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This is Great!!!

mmhasty Posts: 6 Joined: 2002/10/05	2004/02/10, 06:46 PM I have been on my exercise plan for 1 week now. I find myself looking forward to every workout. I love the feeling you get after you have just squeezed out your final rep and the blood goes rushing to your exhausted muscles. It makes me feel so powerful. I wish it would last. My question is this: Should you go to failure on each set or on the final set in the exercise. Also, should I try to up the weight gradually each week, or every couple of weeks. I don't want my love of lifting to cause me to overtrain.
rpacheco Posts: 3,770 Joined: 2001/12/13	2004/02/10, 06:56 PM Hard to answer these questions not knowing your fitness level. However, my best advice would be to listen to your body. When I was a beginner, I thought that going to failure every time would spur growth. That was not true. I now go to failure only on certain workouts and not every time. If your goal is to gain mass, then yes you will have to increase weights as you progress. You can strive for a weekly increase as you are able, but you'll come across plateaus...very natural. Follow your FT workout and strive to complete the stated # of reps. and you'll be fine. Good luck! -------------- **_Robert_** Pain is temporary; glory is forever!