LPT: If you don't go to the gym you don't have to lift any weights
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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If you don’t go to the gym you don’t have to lift any weights
My body weight contradicts this. If I went to the gym regularly, I would probably have to lift less weight overall.
Has your overall strength increased?
I live by these words. The lightest weight of all!
Tbh this isn't really even that wrong. You shouldn't immediately go for the heavy stuff and burn yourself out
Depends on your goal. For muscle volume build up, it is better to go for heavy resistance, but it is heavy resistance for you, which can be quite light when you just started.
For muscle volume build up
I know what you mean, but now I'm imagining yelling muscles becoming progressively louder 😄
These are your muscles
Volume 25 [|||| ]
These are your muscles on weights
Volume 75 [|||||||||||| ]
Any questions?
Does it go to 111?
It'll go to over 9000!
Damn, 25-75/>9000 seems pretty damn weak..
Thank you for doing the correct number of |'s
I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I hadn't
Reps for building muscle strength are 3-6 per set, for volume 5-20. Either way of course to exhaustion. Which means that if you're training for volume you're going for the lighter weights, which makes sense as what increases with volume training is energy storage within the muscles, that is, it's a stamina thing, each set is supposed to drain the local stores completely without increasing overall cardio and rate of energy transfer from elsewhere to the muscles, prompting growth of that storage, while the strength sets go straight for maximum resistance.
That kind of thing is especially obvious when you see at what callisthenics folks tend to do. Can't do a pullup? Other people would switch to an easier variation than a full pullup, but they'll say "nah I want to train that exact movement, and its full range, and all the exact muscles involved, and I wanna get strong ASAP" and proceed to do sets of only negatives (i.e. jump up to the bar, then let yourself down as slowly as you can).
Good point. I guess in my answer I have not even considered to differentiate strength vs volume. Only volume and strength vs endurance. I myself would not even try weights that give me only 3 repetitions per set, because I am not an athlete and from my experience I will have problems with tendons (also, I am not that young)
While i agree instantly going for the big ones isn't sensible you do have to up it for gains
Oh absolutely no question there. There's a good middleground where you're pushing yourself but not putting yourself out of commission
afaik the general rule is that you want to be able to do about 8 reps and at the end you should be absolutely unable to do another rep (but you have to be careful to not hurt yourself, injury kills the gains)
also important is resting afterwards, you need to feel the delayed-onset muscle soreness or you ain't building jackshit muscle, and it's okay to do light exercise while feeling it but it's easier to injure yourself while the muscles are recovering so wait until it passes before you do another workout pass.
And if you lift the light ones enough the slightly heavier ones will begin to seem light as well!
100kg will always feel like 100kg, it just moves faster.
The punchline from this old comic sums it up quite well. Stamina is just as important as strength, its just harder to brag about without big printed weight numbers on the equipment.
