Great to hear from you Nathan. Hope the holidays were
good to you. I taped WSM 2005 last night. Marunde was
right in there. Got my first atlas stone, and love it.
Friend made it and it is very nice. Can't wait to make
more bigger, lol.

Here's a couple pics, of stone and kids at Christmas.

http://home.earthlink.net/~daddybruton/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/st\
one4.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~daddybruton/Casey-and-Kane.jpg



--- Nathan FitzGerald <fitz-fam@...>
wrote:

> --- 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.
>
>
>
>
>
>




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