Group: New Members Greet & Meet - Introduce yourself

New Members Greet & Meet - Introduce yourself
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reps and weight

AlexK
AlexK
Posts: 6
Joined: 2003/06/22
United Kingdom
2003/06/30, 02:52 PM
With exercises where you alternate limbs in one set (e.g. standing dumbbell curls, lying dumbbell curls etc.) and the FT routine says, say 10 reps, do you do 10 reps on each arm or (20 in total) or 5 reps on each arm to make 10 reps in total?
Sorry for the long sentence, hope it makes sense. Here's the next questions:
I am strongly in favour going heavy (after the warm up set) then working down. So for example my routine says standing dumbbell curls 3sets (12, 10 and 8 reps). Could I start with 8 reps @ maximum weight, then 10 reps, then 12 ?

Appreciate any help

Alex
AlexK
AlexK
Posts: 6
Joined: 2003/06/22
United Kingdom
2003/06/30, 05:55 PM
Thanks for that.

Also I was just looking over my routine and found quite a few exercises (such as presses) with up to 20 reps. It is generally accepted that for most exercises lower reps (6 - 10) with heavier weights are better for gaining muscle mass. So why is my FT routine saying I should do 20 for things like bench pressing?

As always, any help appreciated.

alex