High vol vs High percieved intensity

[tinytraps]

What do you prefer doing lots of volume or one balls out effort.

Pls respond

[BIGKIWI]

In the middle there few reps 5-6 with bulls out effort

[HarryB]

I like less volume in terms of sheer sets most of the time and work up to 1 or 2 all out set with drops and stuff.

[Darkmanx]

I really think it comes down the individuals plans and training regime tbh. Also what works for them too. I'm no bodybuilder per say but my body responds nowhere near the same with high volume then it does high intesity and lower volume. Hope this makes sense.

[deepmen15]

Although i d prefer (past) to lift as heavy as possible...I ve observed===>

Heavy weights==more stress on joints== more time of gym due to injury :pfft:

on the other hand keeping 70% to 80% RM with high volume...low rest periods 30-45 sec... keeps injuries away and body tends to be in state of hypertrophy

But again depends on individual preff ...Mixing it up wud help....Also there is no one solution to this question...if there is one :salute: :notworthy:

[tinytraps]

Good posts.

Agree you have to stick with what works for you. Because I train alone its hard for me to do a balls out set for fear of killing myself. So I prefer the high volume approach (but using reasonably heavy loads 80-100% 1rm) as well as high frequency.

Someone posted about Arnold and Dorian. Both mr olympias but very different training styles.

[southernsamurai]

Mate looking at your journal I wouldn't really categorise it as high volume.

I would catergorise high volume as somewhere in the range 15-20 working sets. A balls to the wall quad session of 18-20 working sets is high volume.

For chest/tri, shoulders+bi's I wouldnt clock up as much volume usually.

Also when you say you can't go to failure by yourself, don't really believe that bro- if I do a solo train, I'll have the safety bars in place for squats and BB presses. Can go to the death on DBs, machines and pretty much all back exercises etc

[Hitro]

So I prefer the high volume approach (but using reasonably heavy loads 80-100% 1rm) as well as high frequency.

How do you do high volume at 100% of ya 1RM? 10 Sets of 1 Rep?