Is ONE Set Enough to Build Muscle?

Mike Mentzer, pioneer of High Intensity Training, preached in his Heavy Duty e book {that a} single set taken to all out failure with most effort was all you wanted in an effort to construct muscle.

Was this legitimate?

Well, as we all know, coaching requires a fragile stability of quantity and depth. The greater the quantity, the decrease the depth and as depth goes up, quantity comes down. So that signifies that a exercise with excessive quantity will not be going make use of heavy hundreds nor will it require as a lot effort per set.

Like I’ve all the time stated, you may practice lengthy or you may practice laborious, however you may’t do each.

With restoration in thoughts, this can be very tough to coach with a excessive variety of units and reps utilizing heavy weights after which come again and practice with that very same depth. On the opposite aspect of the coin, if you’re coaching with low quantity, you received’t obtain the mandatory stimulus for progress through the use of gentle weights.

As I stated earlier than, there’s a delicate stability between quantity and depth. Finding that stability is likely one of the most essential issues you are able to do as a pure lifter.

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Jeff Cavaliere MSPT, CSCS served as each the top bodily therapist and assistant power coach for the New York Mets. Jeff earned his Masters of Physical Therapy and Bachelor’s of Physioneurobiology from the College of Health Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs. He is an authorized Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).