[Jordan Massingham]

James, could you share your workout on the Yates split? Do you rotate exercises? Or stick with a set plan and aim for progression?

[Jordan Massingham]

Thanks for the reply sas I love the simplicity of the way you and Chris do things, going back to he gym for the he first time in 18 months today. With all the volume you do do you take any of your sets to failure?

[Jordan Massingham]

Cheers man, been off training for nearly 2 years so thought it was time to get back into it, really interesting to see a top pros prep, with the insulin is it almost used like a GDA if you were with your biggest carb meals around training to helps manage BG? You said earlier that Chris think your getting better pumps because you’ve haven’t been killing yourself everyday like usual, does he even give any input into your training side? It seems loads of his guys train just like yourself with a lot of volume ect? Also as a guy getting back into the gym what would your recommendation regarding training be? I’m pretty skinny fat now ???? trained for around 8 years before love low volume HIT but kills my joints?

[Jordan Massingham]

Just signed back up to this site, wow your contest thread is great! Great to see someone at your level putting out the information you are! How come you use insulin so close to the show and throughout prep? Also what type are you using? What’s the lowest amount of carbs you’ve had to use it on?

[Jordan Massingham]

Sas nice to see what a volume based session looks like how close to failure do you take those set? Do you find that you train with less rest between sets with volume?

[Jordan Massingham]

Jordan I notice in your diet that on training days the protein adds up slightly lower than 500g with the macros given. Is this because the 60g you have a most meals doesn’t include any incomplete proteins from food, but you still include it in your total?

[Jordan Massingham]

Sas how do you feel about this lower volume high intensity approach opposed to a higher volume training program?

[Jordan Massingham]

Hi Corinne

Thanks for reply, totally agree with regards to diet and training, would there not become a point when push cals and carbs to add the extra weight, your body simply cannot produce enough insulin to keep the BG down and it would slowly creep up to pre diabetes? Obviously I know that training, cardio ect all play a part in lowering BG

[Jordan Massingham]

Wicked response mate thank you, how much volume are you doing across a week roughly? It’s interesting you say Yates trained with lower volume than you do now, so increased the intensity- I’ve always thought of training volume and going past failure/to failure/leaving a few reps in the tank as a seesaw if I do 1 set it’s all out past failure, 2/3 sets per exercise would be to failure and any higher I’d stop a few short. Is there a time you’d ever recommend stopping a few short of failure on sets? I notice you don’t often see Coleman or Cutler performing reps with a spot or training past failure.

[Jordan Massingham]

Jordan really interesting point you make about those 50/50 reps in the Sas video, do you feel going beyond failure is where you get most injuries occur? Would this be limited to jut pre contest? Really valid to me as after training for 4/5 year with low volume Yates style hit I struggle to last longer than 4 weeks without a new niggle/injury

[Jordan Massingham]

thansk jordan I noticed on some programs specifically the 4 day split in articals section you list 3 or 2 sets 8-10 reps. For would this would you just use same wieght each on set to failure?

[Jordan Massingham]

Jordan I’ve seen on some exercises you’ll do more than 2 sets? why is that will you add another higher rep range?