Journal of Strength Monday, November 17, 2014 Today I did something that—to some lifters, at least—might seem rather odd. I performed a full-body workout of whatever I felt like doing, for relatively moderate to high reps. I had no idea what I was going to do, with the lone exception of the first exercise, until I actually started training. This might seem even more odd for those of you who read this blog regularly, which includes me often praising—rather highly, I might add—the benefits of high-frequency training for multiple sets of low reps. And here’s the thing: I actually think the kind of workout I did today can be highly effective, for a certain segment of the lifting population, at least. First, a little backtracking is in order. Last week I mentioned that I have been training using a regular program of high-set single...
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