http://beebleblog.com/2007/04/07/training-styles-pyramid-training/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=training-styles-pyramid-training A Fitness, Diet and Health Blog Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://beebleblog.com/2007/04/07/training-styles-pyramid-training/comment-page-1/#comment-18370 hugo Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:38:29 +0000 http://beebleblog.com/2007/04/07/training-styles-pyramid-training/#comment-18370 Yes it is difficult to actually perform pyramid training with just your body weight as each set has to be taken to near fatigue and the theory being that if on the first set you do 12 and then on the second you do 15 then surely you should have done 15 on the first set as the weight hasn't changed. A good way to pyramid train the body weight exercises is to do just one side of the pyramid but to do the opposite direction that you have been doing. So the first set should be the most amount of reps then the second set should be less. So you could do 18-15-12 but with body weight exercises I wouldn't be as structured as this. I would do as many as I could with perfect technique then rest for 30secs to 1min then perform as many as I could again (which should naturally be slightly less than the first set) maintaining good technique and so on until 3 to 5 sets have been completed. So the numbers may look less pretty (e.g. 23-22-17-11) but you will have got the most from the exercise. Yes it is difficult to actually perform pyramid training with just your body weight as each set has to be taken to near fatigue and the theory being that if on the first set you do 12 and then on the second you do 15 then surely you should have done 15 on the first set as the weight hasn’t changed. A good way to pyramid train the body weight exercises is to do just one side of the pyramid but to do the opposite direction that you have been doing. So the first set should be the most amount of reps then the second set should be less. So you could do 18-15-12 but with body weight exercises I wouldn’t be as structured as this. I would do as many as I could with perfect technique then rest for 30secs to 1min then perform as many as I could again (which should naturally be slightly less than the first set) maintaining good technique and so on until 3 to 5 sets have been completed. So the numbers may look less pretty (e.g. 23-22-17-11) but you will have got the most from the exercise.

]]> http://beebleblog.com/2007/04/07/training-styles-pyramid-training/comment-page-1/#comment-18247 K G Rao Fri, 29 May 2009 17:04:13 +0000 http://beebleblog.com/2007/04/07/training-styles-pyramid-training/#comment-18247 Very interesting. Now, i happen to be trying to do my bodywt ex in sets also, and hv been trying an inverted pyramid similar to the one described for wts. Since one cant increase the wt as such, i've been trying increased reps with each set, e.g. 12-15-18. haven't got around to working my way dn the pyramid, but would this be the way to pyramid one's sets with bodywt ex? Very interesting. Now, i happen to be trying to do my bodywt ex in sets also, and hv been trying an inverted pyramid similar to the one described for wts. Since one cant increase the wt as such, i’ve been trying increased reps with each set, e.g. 12-15-18. haven’t got around to working my way dn the pyramid, but would this be the way to pyramid one’s sets with bodywt ex?

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