gh15, what do you think of DC training, which advocates progressively heavier weights?
not femiliar much with his training but any training that progressively increase the weights and load will grow you,,
my point is you dont go up in weight load if you cant lift it with at the least decent form,,you will simply be stuck in place,,
nnothing wrong with 6-10 reps,,i like this range especially for upper body,,but you better do them with decent form,,its not enough to do half ass movement and not feel tension and muscle work,,any one can do it,,infact some guys bones and tendoins are so strong they lift heavy weights with not much muscle on their frame,,
the lifters who do cheat movements do it at specific points of training,,any one of them can come fresh in the gym and do this exercise first thing and do it with close to perfect form,,be sure of that,,its only the timing they do it that make it cheating movment,,they are already tired and been though couple sets and couple exercises when they go into the cheating movements
the basic principle is to feel the muscle working,, i dont care how you get there,,but there is no need to climb up to 50lb if you didnt feel your muscle working with 40lb