
off
shoulders biceps
legs calves
off

donig this workout i get good pumps at trhe gym but they go down quickly... and i dont really feel sore or anything like i used to after which is a good thing cuz u know ur workin ur muscles, so i am considering going back to what i used to do trying to workout 6 times a week again and see what i get out of it.

is there a downside to doing 3-4 sets every workout 10, 8, 6 gradually adding more wieght every set?

[AcegMan]

I picked up a copy of the newest issue of muscle and fitness with wolverine on the cover... they have a workout in there called the showtime program.
It doesent really say when to take any days off./ is it possible its a 7 day thing?
itll show for example
week 1:

workout 1(mon and thurs)
workout 2 (tuesday+friday)
workout 3 wednesday+saturday

if someoine could look at it and let me know what you think thatd be great