Group: Beginners to Exercise

Beginners to Exercise
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 969, Messages: 18927

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How much weight to start?

plbab
plbab
Posts: 3
Joined: 2002/01/03
United States
2002/01/07, 12:36 AM
Just starting lifting Monday 1/7/02 got schedule from this site. Still not sure what weight to start with or how to figure. Any ideas?
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2002/01/07, 02:43 AM
It has to be hard to do the last couple of repetitions, so you try to find the right weight. If it's too light you'll not get any gains.
rpacheco
rpacheco
Posts: 3,770
Joined: 2001/12/13
United States
2002/01/07, 10:53 AM
Be careful not to go too heavy...you might risk getting injured. Always start with light weights and gradually increasing until the number of reps. decrease.

Good luck.
Ironbod
Ironbod
Posts: 71
Joined: 2002/01/18
United States
2002/01/18, 08:24 PM
You really just have to try using different weights until you find how strong you are and go from there.
bodyforlifemom
bodyforlifemom
Posts: 6
Joined: 2002/01/30
United States
2002/02/01, 12:13 PM
Here is a link that might be of some help its more geared for the BFL program, but it may help. I also have a buch of links on my webpage

http://members.tripod.com/bflbob/id23.htm

http://www.geocities.com/bodyforlifemom/resources.html

Good Luck!

Laura