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Originally Posted by Retiree
Research is mostly useless for this stuff...they mostly pick people who never trained before or people who train a little and have no idea what they are doing...so they can easily gain some small amount of muscle doing whatever...even 15 reps. But if someone works out for over a year, those things become useless and muscles will need much more stimulus than that.
Bodybuilders are doing videos how they do 12 or more reps and people think thats the way to go, but they don't show the amount of drugs they take along with that. For most normal people, doing regular diets, who train 3-6 times per week, small amount of reps is the best. Old school pyramid was working 50 years ago and is still working now...increase weight with each set, until only 1-2 reps are possible. Easy and effective.
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I'm not sure where you get your research or whether it's just an opinion (which I think is the case) - as said before my son is doing it and there is noticeable growth and shaping of his upper body. I'm not sure why suddenly this is now in question but I guess that's the way people today think - don't trust science - don't trust anything and there is always a catch. That all being said - my son doesn't do drugs nor others that I know who do the same - it's natural and works.