Pyramid Sets?
As an avid Men's Health reader I am not what you'd typically call a bodybuilder due to my constant desire to keep BF% to a minimum and my reluctance to even consider taking creatine / weight gainers, and / or any hormones, I basically take multi-vitamins, whey and omega 3s and that's the extent of my supplement intake.
Anyway I've recently moved town and there's no gym to speak of but there's one 17 miles away which has a vast array of free-weights, cables, the lot basically, needless to say I've paid my year's membership up-front and I'm looking forward to a very productive year.
Here's my problem, I've found a workout in the latest edition of my mag which I'll do for a month, although I just need some clarification as to what it is exactly that I have to do. I have everything sorted apart from one of my three sessions, which I will now tell you about.
This is an extract from my mag....
CHEST AND BACK
Perform 5 pyramid sets of 5-40 reps on each exercise:
1) Flat-bench-press and wide grip pull-ups.
2) Incline-bench-press and T-bar rows.
3) Flat-bench dumb-bell flys.
4) Wide-grip bent-over bar-bell rows, dips and close-grip pull ups.
I've just done some research into pyramid sets and I get a rough idea of what I need to do e.g. start light and gradually get heavier. I would appreciate it though if someone could tell me how many reps the first of my five sets should be, would it be fourty reps, or does 4o reps mean total reps for five sets? And how do I do pyramid sets which consist of multiple exercises? I'm confused.
I'd also like to add that I'm thinking of doing the flies on a machine as I have read that this is the best way of doing them, e.g. there's resistance until the very moment that my hands touch. Should I give this a whirl or are free-weights better?
In any case, I'd just like a little help with this matter so that I can hit the gym next week and approach this part of my workout with the knowledge that I need.
Cheers.
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