This guy was telling me last time at the gym that rather than do an exercise at weight x with y repitions, I should start off with low weights and high repetitions, and each set increase the weight and do less reps, until you get to a wieght on which can only do a couple of reps.
I'm curious about this, perhaps some of you could tell me what it's all about. What I really want is not to bulk up but just for the muscles to grow a little larger and get better defined - should I be using this sort of system?
Also, what exercises does it apply to? Anything and everything? Or is only worth doing it on some exercises?
The exercises I do are as follows (sorry I dont know all the exact names):
Chest: bench(flat), incline, decline.
Shoulder: pull-opens with dumbells, pull-ups with bar, shoulder press.
Back: lateral pulldown (hands close facing me), lateral pulldown (hands wide apart, facing machine), long pull
Biceps: alternating dumbell curls, barbell curls, half curls with dumbells
Triceps: tricep press, (holding dumbell above head and bending downwards)
I'm not expecting you guys to comment on/adjust my routine, just to tell me with which of the exercises I ought to use wieght/rep pyramids.
Thanks!
Posted by: The_Chicken_Daddy
I prefer to warm up and then kick into my heaviest weights.
If i wanna do higher reps i'll do them after my lower rep sets, that way i'll be fresher, if you like, for my heavier sets and more likely to progress from last week's workout.
Which, until you're pushing some seriously fucking heavy weights, or until you've been training for a good amount of years, is all that really matters.
Posted by: Prince
as your thread title reads "pyramids", they have been around forever, they're okay, I use them once in awhile.
