thorprime

hello all

I have recently started joining a gym (I am 29 btw, and have been going for a few weeks now) and so wanting to improve my overall strength and muscle gain. (sadly for me many eyars ago I suffered with pnumonia and it totally weakened my chest)

I like to ask people who regularly train perhaps to gimme some pointers, I am on a 3 day split program but as far as reps go, I think this is where everyone is different.

I do beleive however the common is 8-12 reps 3 sets

Now is there anythign wrong in doin somethign as follows

1st set warm up with light or half weight

2nd set use max weight

3rd set use max weight or increase weight to failure?

Also, when is best to add weight, each week, each second week, after successfully doing 1 rep with the max weight used?

You can imagine what pnumonia did to me as I also suffered with bad asthma so I am mainly concerned now into building my chest strength (improve bench press)

Appreciate any help you can give me?

There are so many various methods of training and with reps so I am open to suggestion...

P-funk

If I were just starting back in the gym like this, especially after being sick with something like pnumonia, I would do 3 full body workouts per week and focus on keeping my reps in the 10-15 rep range for right now to build back muscle endurance, promote joint strength and stability before pushing heavier weight and to get back to an overall good level of conditioning. Proabably wouldn't even work to failure at this point either.

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thorprime

this happen many years ago with the pnumonia........soI obviuosly gvae myself more than sufficent time to heal naturally.......but yeah something like pnumonia it can totally stuff you up big time