The way we're going to use sets of four in my "Primer 4" program is to "prime" you for the last set of four in the volume sequence. It's more or less the intellectual hot sister that never gets a date because she's misunderstood and doesn't get used up like her slutty sisters, the triple and "fives." The point is, sets of four have merit and you can build a solid foundation of strength and mass with a program based around them. Four is not an ugly number for strength training. Shieko, the Russian powerlifting system that's produced solid lifters, also uses sets of four throughout the programming. John Kuc, the first man to squat 900 pounds and who deadlifted a ridiculous 870 at a bodyweight of 242 pounds, did lots of sets of four in his training. They skip right over ugly number four and talk about "fives" like four never even existed. No one talks about their best "quad" rep set. Everyone knows what a single, double, or triple is, but when it gets to "four" people suddenly develop weight training amnesia. The number four is the lonely, bastard child of the strength rep scheme. That's where the Primer 4 Program comes in.
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