Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 379, Messages: 54578

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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gelson17
gelson17
Posts: 31
Joined: 2001/09/16
United Kingdom
2001/10/15, 12:17 PM
iv heard the key to putting on muscle is to make your weights heavier throughout my program around how much weight do you think i should add on and how often do you think i should add it or how much weight does anyone else add on.
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Arnold
Arnold
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Joined: 2000/11/27
Canada
2001/10/15, 01:27 PM
gelson17.. it is quite simple.

First you have your target reps for each set in a specific exercise: such as 10,8,6,4. You must use a weight which you can only perform aprox. 10 repetitions on your first set. This means that if you are able to do 12..13 or more reps you need to ad weight - understand? Then for the next set which has 8 repetitions in my example, you would obviously have to use a heavier weight to fail at aprox. 8 reps.

And yes.. you do need to keep increasing your weights with correct form to put on muscle.. more strength = more muscle.

.o0 Arnold 0o.
gelson17
gelson17
Posts: 31
Joined: 2001/09/16
United Kingdom
2001/10/16, 11:58 AM
thanks a lot mate il try it!!!
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ken30307
ken30307
Posts: 51
Joined: 2001/10/16
United States
2001/10/18, 07:54 AM
but not too much at once...I go up by the smallest ammount that I can...