@gnomez, question about increasing weight as the reps decrease...
Most of the body beast routines increase the weight as you do sets of... 15, 12, and 8 15, 12, 8, and 8 (the weight drops on the last 8) or 15, 12,8,8,12 and 15 again.
Usually I grab the biggest weight I know I can do 15 times, and then each lift goes up 5 or 10 lbs as the reps come down. By the time I get to the heaviest part my muscles are pretty fatigued already so my max isn't as much as it could be. Is that the way to go or should I start off lighter to make bigger jumps in weight and be to able to lift more at the heaviest weight?
Does it just end up being one of those strength vs size vs endurance?
I would suggest the latter Fewer reps and heavier weights I guess it depends what you are trying to achieve If trying to tone up and lose body fat I think people always do lighter weights and higher reps I train for powerlifting/building strength so I do much fewer reps. Bench for example this week I did
1 set x 12 reps of 60kg purely as a warm up Then 1 x 8 x 70kg Then 1 x 6 x 80kg Then 5 x 3 x 90kg
The reps will stay the same, but I'm curious to what the different results would be, if any, just by changing how much weight I go up between the sets.
Say the reps are 15,12, and 8, and I go up 5 lbs each set: 40, 45, 50. 40 would be the most I can do of an exercise and still hit all the reps. By the time I start the third set (50) my arms are dead and my lift has only gone up 10 lbs total.
Would I get better results if I started the set with a lighter weight in order to make bigger jumps in weight and hopefully end up with a heavier weight? Say 25, 40, 55+?
I'm more of an option A guy, while Body Beast seems to be Option B.
That's a lot of reps And your talking in lbs The increments you're going up by are minimal? You'd be better off to increase the weights between reps, depending on what particular lift you are doing Squat or deadlift for example you could comfortably increase by 20lb at a time? If you are doing bench it might be less So yeah - make bigger jumps
Beast mode baby! It depend on the exercise, I make bigger increases for squats and deads, but I think I tend to start off too heavy to make bigger jumps in weights. I like it heavy every time. If I can do 16 reps, its not enough lol, but it makes for smaller jumps in weight.
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Most of the body beast routines increase the weight as you do sets of...
15, 12, and 8
15, 12, 8, and 8 (the weight drops on the last 8) or
15, 12,8,8,12 and 15 again.
Usually I grab the biggest weight I know I can do 15 times, and then each lift goes up 5 or 10 lbs as the reps come down. By the time I get to the heaviest part my muscles are pretty fatigued already so my max isn't as much as it could be. Is that the way to go or should I start off lighter to make bigger jumps in weight and be to able to lift more at the heaviest weight?
Does it just end up being one of those strength vs size vs endurance?
Fewer reps and heavier weights
I guess it depends what you are trying to achieve
If trying to tone up and lose body fat I think people always do lighter weights and higher reps
I train for powerlifting/building strength so I do much fewer reps.
Bench for example this week I did
1 set x 12 reps of 60kg purely as a warm up
Then 1 x 8 x 70kg
Then 1 x 6 x 80kg
Then 5 x 3 x 90kg
Say the reps are 15,12, and 8, and I go up 5 lbs each set: 40, 45, 50. 40 would be the most I can do of an exercise and still hit all the reps. By the time I start the third set (50) my arms are dead and my lift has only gone up 10 lbs total.
Would I get better results if I started the set with a lighter weight in order to make bigger jumps in weight and hopefully end up with a heavier weight? Say 25, 40, 55+?
I'm more of an option A guy, while Body Beast seems to be Option B.
And your talking in lbs
The increments you're going up by are minimal?
You'd be better off to increase the weights between reps, depending on what particular lift you are doing
Squat or deadlift for example you could comfortably increase by 20lb at a time?
If you are doing bench it might be less
So yeah - make bigger jumps
It depend on the exercise, I make bigger increases for squats and deads, but I think I tend to start off too heavy to make bigger jumps in weights. I like it heavy every time. If I can do 16 reps, its not enough lol, but it makes for smaller jumps in weight.