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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How much weight to use?

amyismynamey
amyismynamey
Posts: 2
Joined: 2004/02/06
United States
2004/02/09, 10:02 AM
I'm not new to weightlifting, but I am new to this site and fitness program. I could not find anything on this site that says whether to increase your rep with each set, decrease it or keep it the same. I am used to increasing the weight with each set. If anyone knows, please help! Some of the reps/sets are strange to me. For example, my calf workout this morning consisted of 4 sets of 20,16,16,16 reps. Increase the weight with each set? If so, the reps just don't make sense to me.
azredhead57
azredhead57
Posts: 1,651
Joined: 2003/04/11
United States
2004/02/09, 01:26 PM
I think it depends on what program you signed up for. Gains or loss. Building muscle or just 'toning'. For any kind of muscle growth you need to add weight and lift as heavy as you can. For fat loss that is still a good idea, but some programs have you going higher reps with the same weight. That is what those reps sound like.

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