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Originally Posted by Eric3237
You only have dumbells so that means you only have a certain amount of weight. And yet you are practising continuous overload. So you squeeze out 12 instead of 10. Then what? Add a set? Where does it stop? 20 sets of 12? And when that doesn't work you change the exercise since your muscles must be bored and so you have to shock them. And then they say, wow, I'm really excited now at this change of pace, I think I shall grow. Whatever floats your boat.
If you ask a question based on an assumption with the purpose of having everyone back up what you already believe...why bother? Tell you what, why don't you use the limited weight at your disposal and keep thinking up ways to shock your muscles with it for a couple of years and then come back on and tell us how that's working for you. BTW, try bad language and racy jokes in case your muscles are prudish.
The key to ANY type of adaptive process in the body is progression. You have to introduce a stimulus that is greater than the stimulus before. At the same time it has to be similar enough to force your body to adapt in a SPECIFIC way. The body doesn't adapt to random inputs. If fact the body has NO NEED to adapt to random inputs.
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Hey dude, I wasn't asking for the dickhead comment, so bugger off. I'm only 15, I've still got a lot to learn, and am trying to learn and ask questions on here. Seems people like yourself don't care to help an amateur, but rather make fun of him for things he doesn't know about. Also why are you making an assumption that I have "limited weights at my disposal"? Never said anything about that, all I inquired was that I'm pushing myself to do 2 more reps than I regulairly do. And FYI, I
do have sufficient weights that allow me to practice proper #'s of reps/sets, not "20 sets of 12".
In response to your last paragraph: I have been practicing proper progression over the span in which I have been lifting, but I feel that I've not been looking any larger for months now...With the information I received about switching around workouts, I was having thoughts that this may be causing my "not getting larger" issue. Apparently not. I'll try you're suggestions for awhile, by not performing "random" rep sets, but doing the same reps all the time, and bumping up weight/rep amounts every so often and sticking with them for an amount of time, ie progression.
Thank you for your help, Eric3237, I beleive you have answered my question.