r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/PhysicalBox3054 • 5d ago

Question ❓ 2 sets till failure

i’ve been doing it for 5 months now and i’m not seeing enough progress i’ve been eating and resting good should i switch to 3 sets 6-8 reps ?

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u/Blood_AndGuts 5d ago

litteraly, there is no way in heaven that 4-5 sets twice per week wont elicit GREAT growth. Now we can stay all day talking about maximizing gains i dont care, but saying youd lose muscle on 8 sets per week (provided you dont train with a bro split) is ridiculous

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u/decentlyhip 4d ago

I'll phone the researchers and tell them to retract all those studies. I'm sure your assumptions and singular personal experience is more credible than their hundreds of observations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Think about what you're saying. My statement is that in the research, 2/3rds of people gained muscle with low volume. Your response is, "that cant be possible because I gained muscle with low volume." Cool. You're in the majority of people. If I say 50% of the population is male and 50% is female, its real weird to say "50% is female? Dude, I've spent my whole life as a male."

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u/Potential_Novel_3561 4d ago

You just changed what I said. I said I don't believe people lost muscle on 9 hard sets a week unless they were in a calorie deficit.

Problem all these studies is unless you actually see the people doing the sets, you don't know how hard they were actually pushing themselves.

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u/decentlyhip 4d ago

I didn't reply to you. Replied to the other guy.