whats the max amount of total sets I should do on an upper day?

[persiacell]

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[persiacell]

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[jakejacquino]

It’s different for everyone, I run a FBEOD and I think my MRV is around 13-14 sets, but the set number is arbitrary as 1 set of a leg press is going to be 10x more fatiguing than 1 set of a forearm curl. I would go until you start to feel intrasession fatigue, and from that point maybe 2-3 more sets

 

[persiacell]

It’s different for everyone, I run a FBEOD and I think my MRV is around 13-14 sets, but the set number is arbitrary as 1 set of a leg press is going to be 10x more fatiguing than 1 set of a forearm curl. I would go until you start to feel intrasession fatigue, and from that point maybe 2-3 more sets

so ur telling me to do 4 sets of an exercise potentially

 

[jakejacquino]

so ur telling me to do 4 sets of an exercise potentially

By 4 sets do you mean 4 sets of chest press or you’re saying on your fourth set into your workout you’re feeling intrasession fatigue?

 

[persiacell]

By 4 sets do you mean 4 sets of chest press or you’re saying on your fourth set into your workout you’re feeling intrasession fatigue?

oh I misunderstood u but are u saying I should just stop my workout if I feel intrasession fatigue?

 

[jakejacquino]

oh I misunderstood u but are u saying I should just stop my workout if I feel intrasession fatigue?

Thanks for the reps but sometimes my intrasession hits earlier/later based off of other variables (day of the week, hours slept night before, other physical activity, pre workout nutrition), so sometimes my intrasession fatigue hits with like 3-4 sets left, and sometimes it doesn’t even hit. when you can visibly feel that you don’t have enough energy to give it your all is when I would stop, which for me is usually around 10 bilateral sets, and 3/6 unilateral sets (all with 0-1rir, 5 reps)

 

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[Ergogenic]

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That depends on your proximity to failure and recovery time between sessions.

In the past, I did 3 or 4 sets taken to brutal failure in a session. This would be 6 to 8 total sets per muscle group per week. All sets taken to brutal failure with 50 percent of one rep max. First set usually failed at 20 reps. I stopped doing this because it was too much for my body to recover from. This was not effective for growth or progressive overload.

I now do 4 sets per muscle group per session with 2 reps in reserve away from failure. It is important to get near failure, but NOT all the way to failure. Leaving reps in reserve actually allowed me to recover and progressively overload from week to week.

Remember, progressive overload is needed for long term bodybuilding results.

It is true that sets taken to failure produce more muscle growth per individual set, but the problem is that it takes much longer to recover from this, and your number of sets and volume will be much lower, so it is not as good as instead doing more sets with 2 reps in reserve.

Mark as solution.