Of all the training programs out there that promise big jumps in strength and size, few can hold a candle to reverse pyramid training (RPT). Made popular by Swedish trainer and nutritional consultant ...

THERE'S A REASON why “3 sets of 10” has been a strength training mainstay since at least the 1950s: The rep scheme works. Decades of research and reams of real-world evidence prove that hefting a load ...

The reverse pyramid is a highly versatile method of creating a full-body workout plan. Here is another arrangement of exercises using the reverse pyramid from 20-1. This is a fairly advanced workout ...

If you’re a regular at the weight rack, you likely have a range of rep schemes in your training arsenal. Drop sets, monster sets, giant sets, supersets, tri-sets—even if they aren’t part of your ...

You will see in both my Military.com articles and my books that I like the Pyramid System of training. Though it does not make up a majority of my programming, it has a significant part in building a ...