>>76604942
>If training often is better than necessarily the intensity/volume has to go down right?
Usually yes but you still need high enough activation which requires high enough intensity no matter how often you train.
Using 1-2 reps in reserve helps reducing muscle damage but any more than that will greatly reduce the stimulus.
Fatigue/damage are what kill advanced lifters' progress.
>So just getting easy, quality work in is better than busting your ass and doing it again after a week?
You still need high enough activation under slow contraction velocity which requires either heavy loads for a few reps, or light loads for many reps each set, the former being way better than the latter.
The human body doesn't respond well to high volume in a given period of time be it 10 minutes or a whole workout, humans just like all animals respond better to short frequent bouts.
>And how do roids change this equation?
Once a lifter introduces a certain amount of gear into the equation he will grow no matter how he trains for at least a few months until his body acclimates to the constantly elevated androgens and it becomes his new "baseline" and a plateau is reached.
Only way to break that plateau is with more drugs or better training but usually more drugs have a stronger impact which makes it near impossible to determine optimal training methods if we only look at how genetic freaks on undisclosed amounts of gear train.
This is why elite weightlifters train like they do, they can't get their hands on all the drugs unlike strongmen/powerlifters/bodybuilders who just up the dose each time they plateau, so they are forced to maximize their training efficiency instead.
>Arnold
He changed his training several times in the past, he even trained with arthur jones in the 70s and admits he saw improvements.
Arthur jones made bodybuilders do 3x a week full body workouts with ~2 sets per muscle group.
>Tom Platz
Just like arnold he experimented with his training and dosages.
