>the way to get stronger is by lifting a heavy weight until fatigue and later adapting to it as time goes on
>the lower the theoretical rep scheme is, the heavier the weight is and the sooner fatigue will happen
>1 Rep maxes are very difficult, recruit the most amount of motor unit recruitment, and if done with proper form and full range-of-motion will cause an intensive stretch with further helps with muscle gains and strength
I'm not getting it, if you want to get stronger why wouldn't a person just lift their 1 RM every few days for as many sets as they can until they can no longer lift the weight for the set? If you did 2 to 3 sets of your max and then 1 or 2 sets of 80% what would be the problem?
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Nerves say no
So is the issue entirely CNS? Wouldn't lifting overtime force you to physically change and force your CNS to recover and produce more force?
Americans are so moronic its not even a meme
Eurobug, explainon ze issue.
you fry your nervous system and it takes longer to recover than your muscles
It's dangerous to do 1RM all the time, you are dramatically increasing the odds of snapping shit up.
Well that's kind of a wimpy reason. Because it's dangerous?
building muscle is a long process, you can't build muscle if the exercise causes injury.
Right, but if you just use proper form and brace right and actually possible weight. What would be problem? You may be sore or strain harder than you usually do, but you can just give it a day or two to recover.
just try doing 5 singles of your 1rep max 3 times a week and see what happens.
hint: you'll get weaker
So many pussy homosexuals in this thread and they reek of curry. Yea OP, i been doing exactly as you said for half a year and the gains have been incredible. Dont listen to these pussies i bet they lift dumbells and use the barbell for anal gapes.
That's sort of how I used to lift. Not 1RM all the time but like 3x1, 1x3, or 3x3 depending on what I was doing, keeping the weights heavy as frick so I could barely manage it. Felt good, got strong as frick. Probably a limit to how far you can take it though, since it primarily trains your CNS and once you've got that good at some point you do need to add actual muscle mass to keep going, and super high intensity super low reps isn't exactly conducive to mass gaining.
>and super high intensity super low reps isn't exactly conducive to mass gaining
They are and they aren't. For type 1 fibers, they're great at building those. For type 2, maybe not. If you're using a heavy load with high intensity, you'll get bigger and stronger. Maybe not bodybuilder big, but definitely bigger. I'd just do a back off set if you want maximum hypertrophy.
3x3 deads and bw dips is all I do
>heavy deadlifts are great for building forearms
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can't ever come back my man
People like to mix their p's and q's when it comes to weight training. Things like 5x5, it's enough 'volume' to gain muscle mass while also just heavy enough and low enough in the reps to be conducive for strength training.
1. If it's a true 1RM, the fatigue from the first set would make a second set impossible unless you rested an ungodly amount of time
2. A 1RM lift, even if you did it multiple times, is not enough volume to build further strength. You need to build a base with some volume that gets expressed later in a new 1RM.
What a fantastically moronic idea