Suppose I'm happy with how strong I am, say with respect to pushups, but I want to be able to do more repetitions.  What's the best way to do that?  More frequent exercise?  Increase the resistance?  Something else?

I learned how to do pullups with a "grease the groove" method. I went from 0 to 1 to 5 to 10 using this. The theory is simple. Do small amounts of reps every chance you can - never fatigue yourself, never get tired.

For pullups, I put a bar in my bathroom doorway. I set a rule - every time through that doorway, I would (attempt) 1 pullup. I started with negatives (jump and lower yourself as slow as possible). I didn't care about form or anything. I just did 1, every time.

It's a rough estimate. Based on how I felt after doing a single pullup. I didn't regularly test it, no, but upon completion of one, I felt like "I can do X more of these". The 10 is what I can do now (well, I could do a wee bit more, but 10 is a good round number) without form getting all sloppy.

It's actually not that different from EDT concepts. It's about getting the most number of reps in during a given period of time. The more reps you do, the more you'll be able to do. EDT is just a shorter time span

Density training, like Phrakture suggested.

Is this the proper term? I've heard: Consolidation Training, High-Set Training, Grease The Groove, and now Density Training. Stupid fitness and it's 7 million terms for everything

Density training, like Phrakture suggested.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding one or the other, but it seems to me that what Phrakture is advocating is very different from density training.  I take Phrakture to be saying what matters is, say, the number of pushups one does per day, even if one does them one at a time in an unstructured way, while I take density training to mean doing a structured exercise session, maybe twice a week, that consists of a fixed number of repetitions divided into a decreasing number of sets of increasing number of repetitions.

Warren what do you do?

I currently do a single set of as many repetitions as I can on a very irregular basis - sometimes on consecutive days, sometimes skipping weeks.

Quote from: Wlfdg on July 23, 2010, 12:13:25 AM

Density training, like Phrakture suggested.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding one or the other, but it seems to me that what Phrakture is advocating is very different from density training.  I take Phrakture to be saying what matters is, say, the number of pushups one does per day, even if one does them one at a time in an unstructured way, while I take density training to mean doing a structured exercise session, maybe twice a week, that consists of a fixed number of repetitions divided into a decreasing number of sets of increasing number of repetitions.

That is still increasing workload in a specific amount of time. It's just longer than a 20 min. PR Zone.

Warren what do you do?

I currently do a single set of as many repetitions as I can on a very irregular basis - sometimes on consecutive days, sometimes skipping weeks.

Successful increase in workload, strength, etc.. comes with consistency. That's #1.