FREE Download | Bill Pearl's Maximum Volume Training

Bill Pearl exemplifies one extreme of the bodybuilding training paradigm while Dorian Yates exemplifies the other extreme. Pearl's volume regiment requires the trainee to perform lots of sets, reps and exercises. Pearl typically hits a dozen or more exercises per session cramming as many as sixty sets into each session. He hits each muscle two or three times per week. Bill never goes to failure. He talked of establishing a session rhythm; a momentum, an accelerated pace. From commencement until conclusion, the trainee is in continual rotational motion.

Bill rotated exercises religiously, periodically alternating movements to keep things fresh and vibrant. Technique is approached with reverence; make the mind-muscle connection critical. Bill stresses feel and muscular contraction and trains six days per week whereas Dorian would handle massive poundage in short, less frequent weekly sessions. Bill is a stickler for proper technique. A Pearl workout has a uniform evenness about it from start to finish. Bill wears a muscle down. Dorian knocks it out.

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