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The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that advanced athletes who want to maximize strength gains should lift heavy weights (1-6 repetition maximum) with three to five minutes rest between sets. Brazilian scientists reinforced this important principle of strength training. They measured the effect of resting one minute, three minutes or five minutes between sets during an intense, 16-week weight-training program designed to increase strength. Those resting three minutes or five minutes between sets gained more strength than those resting only one minute. Push big weights to get strong. You can't do this if you don't recover adequately between sets. (Journal Science Medicine Sport, in press; published online October 5, 2009) Posted in: Misc. Articles | | Comments Off
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Most bodybuilders enter the gym and tackle large, compound movements. After working through their 6 or 8 or 10 sets, they move on to isolation exercises, targeting the back, chest, legs, shoulders and arms. Perhaps at the very tail end of a routine, they'll add a few sets for abdominals or forearms. They believe they've achieved a complete, full-body workout and covered all their bases required to build a complete physique. However there is one muscle group, which is evident in every front and side pose in bodybuilding, which they overlook, much of the time: The serratus.
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