Of course....and so many people are doing it wrong.
Everytime you go to the gym its usually people doing 3 sets of 8-12 reps. They love this approach because they get home, look in the mirror and see their muscle pumped up with blood and it looks great. Then the pump goes away and they are left with minimal results
The truth is is that when you work your muscle for this amount of reps consistantly you are only stimulating small fibers. You have to lift about 4-6 reps with heavy weights to get big because this lower rep range tells your brain to trigger more motor units into play (your big fibers) in order to lift a weight that it hasnt before.
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Of course....and so many people are doing it wrong.
Everytime you go to the gym its usually people doing 3 sets of 8-12 reps. They love this approach because they get home, look in the mirror and see their muscle pumped up with blood and it looks great. Then the pump goes away and they are left with minimal results
The truth is is that when you work your muscle for this amount of reps consistantly you are only stimulating small fibers. You have to lift about 4-6 reps with heavy weights to get big because this lower rep range tells your brain to trigger more motor units into play (your big fibers) in order to lift a weight that it hasnt before.
.... That's a big word.I agree with this in fact if your gonna do only 8-12 reps just drop a little bit of the weight off and go for 18-20 reps and really drill your muscles
.... That's a big word.
First thing I would buy would be a bicycle to keep the metabolism up. And then a pull up bar / dip rack.
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