Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Workout Question

georgeg
georgeg
Posts: 7
Joined: 2004/01/30
United States
2004/03/06, 09:45 PM
Ive noticed that after a couple of sets of lifting my arms become very tired(almost unable to lift the next set for next exercise). Im not overtraining because i lift every other day 3x a week. Diet is fine. But if i go down in weightit seems it is too easy. I want to increase the weight but the next set or exercise is almost exhausting. But if I wait 10 min i can easily do the number of sets. Any suggestions.
agamble
agamble
Posts: 1,029
Joined: 2003/09/22
United States
2004/03/06, 10:57 PM
Do your first set fairly light (warm-up). Set #2 add some (not to heavy) to get the feel of a heavier weight. The next set get heavy. Last set load em up. The idea is to warm up (12-15 reps), acclimate (10-12 reps), work (2 sets 6-8 reps). Up in weight, down in reps. Also vary your rest between sets from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Of course these are just examples but hopefully it helps. Good Luck