Nick500

the idea behind this is to overload the muscle not overtrain.

if you only do the highest weight on the muscle you will overload on power, the maximum amount of strain possible on the muscle, without giving it a let up. This will stimulate the greatest fibre deconstruction and thus promote protein synthesis most effectively.

doing drop sets will only lessen the lasting effect of the overload you just achieved by doing the heavy weight, and strain past any useful point.


-- i can get my trainer guy to give a proper explanation if you like but thats what i seem to get from what he says, i could be incorrect