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Title: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Rami on August 28, 2013, 08:57:12 AM

For upper body. Is it 8 and then on should lower the weight so that one does not do fewer reps? (except on last reps where one do maybe fewer)

Is it 8?

need answer, working out right now.

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Raymondo on August 28, 2013, 08:58:22 AM

56

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Rami on August 28, 2013, 09:02:09 AM

Quote from: Raymondo on August 28, 2013, 08:58:22 AM

56

I cant!

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Raymondo on August 28, 2013, 09:02:39 AM

Quote from: Rami on August 28, 2013, 09:02:09 AM

I cant!

Put the weights down and leave.

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Rami on August 28, 2013, 09:14:44 AM

I don't do only one rep.

I only got 20 more reps to go now, I think I have to split it on 3 sets. So I might do more than 100. the final once are usually hardest.

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Rami on August 28, 2013, 09:22:09 AM

fuck the last damn rep *I got stuck just before locking out... why does this almost happen always?

How do I remedy this problem?

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: anabolichalo on August 28, 2013, 09:26:22 AM

the other day at the gym i had an epiphany about big weights and bbers etc


i realized that the difference between the chumps and the champs is



the champs never go even near their max, almost always nearly 90lbs below their max weight

why?

simple, they just go by feel "oh this feels light, add another plate each side, oh another one maybe, yeah this feels good, i'm gonna rep this one 12-15 times"


and the chumps  want to kill themselves with a couple of shitty ego reps just so they can add a plate, they are looking at the plate backwards


they seem to forget they are only a means to an end and not the end in itself


strength is dictated by genetic drug response combination in bodybuilding, if not you are training like a powerlifter

Title: Re: What is the lowest amount of reps one should ever do before lowering the weight?
Post by: Viking11 on August 28, 2013, 10:17:01 AM

1.   The lowest you can do. Should you? Sometimes. Rest pause uses single near max weights.  8 is an arbitrary number. Meaningless.