Group: Experienced Exercise

Experienced Exercise
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 50, Messages: 19484

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Bahman
Bahman
Posts: 2
Joined: 2001/05/01
United States
2001/06/17, 01:57 PM
Hi,
I wanna ask an advice from you.In the gym we should use one weight for all of our excercises with dumbells?
In other words is there any problem that I use for example 22 pounds for dumbell curl and use 18 pounds for my triceps excercise?
Please answer my question clearly.It's very important for me!
Thank you again.
Regards,
Bahman
Tehran,Iran
Spedward
Spedward
Posts: 101
Joined: 2001/04/16
United States
2001/06/17, 03:00 PM
heck no.. different muscles are stronger than others
BillK
BillK
Posts: 361
Joined: 2000/12/26
United States
2001/06/17, 06:46 PM
Be sure to pyramid when lifting. Do not just use one weight for all sets. for instance when I do preacher curls I usually do something like this. set 15 - 20lbs. Set 12 - 30lbs. Set 10 - 50lbs Set 8 of 70 lbs. As you can see my last set is considered my working set. You should use the same fashion for exercises. Later you could pyramid up and pyramid back down which will really give you an intense workout.


~billk~
Amr_Mr.Olympia
Amr_Mr.Olympia
Posts: 195
Joined: 2001/04/03
Egypt
2001/06/17, 07:07 PM
It actually depends on your body proportions, If you have very strong biceps then you should use almost same wieghts, but usually triceps are stronger. But for other muscles!!! can you imagine someone doing barbell rows with the same wieght he uses in bench presses, for example. No!!
mongrel2012
mongrel2012
Posts: 125
Joined: 2001/05/04
Australia
2001/06/17, 07:48 PM
muscles have different proportional strength for different purposes. Imagine if we could bench as much as we could squat...
archan
archan
Posts: 135
Joined: 2001/04/14
India
2001/06/18, 03:18 AM
I do not think their is any problem.One cant have equal strength for all the parts of ur body.It seems that ur lifting power is more in ur biceps than ur triceps.But why do u keep the same weight?After doing around around 12 reps in the first set dont be afraid 2 increase the weight.If u want 2 add mass then give ur 2nd last set a max of 3-4 reps.The last set should be with the original weight and original number of reps.U will get a solid pump
bwa_22
bwa_22
Posts: 17
Joined: 2001/06/01
United States
2001/06/20, 01:34 PM
no it is not a problem