Is how heavy you lift important for purely body building or are higher reps (8-12) better as Kong as you progressively over load. Could you still have a noce physique lifting “bitch weight”?
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Easton Young
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Henry Phillips
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Connor Carter
>Could you still have a noce physique lifting “bitch weight”?
No
But you could be ottermode
Jeremiah Rivera
>bitch weight
>makes you stronger
>makes you bigger
I don't think you can make it if this makes sense to you...
William Williams
A guy who can bench 4pl8 1rm can bench more for 10rm than a guy who benches 1.5pl8 10rm
Lifting more weight will induce better hypertrophy, and training strength leads to moving more weight
Brody Morales
Thanks for a legit answer brah
Dylan Powell
>tfw back injury prevents me from loading up much weight
I'm pretty much stuck at like 100 lb dead lifts and squats
how fucked am i for gains?
Hudson Walker
eh you'll be fine. never gonna have massive quads, but who cares. also should prob just avoid deads altogether if you have a back injury. continue squatting and calf raises just to prevent your body becoming too disproportionate
Jaxson Nelson
yeah, leg day i do squats with 60 lbs very slowly, calf raises with the same 60 lbs, then i do sliding leg curls with no weight, then i do ab stuff. I finish it off with sitting down, leaning back, and tossing up a 10 lb medicine ball for my back.
I was recently looking into deadlifts as a way to help strengthen my glutes, which would help prevent me from damaging my back further / reduce pain.
Gabriel Wilson
Should I only lift heavy while losing weight? Or do both?
Eli Hughes
As a natural there is no such thing as low weight high reps, you Max out your weight on everything and pick a decent reps/sets limit (like 5x5) and when you can comfortably do that you go up in weight and start over again
Brody Wright
Yes you lift heavy even when cutting or doing anything, most people stall on their lifts when cutting but you shouldn't lose a huge amount of strength
Easton Robinson
Well I'm a fat cunt and I have back hernia so I'm trying to be careful about everything. Doing high reps is useless then?
Cooper Morris
If you can do them without further aggravating your back than keep it up. Work on your hamstring/calf flexibility to help keep your form tight when deadlifting/squatting
Liam Jones
Just load the heaviest you can handle until you get used
James Watson
volume is volume
time under tension is time under tension
your muscle doesnt know how to count.
You can generate metabolic stress with 3x5, 5x5, 4x12, whatever
Gavin Cruz
Israetel says you're wrong. Strength is a product of skeletal muscle hypertrophy and neurological efficiency. Strength training in the low rep ranges is great for neurotical adaptation and power, but does a worse job of promoting hypertrophy when compared to higher volume training.
If you build muscle, you get stronger. Not the other way around. And if the goal is size first and foremost, strength training is not the optimal approach. You should body build.
Connor Green
It's not that bigger weight = better hypertrophy, but rather that reps + weight = better hypertrophy, and being able to lift more satisfies that part of the equation, and I guarantee 315x10 is better than 225x10
I understand the need for bodybuilding training, but if you just bodybuild without making any strength gains, you'll be stuck at babyweight forever -- nobody got big lifting 1pl8
Gabriel Robinson
This is incorrect. There is such a thing as diminishing returns
Nolan Lewis
Bodybuilding =/= no strength gain. You get stronger by bodybuilding, too, if not at quickly.
I understand you, because I used to think that way. You are (and I was) wrong. Your idea is to rush strength gains so that you can start "productively" lifting for hypertrophy at higher weights. Israetel says that's the wrong approach and you're leaving hypertrophy gains on the table by doing that. Your muscles don't know how much weight is on the bar, they only know the intensity of your effort. People who can lift a ton of weight have *a more difficult* time growing muscle, because they require such a huge amount of training stimulus to achieve the requisite intensity.
You have it backwards. "If you want muscle, get strong" is the wrong view. "If you want muscle, lift in a way that grows your muscles, and you'll become stronger as a biproduct" is the right view.
>Reps + weight = better hypertrophy
No. The correct formula is
>Intensity + volume = hypertrophy
The weight on the bar is incidental. 315x10 is inferior to 135x10 for hypertrophy IF the 315 lifter achieves a lower intensity than the 135 lifter.
Sebastian Rogers
And here, I'll put it to you this way: how many powerlifters look like bodybuilders? Plenty of super strong fatties, plenty of super strong dyels, but how many large, cut, aesthetic powerlifters? It's a truism, "getting strong" isn't enough to make you ripped. If you want to look like a bodybuilder, train like one.
Zachary Ramirez
Carson Butler
so lets hop on brosplit?