I just want to know what your experience with rep ranges with respect to strength training, long term. As I am a bit stuck with my training.
Everything else being equal, sets of 5 have been shown to be the most effective rep range for strength gains.
Since when? Did you just read Starting Strength or something?
Bill Starr used and adopted 5x5.
Do you know why?
Because it worked for him and was a simple mass produced program that he could give to his athletes while allowing them enough recovery to train for their sport.
Literally the only people that used 5's were a fringe group of American football players and now everything thinks it's the "most efficient" way to train. Fuck efficiency. I have no idea why you'd want your training to be "efficient" as a strength athlete unless you needed to concentrate on another sport. I think I've been through this before. If it worked so well there wouldn't be entire subreddits dedicated to people trying to get their shitfest of a back squat up to 400lb
Saying that 5's are the most effective rep range for "strength gains" is so wrong it's not funny. It will get you good at doing 5's. If you're after maximal strength, you need to practice maximal strength. Build on volume then ramp up the weights. You can't do this with any one rep range. I also can't find shit on Bill Starr's training, as far as I can see it was just a routine he made for his athletes
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