TheGrindEqualsHappiness
Don Juan
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I think that we actually agree on more points than disagree.Well, the issue with your example is that it certainly isn't low volume-high intensity. I don't do 8 sets of anything throughout the week. My leg days as a whole are only like 12 sets.
Failure training doesn't work well for compounds regardless - I think Layne covers that in the video as well.
Perhaps a bad example, but I still disagree on the basis of connective tissue. Reason being that most gripes and groans for joints are related to inflammation, not tissue tears. I would argue that you're causing less inflammation by keeping your working sets lower in volume.
It's okay if we disagree here, this is just my train of thoughts and experiences of what I've heard from others who train like me. Most of them say that their body feels better on HIT than otherwise.
If you haven't, you might find Fortitude Training by Scott Stevenson to be both joint friendly and HIT. Just an unsolicited suggestion.
Thanks for the good faith conversation
For heavy compound lifts, especially the spine loading ones, the issue is keeping the form really good when approaching failure with heavy loads. Something little bit off on last reps of bicep-curl? who cares. Something little bit off in 5RM deadlift? Might need surgery, sh1tload of physical therapy, mk-677 and bpc-157 to fix that at this age..
Also the systemic fatigue is totally something else so SFR would be un-optimal also.
And I of course include some failure training myself, from 5 week mesocycles two last weeks before deload are failure weeks and last week has some beyond failure components. Streched partials for these are my favorite nowadays.
Thanks for the fortitude-training tip, I bet it's interesting concept to check out!
Good discussion!