Sentences with phrase «lower end of the rep»

When you pile on the pounds, you usually lift on the lower end of reps — between 4 and 6 reps a set.

As you would suspect, the lower end of that rep range applies to heavier weights and the higher end to lighter weights.

You can do rest - pause reps to increase the intensity and speed up your progression in reps, but you got ta hit that lower end of your rep range first.

One method that I am fond of is to start at the lower end of the rep range, then spend several weeks building up to the top end, before adding weight.

«With sold form if you are barely able to get to the lower end of the rep range when you hit close to full, or full muscle failure, then lower your weight,» Booker says.

Not exact matches

No weights or very low weights are on tap but doing 3 sets of 10 reps is providing a lot of mental clarity for me after obliterating my upper body for weeks on end.

If you're a female and want some extra glute work, do 2 - 3 sets of 8 - 10 reps of Glute Bridges or Hip Thrust at the end of each lower body session.

This is especially true when you enjoy strength training workouts; the reps here will be at the lower end of the scale from 1 - 6.

The optimal time for using irradiation is when doing low - rep heavy work in order to lift a bigger weight or at the end of a long set to do a few extra reps.

Touching the floor at the end of the rep gives your lower back rest between reps and allows you to set it neutral again before beginning your next rep.. That way, you're less likely to round your lower back and squeeze your spinal discs.

Also, I have lowered the resistance on the high - rep set even more, and I've found that I can even do 60 - 70 rep sets and end them on «true» concentric failure (which means that I really can not lift the resistance another time, and it's not just lack of pain tolerance or boredom compelling me to finsih the set).

Toward the end of a 5 - 6 week hypertrophy phase, for example, you'll really look forward to being able to lower your reps and put some real weight on the bar.

Lower end of twenty reps and I was sucking wind.

Squat to parallel or do a full squat and do 3 sets of 12 reps with 30 - 60 seconds rest in between each set (lower end if using bodyweight, higher end if using weight).

If you're lifting lighter weights, opt for the higher end of the rep range and if you're going heavy, stick to lower numbers.

You'd perform, 6 to 8 total 1.5 reps.. Then you continue the set by performing mechanical partials for another 5 to 8 reps that focus on the top end of the range of motion where you only lower the weight about one third of the way down.

My deduction from that (which is purely based on my observation and experience) is that I tend to keep total training volume at the lower end of the spectrum around 15 — 30 total reps per session.

Training volume (sets and reps) will be highest in week 1, and lowest at the end of the program in week 4.

In my never ending search for knowledge it did not take me long to discover that this common mantra of, low reps for mass and high reps for cuts, was just plain wrong.

But at the end of the day both cross fit and body building take allot of commitment at elite level high reps or low reps slow or fast it can hurt just as much dead lifting 400 lb for 6 reps or 200 lb for 20 reps body builder / cross fit not for the weak and yet neither ideal for long life fitness.

Pharma reps are seen as the lower end of the sales by the rest of the medical sales community — both because science backgrounds are often lacking and because the sales process lacks the «closing» requirements of other areas.