Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, 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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Sets and Reps

Westwind
Westwind
Posts: 1
Joined: 2002/11/24
United States
2002/11/25, 12:33 PM
HI,,,,I am a basketball player and i am kinda new to all this like sets and reps and stuff ...this maybe a dumb question but usually all I do is practice and stretch for so long...On my thing where I am sposed to put how many reps i did why are there 4 empty blocks that need to be filled in and do i need to do enough to fill them all up or just one?? thanks for tolerating my ignorance ;)...but I really wanna git into better shape...there is no weight training in my basketball routine and I can't seem to lose the extra weight and i am really gonna do it this time if i can ever figure this out....Thanks again...Jeana
neptune_
neptune_
Posts: 38
Joined: 2002/11/22
Canada
2002/11/25, 12:39 PM
The 4 empty blocks are probably for 4 sets. There will be target reps listed beside the exercise for each set.

So for example, you're doing bicep curls and you have to do 4 sets, with 10 reps each. What that means is you curl the weights 10 times in the full range of motion without resting - that is 1 set. Now you rest for a bit (maybe 30s-60s) and do set #2, and so on, until you finish all 4 sets.

Hope that is somewhat clear?