Sentences with phrase «low rep»

If I, for example, do pullups on mondays and get stuck on close grip pullups, not being able to add more reps, I may throw in a set of very high rep australian pullups on wednesday or a few sets of low rep very wide grip pullups on friday while still feeling fresh after my squats.

Very heavy weight low rep training for max strength — This type of training was the first 30 minutes of each workout during the low carb phase and included mostly heavy deadlifts, barbell squats, weighted pullups, and bench press.

And would you recommend low rep range for abs too?

Side note: One of the purposes of the super heavy, low rep weight training during the low - carb, high fat phase is that both of these aspects (the heavy training and the high fat intake) help to maximize healthy testosterone levels... which is obviously good for both maintaining muscle and losing body fat, among other benefits.

Weight train in the low rep ranges.

Low rep strength training?

My technique involves combining a heavy squat or deadlift (in a very heavy weight and low rep range) with a single - joint exercise for the biceps or triceps (in a higher - rep «pump» style fashion).

then i tried it five years ago, after decades of struggling with low rep programs, and i'm 50 pounds heavier now.

I've done 5 × 5's, low rep high weight programs, super sets, low weights and high reps... and this program is my favorite so far.

This way you maximize the amount of weight used during the low rep set and pre-exhaust the slow twitch fibers for the coming high rep sets.

Also since slow twich fibres are somewhat little exhausted after heavy low rep sets wont performing high rep sets after heavy sets be more time effective to exhaust slow twich fibres instead of starting the workout itself with high rep sets?

Neither my mind nor my muscles liked a low rep range 2nd set.

Personally I have trained using low rep, medium rep and high rep protocols.

My pump is also off the roof i have never been pumped like this before, doing low rep with heavy weights.

I've been lifting for YEARS at low rep high weight and I knew I wasn't getting the gains that I deserved for the time put in at the gym.

Also what about a method such as clustering using a heavy weight to complete multiple low rep sets in quick succession?

Along with whatever other lifts and training you're doing, the first two 3 - week cycles could look something like this, using our guideline of a «high rep, low rep and assistance exercise» weekly template:

Even the website owner in his implementation suggests swapping out low rep sets for the high rep sets in a current program.

You also get fast twitch hypertrophy by way of total anabolic effect, which is why you still gain strength even if all you do is high reps.. It doesn't work out that way if you train low rep; you just get strength gains with minimal hypertrophy.

I suggest doing high rep sets after low rep sets.

i know from my own experience, from my doctors, and from observing other veteran lifters that the conventional, low rep training methods are detrimental to health past a certain training age.

Just keep in mind this is a pretty hardcore method; don't expect it to be as easy as low rep methods if you decide to do a multiple set routine.

From my teens up to the age of 44 I predominantly followed the typical 3 sets of 6 — 10 approach or variations thereof, including low rep / high weight sets.

Why does the addition of high rep training — training that has been conventionally viewed as endurance training — to a traditional low rep program produce greater gains in strength than a low rep program only?

The low rep group performed 3 sets x 6 - 8 reps maximum, the medium rep group performed 2 sets x 30 - 40 reps maximum, and the high rep group performed 1 set x 100 - 150 rep maximum.

I Read many years ago in works of research that different parts of a muscle cell responds to different stimulus to varying degrees so I have always included high rep, low rep, explosive movements, etc..

And all 3 rep ranges resulted in increases in endurance, with the exception of the relative endurance of the low rep group.

David and Corey you guys get a baseline and follow a low rep protocol.

I include low rep, explosive movements, but I have also included very high reps in my training, sometimes up to 60 rep sets.

Is training to volitional fatigue maybe the key why in the study that is mentioned in the article, 36 reps using 15.5 % 1RM produced much less muscle size than the low rep training?

I have also tried the low rep heavy weight and got nothing more than injuries and fatigue..

While I'd like to see more research on this topic this data is enticing enough that I strongly recommend giving a combination of low rep / high rep training serious consideration.

The heavy weight / low rep group decreased in relative endurance while the other two groups increased relative endurance significantly.

if your powerllifting i guess do it but even then you got ta periodize i fucked myself up a lot from heavy low rep style..

I do believe the *** High - reps really forces you to get the biggest pump from your lagging muscles, where on a low rep / high weight routine, It's very easy to compensate your lagging muscle groups with over trained muscle groups resulting in muscle imbalance.

The best way to use light weight / high reps is to add them to a program of heavy weights / low reps. Adding light weights / high reps to a heavy weight / low rep program will produce greater increases in size and strength than a program consisting of only heavy weights / low reps.

This is accomplished by pairing low rep exercises which involve torso flexion with planking movements to increase time under tension.

The low rep group improved strength more than the other 2 groups and the high rep group improved endurance more than the lower rep groups.

Work out Day Three (low rep), 2 or 3 sets of 4 - 6 heavier pulls with slow negative eccentric pulls.

Even though the primary goal of endurance athletes is to improve endurance, heavy weight / low rep strength training is what is most often recommended to them.

Would be interesting to see a converse study to this to see what endurance gains can be made with low rep, high weight training

Im not running a vry low rep protocol, I've been going the lowest 8 reps.

it also seems that for me, more high weight low rep training would be preferential as it produces more contractile based muscle fibers or myofibriol and would increase strength moreso then size.

In 2004 a group of researchers tackled this very question in a fascinating study of varying combinations of high and low rep training (8).

Workout Day One (low rep), 3 sets of 2 - 3 pull ups using bands on a bar.

My personal bias is that high rep strength training is not a replacement for traditional heavy weight / low rep training — I think high rep training should be combined with traditional heavy weight / low rep as a way to improve results versus doing just heavy weights / low reps by themselves (as most programs prescribe).

demonstrated that with proper volume protocols, high rep and low rep groups gain muscle at the same rate in their first 3 months of training, which renders the findings of this study irrelevant.

From a lot of the various research I've read, one of the best methods to increase T is to do at least some portion of your training in very low rep ranges and very heavy weight.

Early morning workout - light weight, high rep exercises with little to no rest 30 - 40 minutes Night workout - 15 min cardio, high weight, low rep exercises with adequate rest between exercises, 30 to 40 minutes.

This leads many to start strapping on increasingly heavier weights and doing low rep sets.