Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
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reps what are they?

severrin
severrin
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Joined: 2006/02/15
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2006/02/24, 03:26 AM
Ok for the beginners like my self, i wasn't able to find a thread on here about reps and such. so my question is what is a rep, and what is a set, are they the same? Or does a rep count as 1 time the weight is lifted or does it count as 10 or 12 times the weight is lifted?
yadmit
yadmit
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2006/02/24, 08:49 AM
Correct. A rep is lifting the weight once. A set is a grouping of reps. So, if you are required to do 3 sets of 10 reps of bicep curls, you do 10 bicep curls (that's one set) then do 10 more (second set) and 10 more (third set).

Hope that helps.

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