Thoughts on GVT

[RaginT]

I will be starting a GVT routine tomorrow. I have been doing a 5 day split for about a year now, and want to try something new. I've searched around and it just seems to be the same two articles everywhere.

German Volume Training:

By
Charles Poliquin
http://www.charlespoliquin.net/ArticlesDisplay.cfm?ArticleID=7

By Lee Hayward
http://www.leehayward.com/art24.htm

I am posting to see if anyone has anything interesting or worthwile to add, personal experiences or suggestions. I've got the basics of the routine down, i'll be starting a journal to track progress, and i'm really looking forward to trying something different and aparently challanging.

I dont think that overtraining will be a problem as the 5 days split we (my training partner and I) used for the past year has on occasion gotten near to 10 sets, thought spread over different excercises. I will as the article suggests do the beginner design for 6 weeks then change it up slightly and maybe try the other techniques he mentions. The journal will tell all i guess.

Let me know of any personal experiences you have with this training style.

[Paul Stagg]

I never liked it, but that doesn't mean it won't work for you.

[heathj]

Every once in a while I would throw in a low set/low rep workout. I've read some theories and something along the lines of high rep/high set will help the things inside your muscles grow: water intake, cell volume, etc, etc...but only will a low set/low rep workout every once in a while will make your actual muscle fibers grow.

It may work wonders though, who knows. Watch out for those joints though.