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How to superset effectively?
I am just starting to incorporate some dumbbell exercises in my workout. I try to reduce pauses between exercises to get more stuff done in the same time and spend less time waiting.
At the moment I ...
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How many sets and reps should I do as a beginner?
About a year ago, I asked a question looking for a list of beginner dumbbell exercises. A user suggested this helpful website, which I promptly bookmarked. Having procrastinated for the past 10 months ...
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Why are strength programs made the way they are - much of the same, regular intervals, same program for a long time
The strength training programs I have seen typically have:
Few exercises
Many sets of each
Do the same program for a few months then change - Usually for example on kind of pull-down replaced with a ...
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Varying Rep Ranges During a Workout
My question is...Is my work out routine useful for mass or is it completely wrong?
For quite a while, I followed a routine where I would start with 3 or 4 sets of a tough excercise and heavy weights ...
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Should rep range be determined by muscle fiber composition?
There are many people, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hodge Twins, who say that endurance and stabilizer muscles should be worked out at high rep ranges (16+) for optimal hypertrophy. Their ...
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What is the difference betweeen 9 and 10 reps? - - - - - - (If you can do 10)
Say you can do 10 pushups. Supposedly you should go close to failure to have a good training effect.
But if you look on the muscles; the point is to break them down, to rebuild them stronger. And 9 ...
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Any benefits to doing really low or really high number of reps per set?
The lowest I have gone is 6 reps per set for heavier weights and up to 20 reps for lighter weights. I will often do a high number of sets when I use the pyramid method, ranging from 8 to 20 reps ...
