Hey Guys,
How do you know if you have the body type for the intensity of low rep training (1-3 reps)?
Not sure what you’re getting at, anyone attempting to get strong should incorperate triples, doubles and singles at one time or another, this of course would depend on various things.
Typical suggestions might be to start at higher rep brackets than as your training time increases to gradually progress to lower reps if thats what your body responds to best. Of course, if your a strength seeker (raises hand), then most of the time should be spent IMHO in the lower rep range bracket. Their is a time and place for everything though including high rep work, but if your thing is strength than you should put your effort and ambitions towards that the majority of the time.
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
Hey Guys,
How do you know if you have the body type for the intensity of low rep training (1-3 reps)?[/quote]
Handling and working with intensity is a mental thing and has NOTHING to do with Body Type. Never will.
I heard about low reps being tougher on the joints for some people. Also, that (in the bench for example) the rotator cuff muscles and stabilizer muscles fatigue before the working muscles get fatigued. Thoughts?
Everyone has fast twitch muscle fibers and those can only be worked by lifting maximal weights or by moving the weight as fast as possible. Your fast twitch fibers have the most potential for growth but are the most neurological expensive to train. It is a mindset. EVERYONE should incorporate low rep training with maximum weight into their program.
I think what you’re trying to say is that if you have a larger frame (wrist/ankle/shoulder bones) this will be more stable under great loads, where as smaller framed individuals might not have the durability (so to speak) to handle heavy loads, all the time, for their whole lives.
That said, lift heavy.
[quote]gi2eg wrote:
I think what you’re trying to say is that if you have a larger frame (wrist/ankle/shoulder bones) this will be more stable under great loads, where as smaller framed individuals might not have the durability (so to speak) to handle heavy loads, all the time, for their whole lives.
That said, lift heavy.[/quote]
That is exactly what I was getting at. Do you guys feel there is any merit to that?
Maybe it is important to say that there should be some experience, not training over years, but a good basement. During the building of the basement you train the stabilizer, rotator cuff etc. and that`s make you ready for heavy weights. Then i think it is no body type thing.
But i think it is no good idea to start training in a low rep range and i think you guys will agree to this.
But this is only theoretical because i don`t know how long you work out and how much experience do you have.
Low reps are good, if you can count past three while you’re lifting you arent pushing hard enough. Lol maybe I am just stupid but I have to do a talley in the dirt to count my speed sets, or I will lose count around 4-5, im not sure exactly, if I knew I wouldnt be losing count.