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Old 06-27-2005, 03:32 PM
Darkhorse Darkhorse is offline
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Here's what I know for a fact...IMO of course...Through trial and error.

I find it way more productive to stick with the same rep range and weight for each workout. This is so you can keep track of the weight you use and try to increase it every workout. I found that when I grow muscle, it's because I increased the weights used from workout to workout. (mechanical overload.) For instance, when everyone first starts lifting, they make the biggest mass increases in their lives. Why is that? Because they also made the biggest strength increases too. There's two kinds of people at my gym. There's those that lift the same weights the same way with the same reps day in day out. (example: flat bench-185x12, 205x8, 215x6, 215x6, 225x4 every single workout) Those are the ones that stay the exact same size. The other half in the gym slowly increase their weights used and alternate between rep ranges every few weeks. (periodization) They get bigger and bigger. So, yes I think you're doing too much. Try lowering the volume, keeping the rep ranges the same (2-3 weeks 4-6, 2 weeks 6-8, 2 weeks 8-10, ect. then take a week off and start over again.)

70% is diet
20% is lifting weights/recovery days
10% is mental
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