Just think about it logically with me for a moment here, IST.
What's stopping me from doing:
>0pl8 for 45 reps = 900kg
>0pl8 for 75 reps = 1500kg
>0pl8 for 105 reps = 2100kg
>0pl8 for 135 reps = 2700kg
>0pl8 for 165 reps = 3300kg
Instead of:
>1pl8 for 15 reps = 900kg
>2pl8 for 15 reps = 1500kg
>3pl8 for 15 reps = 2100kg
>4pl8 for 15 reps = 2700kg
>5pl8 for 15 reps = 3300kg
When they achieve the same final objective?
Just let that sink in.
Pro tip: You literally have no argument against this.
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That's just cardio
Because it'll eventually be too much stress on your tendons and joints and might cause injuries
Aren't you putting huge stress on your joints and tendons with heavy lifts though? When I first got into lifting (from skelly) with dumbbells I was like 'this is easy, am stronk' and within a few days I ramped up to curling 40lbs, at which point I badly injured a wrist tendon and my left hand was effectively out of commission for 3 months. Fortunately I jerk off with my right so it could have been much worse.
When I picked it up again I was a lot more humble, also cause I'm >50 and really don't want to get medical problems. I tried 20lbs but had trouble doing lateral raises so I dropped to 10 and could manage that. I don't like constantly changing the weights around so I focused on reps, doing a mix of isometric and supersets and coming up with some routines that felt right. I was too overwhelmed by information so I just used my fingertips to figure out what the muscles were doing and sort of evolved a program while studying and learning.
So now I tend to do 60 reps of most exercises and 200 pushups/day plus starting to in other calisthenics. As you can imagine this is kinda time consuming so now I'm starting to add on extra weight in small increments, reduce the # of reps proportionally, build the reps back up, and keep doing that. Sometimes I'll do a set with heavier weights in the 40-60lb range and feel like I could go a lot higher, but I treat those as a fun bonus cause again I don't want an injury. I'm training at home so I don't want to chase a 1rm until I can get experienced supervision at a gym.
It's slow but I haven't had any tendon/ joint problems (and am much better at listening to my body now) while the strength/ appearance gains have kept suprising me. Like 3 months ago I had no chest or shoulders to speak of, now I feel like I'm wearing a meat suit. I had good legs from years of walking and cycling but the low weight/ high reps approach is transforming my upper body far faster than I anticipated.
Every choice you’ve described sounds like a dipshit move. Injuring yourself after a fee days of lifting by ramping up weights too fast.
Lift weights you can only lift 10-30 times before failure and you’ll progress. Above 30 rep sets you are not doing efficient strength or hypertrophy training.
failure is failure
your muscles doesn't care how many reps you do, they cannot count
the issue is just time, you're spending a lot more time than usual because your muscles needs 100 reps to reach near failure now
but this whole "you stop getting gains at XX reps" is total horseshit, gains are activated by reaching near failure
Well yeah, I just found some dumbbells on the street and was generally fit, so I was way overconfident and didn't know anyone to ask about it.
To grow muscles you need a high tension on the muscle. The bar is not enough tension.
I can get a 1kg pink dumbbell and do
>pink dumbbell for 900 reps = 900kg
>pink dumbbell for 1500 reps = 1500kg
>pink dumbbell for 2100 reps = 2100kg
>pink dumbbell for 2700 reps = 2700kg
>pink dumbbell for 3300 reps = 3300kg
and not much will happen.
You have no argument against this.
You need to activate muscle fibers. A light weight won't do it, you can lift that 10 times without thinking. But if you keep lifting, more and more muscle fibers will be recruited. If it's an Olympic bar for example, you'll probably start feeling a burn after 50 reps. If you get to 100 you'll be feeling it for the rest of the day.
wtf you're supposed to be proving op wrong, not proving him right
OP isn't wrong though?
He's got a point, but the downside of his theory is just that he won't be able to build strength.
You will still build muscle and endurance.
It is just conditioning at this point.
Not that this is a bad thing.
You may even be able to build some solid endurance with that.
But you will not go very far strength wise, you still need overload.
0pl8 = 0 weight
0pl8 x 45 reps = 0kg
0pl8 x 165 reps = 0kg
QED
A standard olympics bar weighs 45lb
I know you were just joking but I'm autistically angry because you missed quints.
Muscular adaptation to exercise is dependent on the form of training. High volume, low resistance training results in metabolic adaptation that improve myofibers’ ability to contract repeatedly, which doesn’t result in hypertrophy. Higher resistance training increases the amount of myofibrils in the myofibers, increasing their size and contractility resulting in hypertrophy.
what about the gigareps
Enjoy your cardio and zero gains.
The classic volume formula only works below a certain number of reps. Realistically, once you start going past 15 reps (or about a minute under tension), you're not breaking down muscle tissue efficiently anymore.