High Volume


In early 1998 I went through a very short period (about 4 weeks) where I decided to follow the advice set forth in the muscle mags and go with a very high volume approach. I wasn't in the habit of logging my results into a database at the time so, unfortunately, I do not have any progress tables, however I did save the work-outs and the results were not worthy of tracking.

Ab work EVERY DAY PLUS 3 sets each of:
Monday
  • Deadlift
  • Row-Seated
  • PullDown-Lat-Front
  • Row-Bent
  • PullDown-Lat-Behind
  • Curl-Forearm
  • Curl-Bicep-Concentration
  • Curl-Bicep
Tuesday
  • Bench-Flat
  • Bench - Incline
  • Flies-Dumbell-Flat
  • Bench-Decline
  • Dips
Wednesday
  • Squats
  • Calf Raises
  • Leg Curls
  • Leg Extensions
  • Straight Leg Dead Lift
Thursday
  • Military Press
  • Shoulder Shrugs
  • Front Dumbell Laterals
  • Bent Dumbell Raises
  • Side Dumbell Laterals
  • Row-Upright
  • Seated Dumbell Press
Friday
  • Tricep Extensions
  • Tricep Pushdown
  • Dumbell Kickback
  • Overhead Dumbell Press
  • Curl-Tricep
Each workout took anywhere from one to two hours.

After the second week progress came to a halt, I had overtrained myself in record time! As luck would have it we celebrated Mardi Gras In New Orleans for our traditional vacation/annual honeymoon shortly thereafter that gave me the R&R I needed to recoop.

Upon my return I went back to my old standard full body workout (3x per week, two sets per exerscise) while I searched for something better. What I found was a logical, scientific and very reasonable approach known as
HIT (High Intensity Training)