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German Volume Training Questions

#1

Thinking about giving German volume training a go and had a couple questions.

I can’t find a whole lot of info out there, T nation has a couple articles and some other sites do as well.

Main question:

Right now I’m doing a 6 day a week PPL

Back and bi
Chest tri and shoulders
And legs

It seems a lot of the GVT templates I’m seeing out there are a little more broke down into basically 1 body part a day, example

Monday: back
Tuesday: shoulders
Wednesday: chest
:Thursday: legs
Friday: arms

Or something like that.

Is that what I should do?

I did a sample workout today and did 10x10 bench and 10x10 BTN OHP… I feel like I might be better served by doing one main movement and then adding 2-3 accessories for said movement. BUT, I really enjoy getting beat down in the gym and spending a good bit of time, that’s what has me considering keeping it almost like a PPL style but 10x10… or is that too outside the GVT standards?

#2

If you’re doing GVT, do whatever Charles Poliquin says to do. He’s the one who popularized it for building muscle. Everyone else is a variation of his info. (Not necessarily wrong, but definitely a variation/offshoot).

The most basic explanation is here: https://www.t-nation.com/training/tip-use-gvt-to-build-muscle-fast

The first part of this article also has some info.

One workout isn’t really a great snapshot of the program, but if you got 10 reps for all 10 sets on day one, something already went wrong.

Lee Boyce laid out a version like that with one bodypart per day.

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#3

Maik Weidenbach is on youtube and he’s a great advocate of volume training.