--- In paxtonpowergymforum@yahoogroups.com, "christopher m. smith"
<wasistlos9874@h...> wrote:
>
> --- In paxtonpowergymforum@yahoogroups.com, "Nathan FitzGerald"
<fitz-
> fam@w...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In order to gain mass and strength you must recover from your
last
> > workout.For most three day a week of training is sufficient for
> > recovery.I have found that ou must allow at least 48 hours
between
> > workouts or overtraining will eventually occur.
> >
> Nathan,
> How have you been? Again that was a great competition you put on
last
> year. I have a question for you. I have started doing giant sets
of 6
> to 10 reps. How many sets in each giant set do you recommend I
do? I
> have been doing 2 to 3 sets.
> Chris
>
Chris,
Great to hear from you. I just remembered about those pics. I will
post some on this forum by Monday.I know that I have some of you.

To answer your question I need to know if you are looking to gain
strength or to do conditioning.

To gain strength I find that keeping the reps around the 3-8 range
works best.I usually do 3 working sets unless I am doing something
like deadlifts and then I would do around 5 sets just because I dont
like jumping more that 90 lbs between sets.

My pyramid would look something like this:

Bench press
135 x 8
185 x 5
225 x 3
275 x 2
315 x 5

alternate with doing some singles up to your max.

If you were going for conditioning then I would do :

135 x 10
185 x 10
225 x 10
225 x 10
Just an example.