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11-04-2004, 04:40 PM
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| Making Progress Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: England Posts: 348 Rep Power:  |  Im my opinion your cramming alot into each session, if you have the time available try and spread it out and get some good focus on one or two groups at a time, then also you wont be so tired afterwards. Good luck ______________________ You can never have enough protein! |
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11-04-2004, 08:30 PM
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| Under Construction  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: THATCHAM, BERKSHIRE Posts: 21 Rep Power: | Absolutely right, could not agree more about learning correct form and motion first, Thats how I have been taught all those years back and I still think it is correct today AND yes Screw the watchers! They had to start somewhere. ______________________ I dont want excuses, I want results! |
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18-04-2004, 05:51 PM
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| Under Construction Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: chesterfield Posts: 16 Rep Power:   | you know when you do a 12, 10, 8, 6 reps do you use the same weight for each of the sets? what weight should you be using ive heard about 70% of your 1 rep max, is that true? Im hopeless in deciding which weight to put on each time i do an exercise, i think this is where im not gainig |
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18-04-2004, 06:03 PM
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| Making Progress Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Uk - North West Posts: 289 Rep Power: | Try a training journal, write down the weight your lifting and the next week try and beat it thats one way to make sure you keep gaining, with the 12 10 8 6 thing i tried training like that that once, didn't like it, i progressivly increased the weight, using the 12 reps as more of a warmup the 10 and 8 reps as two working sets and on the last one went to failure, if I ever got more reps than 6(on the last set) I would increase the weight next workout. Hope that helped ______________________ Benj |
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