Hello,
@the hansenator
Are there any benefits that are unique to high rep training
Yes there are benefits. Nonetheless, as always, it depends a lot on your goals. What are they ?
- Per se, this kind of training is based on massive amount of reps. So it will help you to burn some fat with a quite low impact in terms of fatigue and soreness.
- You will be able to train anywhere, anytime, with full body moves, so it will easily transfer to daily life.
- It will build a great endurance, whether we talk about muscular endurance or cardio-vascular endurance. Indeed, if you do your repetitions with short rest (for instance every 45 minutes), you will have a very frequent "boost".
- To a certain extent, it will build some strength, whether it is maximal or relative strength. However, this method of training quickly ends up with diminishing returns in terms of strength gains, so you only train endurance (which can be your goal and which can be very interesting as well). However, this kind of training protocol can maintain (but not necessarily increase) you maximal strength, or at least a very acceptable level.
- It will help you to dial your technique.
- It lead to a certain amount of hypertrophy.
As drawbacks:
- It can lead to joint issues because you the exact same thing everyday.
- It can be boring (but this is highly subjective)
- This is tough to make the training harder or to track the progression. To make it harder, you can: do the same amount of repetitions, but in a reduced time frame (for instance, doing the reps in the morning only, instead of the entire day) ; you can use harder variations.
To sum up, this method can be some kind of "compromise".
Kind regards,
Pet'