If LSU does indeed hire Herman , keeping O would be the most impressive thing he could possibly do in his first days as HC bar none . EDIT Hit save too fast , oops But barring that , Houston would be a great place for O to land . He ' s close to his native land and is a recruiting genius . He ' d do well . <| sep |> If your goal is strength and also to increase rep count I think you need to restructure your whole training model . You are during endurance work and exhausting your muscles nervous system like that . I would focus more on strength by extending the pauses between sets to at least 4 minutes decrease your rep range and add weight . So I would keep rep ranges between 16 with added weight I would not go down in weight and burn out the muscle along the sets , meaning when you can ' t do 6 reps with 20 kg . You take the weight down to 15 kg don ' t do that but keep the max weight on the given reps constant . So when I can ' t do my targeted rep range any more I would stop do something else . Instead of going down in weight and burning myself out to the end makes sense ? If you build strength you will be able to increase your rep max . You don ' t increase rep max by trying to max out in reps as fast as if you work on primarily on gorilla strength . Once in a rare while you can go for max reps with only your bodyweight . Regards to the muscle up , I ' ve made a complete tutorial on how to achieve the muscle up with training philosophy , reps sets on www . dominiksky . net . I also talk about my diet and show you exactly what I eat myself . But nomatter what you need to make sure that you consume at least the same amount of energy as you consume and preferably a little more of all the right good stuff that would give you energy . Weather you buy a program or not In order to learn a skill you must break it down and work on the prestages to the exercise . This includes all the muscles that you would use in the move , by gradually increasing the leverage difficulties . If you want a front lever for example , you would need to start with tucked front lever , or a tuck front lever negatives and work your way out from there over time .