low reps or high reps which is better for bulking

[Bob Smith]

My goal isnt strength, so I have no real need to go to failure or max on any movement. I can still easily track my strength gains without going to concentric (or more) failure. Even while dieting I have continued to get stronger nearly every workout or at the least every week and I am hitting each muscle 3-4x/week.

 

[MANWHORE]

My goal isnt strength, so I have no real need to go to failure or max on any movement. I can still easily track my strength gains without going to concentric (or more) failure. Even while dieting I have continued to get stronger nearly every workout or at the least every week and I am hitting each muscle 3-4x/week.

O yeah? Well,i use the 40lb dumbells for curls
I have alot of different training schedules,but pushing a muscle to failure,gives me best results in strength and,therefor,size. Are you using the HST(is that the name)training? The only reason i switch to a lower intensity training schedule,is because i think too much failure type sets might be too hard on my body,after too long

 

[Hogg]

Like if you did some serious glycogen depletion and didn't drink any water for 2 days?

actually, I was just thinking about overtraining.....in chronic cases, mass loss is inevitable. You could also run cals and protein down under maintenance and then watch cortisol run its course. Your method would work also but you are playing with cellular elements rather than catabolizing tissue directly.

 

[Ronin_]

My goal isnt strength, so I have no real need to go to failure or max on any movement. I can still easily track my strength gains without going to concentric (or more) failure. Even while dieting I have continued to get stronger nearly every workout or at the least every week and I am hitting each muscle 3-4x/week.

3-4x/week - whats your split, you training with whole body sessions Bob?

 

[Grizzly]

How are you keeping track of your strength,if your not going to failure?

Simple. Say you hit 225X5X5 in a given workout. The next workout, you do 230-235X5X5 and the next is 235-240X5X5 and so on and so forth until the unloading(see that Freddy? ) phase in which things are changed around, but each week the weight still goes up. You just take it to near failure, but never to failure.

 

[Bob Smith]

O yeah? Well,i use the 40lb dumbells for curls
I have alot of different training schedules,but pushing a muscle to failure,gives me best results in strength and,therefor,size. Are you using the HST(is that the name)training? The only reason i switch to a lower intensity training schedule,is because i think too much failure type sets might be too hard on my body,after too long

Actually Im not doing HST right now for my workouts, gimme about a month and Ill be back on those. I am doing the workouts that coincide with Lyle's Ultimate Diet 2.0. Im droppin fat and gettin stronger every week, so cant beat that. I must admit that it'll be nice when I go back to HST and only 3x/wk and a nomral MWF routine.