The goal is to really focus on your form so that your body learns the proper technique as early on as possible. A lot more weight. Luckily, since you are performing a lot of reps, you are still going to see improvements in your muscle tone. Still, fight the urge to skip ahead. You should keep your strength workouts structured like this for eight weeks, moving up in weight as you feel comfortable.
Your formula: You should be able to increase your weight by two to five percent each week, he says. Keep a strength training log with your number of reps, sets and pounds lifted to track your progress and see growth. Low-intensity training is typically considered aerobic exercise, since oxygen plays a key role in energy or production.
This allows you to maintain your activity level for a longer period of time. This energy process occurs primarily in slow-twitch muscle fibers, so performing low-intensity, high-repetition training builds up the mechanisms within the muscle cell that make it more aerobically efficient.
This type of training enhances the muscle's endurance without necessarily increasing the size of the muscle. Highly trained aerobic athletes can do lots of reps for long periods of time without fatiguing, but you won't typically see a sprinter's body on a marathon runner. Focusing on muscle endurance means choosing fairly light weights that can be done for reps or more. Train like an endurance athlete: Most endurance sports aren't gym-based, so it's hard to duplicate their motions with weights.
Rest periods should be kept fairly short, since oxygen intake and lactic-acid removal shouldn't be limiting factors as you exercise. Discovering how many reps you should do also tells you how much weight you should lift.
The two are inseparably linked. If you were to plot a graph, you'd discover a near-linear inverse relationship between the two: add more weight and you can do fewer reps; with a lighter weight, you can do more reps. I'm always amazed when I train with a new partner who has been stuck at a certain weight-and-rep scheme—say, dumbbell bench press with 80 pounds for 8 reps.
I'll tell him to grab the 90s, to which he'll respond, "I can't do that! Invariably, he'll handle the 90s, and with that newfound sense of strength even give the 95s and s a try. With time, you'll understand your personal strength curve and the relationship of weight to reps for each exercise you do. Jotting your numbers down in a logbook or on BodySpace will help you keep track of your reps and weights used.
This brings up an important point: You don't need to train in one rep range all the time. You might start a workout with a heavy compound exercise for 5 sets of 5 reps.
To focus on building muscle, you could follow that with a few exercises in the range. To finish the workout, you could even tap into your slow-twitch reserves and finish the session with an isolation exercise in the range.
This is important because as you get stronger, you'll want to lift more weight in the same rep range. When building muscle, once you can do more than about 12 reps on a core lift, it's time to increase the resistance by about percent. The weight you choose along your strength curve should correspond to the number of reps you want to achieve, which matches your training goals.
Theoretically, the longer a muscle is contracted, the greater the potential for damage to the tissue. The moderate-rep range, when coupled with a challenging weight, will also bring about a much-desired condition: the muscle pump. That tight, full feeling under the skin, caused by blood pooling in the muscle, has value beyond its ego-expanding qualities.
Studies have demonstrated that the physiological conditions which lead to a pump activate protein synthesis and limit protein breakdown. Thus, more of the protein you eat goes toward muscle construction instead of being burned off for energy. In a scientific twist of good fortune, the fast-twitch fibers appear to be the biggest beneficiaries of this phenomenon. So how many reps should you be doing to build muscle?
In the final analysis, substantial evidence argues that training in a moderate-rep range is the best way to build muscle mass. It increases hormone response, spares protein, and provides the necessary time under tension to spark muscle damage. These benefits work in unison to get you from pencil neck to powerhouse in no time. But does this mean you should store your low-rep and high-rep regimens away in the closet, underneath your parachute pants and Thriller album? Certainly not.
Cycle periods of low-rep training and high-rep training into your overall program, while progressively trying to increase your strength and perfect your exercise form every time you lift. If your haphazard training has been producing mixed results for a while now, consider periodizing your training.
Periodization is a system of training that organizes your workout into distinct cycles. I hear your logic. If every repetition means moving the weight a longer distance, then we get more stimulus out of every rep. And there may be some truth to that, especially on lifts with a flat strength curve. Thanks for the answer, man! Yeah, for sure. As taller guys, we have a dilemma—to stay with less muscle mass and be lighter or to gain some muscles but be heavier this is more for the bodyweight exercises.
The range of motion is indeed longer and harder for us, which is in some support of the logic for doing fewer reps. And according to some research, it should work better for the other tall guys, too, because taller people have more slow-twitch muscle fibres. And finally, when thinking about doing higher reps per set, the first tall people who come to my mind are you guys. I know you are tall and are doing quite well with higher reps.
The idea of the low rep range for taller guys and I think we should include the bigger guys—fat, with a wide frame and lots of muscles is to decrease the total travel path of the weights because it is believed that the weak link in the chain is the cardiovascular system.
I personally tend to agree that some exercises like squats and deadlifts are leaving you out of breath, but this is should be true for the smaller individuals, too.
For a year or two, I was a strong believer in doing 3 sets of 6 reps, but now I am starting to change my mind. Also, the form is very questionable. And finally, if you train with heavy weight, you exhaust yourself faster compared with the lighter weights, not because you are so tired, but because the weight is so heavy. With lighter weights, you can go closer to the sweet spot of the hypertrophy range.
Congratulations on this site. It is amazing the amount of quality information you have been able to distill and share with us here. Thank you so much! One quick question that comes to mind is the speed at which we should contract and extend the muscles for optimal muscle growth.
There is a lot of information out there pointing to different things such as 4 second extension with explosive contraction, or just do everything very slow, or keep a steady pace of about 2 seconds on each direction… Also, most to the ones that point out to very slow movements seem to be focused on very low reps and sets because of the exhaustion it can create.
Any thoughts? Long story short, a good default is to lift the weight explosively, trying to accelerate it up, and then to lower it back down under control. Depending on how challenging the weight is, that can take different amounts of time. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. So, is there a hypertrophy rep range?
And if so, what is it? Table of Contents. Shane Duquette. Shane Duquette on June 11, at pm. Thanks, Sam! Eric on September 20, at pm. This shows that the lower reps stimulated more muscle growth, when considering volume.
Shane Duquette on September 20, at pm. Charles on September 29, at am. When doing 4 sets of 8 reps can you go up in weight on each set for muscle growth. Shane Duquette on September 29, at am. I hope that helps! Shane Duquette on October 2, at am.
I hope that helps. Rob on October 12, at pm. Shane Duquette on October 12, at pm. So in your situation, that gives us: 1. Elias Meza on November 6, at am. Shane Duquette on November 6, at am.
Hey Elias, thank you! Elias Meza on November 7, at am. Thanks for all the info. Shane Duquette on November 8, at am. SnkyB on November 15, at am. Shane Duquette on November 15, at am. Dean Riyami on November 19, at pm.
Shane Duquette on November 21, at am. Dustin Wronka on January 11, at pm. Shane Duquette on January 12, at am. Hey Dustin, A good place to start is 3 sets of 8 reps. Alfons on January 17, at pm. Shane Duquette on January 18, at am. Jill on March 2, at pm. Shane Duquette on March 3, at am. Jill on March 3, at am. Evan on March 10, at am. So i tried the warm up sets and 1 working set to failure for my bench so it would like this Set 1: 95 pounds 12 reps Set 2: pounds reps Set 3: pounds reps Set 4: pounds reps Set 5: pounds Working Set : reps So as you can see when I increase the weight my reps are going lower and my form gets somewhat sloppy.
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