Warm up, reps and sets - Page 5 - UK-Muscle Body Building Community

**big** · 10-03-2005, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny

1 more question,

last monday i did bench press, this monday i did it again but upped the weight slightly and could hardly push my final (main) set out,

should i be sticking to a certain weight until i can push (say 10-12 reps) on my main set then up the weight, do that weight until again i can push 10-12 reps out and up again.

or should i be upping my weight everyweek and i will just get stronger???

If your routine is right, during a loading phase, you should be adding small amounts of weight each week and getting the same number of reps each time. It's easier to add small weight than it is to do an extra rep in most cases.

If you've upped the weight by a tiny amount and can't get the same number of reps, then it's highly likely that you've overtraining, undereating or both.

winger · 10-03-2005, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by big

If your routine is right, during a loading phase, you should be adding small amounts of weight each week and getting the same number of reps each time. It's easier to add small weight than it is to do an extra rep in most cases.

If you've upped the weight by a tiny amount and can't get the same number of reps, then it's highly likely that you've overtraining, undereating or both.

Spot on!

Danny · 10-03-2005, 03:45 PM

we can only go up in 3kg at a time, is this to much. thats the smallest weight at our gym

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Danny Newbie Trainer Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 97	we can only go up in 3kg at a time, is this to much. thats the smallest weight at our gym