Multi weight-repetitions sets?

[SamePendo]

I'm not sure of these...

How do you do those sets that goes kind of like this:

10 reps with high weight.
10 reps with a little lighter weight.
10 reps with a little lighter weight.
20 reps with even less weight.
20 reps with minimum weight.

..Something like that.

What's up with those? What's the semi-science behind it? Examples of this?

Thanks!

 

[FunnyCide]

Originally posted by SamePendo
I'm not sure of these...

How do you do those sets that goes kind of like this:

10 reps with high weight.
10 reps with a little lighter weight.
10 reps with a little lighter weight.
20 reps with even less weight.
20 reps with minimum weight.

..Something like that.

What's up with those? What's the semi-science behind it? Examples of this?

Thanks!

I'm not too sure but any wieght you can do more than 12 with is just a waste. I wouldn't recommend going above 10 at the most. I think you'd get more out of your workout if you split these 6 sets in 2 exercises with 3 sets each ranging from 8-10 reps.

 

[Heizen]

Sounds like burnout kind of exercise to me.

Fun, but hard to do. Helps endurance.

 

[Lifeforce]

Originally posted by SamePendo
I'm not sure of these...

How do you do those sets that goes kind of like this:

10 reps with high weight.
10 reps with a little lighter weight.
10 reps with a little lighter weight.
20 reps with even less weight.
20 reps with minimum weight.

..Something like that.

What's up with those? What's the semi-science behind it? Examples of this?

Thanks!

It's called staggering sets.

From what I understand it is to burn out the muslce completly, it's used as the last set of the muscle group you are training. It gives a hell of a pump after doing it. My forearms look like they are going to explode after biceps curling this way. :]

You do not raise the number off reps, you keep it constant, like

4-8 reps hardest
when failure have people lighten the weight quickly
do 4-8 reps again
when failure have people lighten the weight quickly
repeat until satisfied.

 

[SamePendo]

Just to point something out...

the example I posted, is all one set. I mean, you do the first ten, and someone else (or you, if it doesnt take time) take the weight of. And so on. At the final 20 (in this example) is the end of just that set...

 

[shrewd]

for strength it's best to go the opposite, lower the reps and raise the weight every set.

 

[semag]

It's called a burnout or a dropset.

 

[SamePendo]

Originally posted by semag
It's called a burnout or a dropset.

used for?

Originally posted by shrewd
It's called a burnout or a dropset.

Like.. 20 with liittle weight. 15 with more, 10, 8? Immediately, one after the other one, right?

 

[Heizen]

Originally posted by SamePendo
used for?

Gets rid of all the stored energy in the muscle. Helps with endurance, and strength a little. Endurance mostly.