has anybody tried doing this? what are your thoughts?

just to clarify this is when you go up (or down, i guess) in weight, and down (or up) in reps in each set.

tried this last night doing bicep curls, felt like i had worked by biceps out harder than ever before. i'm not sure if doing pyramid sets was truly a better workout, or simply felt that way because it was something new that my muscles were not used to. time will tell i guess.

By pyramid do you mean like 5 sets 10-7-5-3-1 or whatever it is you want? I use to do that in highschool slowly working out to my max on my max days. I always felt like I made good gains using that method, but I wasn't trying out a bunch of different methods to see what worked best either as it was our football weightlifting program.

Pretty much all I do ever lol, unless I'm feeling overworked.

sickest pump ever brah

Useless.
ramping up strength is something else tho

I actually kind of like it, and use it myself..

My warm ups I suppose could be looked at as my 'Up' of the pyramid, usually would do a couple top sets, then I usually like to do 2-3 back off sets just for a pump for the most part.

L0L

same was 5-5-3-2-1 for us in football. Gainz were had but we was all noob pubers.

My exact person example. Lul

yeah, each set going up in weight. 2 people say they did this for football, i wonder what the specific reason is, time to hit the googles.

/e just reading a little bit it all says basically the same thing. light weight high reps help develop a pump, and the entire pyramid workout helps prevent hitting a plateau and supports muscles to continuously grow stronger instead of simply adapting to their workload. but wouldn't this be true with even sets/reps as well, as long as you know when to increase your weight?

would like to hear you guys' personal experience with this one, sounds legit to me.



kinda hard for me to take such an obtuse and inarticulate answer seriously, care to explain why?

This post was edited by Wretch on Feb 24 2015 03:56pm

here's what morons like hyphy never get and prolly never will, since they keep looking like shit and lifting diddly weight after training nearly a decade;

a large disparity in reps doesn't have nearly as much supra-load overlay tangent aiming to whatever goal you have in mind. I'm talking about pyramids like in post #2. when the disparity is that wide, there's no practical buildup. not in contractile proteins, not in lactic acid, not in multijoint compression. you're just dicking around. you sure can do something along the lines of 5x5 and follow it with 5x10's or whatever. you can also have sets with certain acceptable ranges like 10-15, or 3-5.

doing 20-15-10-7-3-5-1 or some shit like that literally pisses over the specificity rule. again, I'm not talking about ramping up strength sets like in 5-3-1.