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Has anyone moved from 3 sets to 2 and been able to lift heavier and get bigger muscles because you only doing 2 sets instead of 3? I feel like I haven’t seen much progress in a while I just want more muscle while losing fat 😭
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Anonymous 7w

I’ve moved to 2 sets to failure in the 6-8 rep range and have seen good results.

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Anonymous 7w

I plateaud recently, turned out it was bc I reached a new level of general intensity with how much weight I'm lifting, and w that, I was doing way too much during my circuits. So I had to go down in the volume of my exercises and spread them out a bit more. Then BAM, I started progressing again!

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Anonymous 7w

Just switching it up at all will improve ur strength

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Anonymous 7w

It doesn’t matter what you do, what matters is you hit failure or wear out your fibers more. Heavier gets you there faster but has the risk of injury more

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

How much where you doing? I do do 2 exercises for each muscle group and 3 sets of each (chest,back,triceps, and biceps) same for legs stuff

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

An example of a lower body day: 3x6-8 Hip Thrusts, 3x7 (with 22 pulses per set) hip abductors hitting all 3 versions (all the way back, leaned forward, all the way forward), 3x9 RDL Dupes on back extension machine, 3x7 Kickbacks, 2x6 Lying Hamstring Curls + 1x7 each leg, 3x8 Leg extensions, 3x16 Calf extensions, 3x8 Adductors

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

An example of an upper body day: 3x8 Preacher curls, 2x8+1x8 (single arm) Shoulder press, 3x8 Cable bicep curls, 3x9 cable lateral raises, 1x9 + 2x8 (single arm) bicep curl machine, 3x9 reverse pec flies, 3x9 tricep press, 3x8 cable machine tricep pushdowns, 3x9 Narrow grip cable rows, 3x9 lat pulldowns, 3x20 ab crunch machine, 3x15 hanging leg raises

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

Is that you too much volume stuff?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

The issue is I was doing ts 7days/week and those are examples of my light circuits And I was running two miles before, and doing 15-20 minutes on the stairmaster after every day 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

Ohhh that is way too much

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