Good form, or heavy weight

[xfile384]

I know in order to continually build muscle you need to progressively add more weight to the exercises you perform. Yet when I move up in weight, at times my form suffers slightly in order to move the weight.

Also though, sometimes when my form is as good as it can be, it often limits the amount of weight I can use.

Is it okay to allow a LITTLE bit of loose form in order to move more weight or should you only perform exercises with perfect form and move up in weight more slowly?

Also, should i perform my bench press like this? YouTube - Bench Press Correctly To Build Pecs & Chest Muscle

Or, does it really not matter? Or, should it just be a smooth motion the whole time?

 

[Ngordyn]

form is key, your max is only as good , when the form is perfect after that its cheating and not a true lift in my opinion you will get better results from proper form and again thats just my opinion

and i cant watch the video net to slow

 

[Merkaba]

vid looks good to me.

If youre losing form, youre simply more prone to injure yourself and/or/because youre using other muscles to help you move the weight. Thus losing effectiveness of the lift anyways. To me bad form is lost time. Losing form just because something is heavy is no excuse. Either don't go that heavy or get a spotter.

 

[fitmax]

everything they said above.

form is key, otherwise you end up not actually working out the muscle groups your trying to. Plus like above bad form can lead to injury.

Just to throw an example out, guys will do straight bar curls, they will throw tons of weight on, that they can do 2 or 3 reps with and then they get sloppy and start using their back. We've all seen it the guy leans back and then hes practically rolling the weight up his body.

In the end, it doesn't ever fully work out the muscle group you were aiming for and you just cheat yourself, especially it certain lifts where the chances of injury when using bad form can increase.

 

[Skib]

if adding more weight is compromising your form then try adding more reps until you reach the top of your rep range THEN try adding more weight and starting back at the beginning of your rep range...

 

[natural^]

Your goal should be Good form WITH heavy weight, without compromising either.