Well at least it didn't get any worse

[troupatour]

I had saintdave22 ask me this morning if yesterday got any better. It didn't get any worse really, so I'll accept that. The cleaners took a slightly dirty tie and made it a ruined tie with whatever they put on it to remove the off-colored spot. Now there are what appears to be rings of cleaner residue in concentric circles coming off of the spot

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[mastershake_42]

Looking at your summer burnout routine and I used to do something similar (except with free weights) but it's actually more efficient if you figure out what your top end is and just start there (after a warm up set or 2 of course) and work your way down. That way you aren't wasting energy building up to your max. That combined with doing negatives (of course that requires a spotter) is the quickest way for muscle gain but in either case you are really doing more work than necessary unless you're goal is to really bulk up.
If you are going more for basic fintess gain then 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps each is stil the best bang for the buck. My workout sessions used to be 2-3 hours back in my army days (that was just weights mind you, no cardio) and now my weight routines are about 20-30 minutes and are probably just as effective if not more so.
Of course since you are going to a gym that means you have access to free weights and you'll get a lot more benefit from those than from any machine (especially dumbells).

bulking up

[troupatour]

Well, I'm actually trying to put on a bunch of mass in a short amount of time. The theory behind the working up to your max is to keep you from pulling anything because the muscles are already tired by the time you get up to the max weight and you won't over-press. But the free-weights are ideal if you're almost alone in the gym. The reason for the machines in my case is because I don't want to go to workout at 11PM on a Friday as the centerpiece of my routine. ;)