I know that during your DE day that you should do a maximal amount of reps with a set amount of weight. Example: Bench press with 135 lbs for 35 reps. My question is, at what point do you move up in weight, or what range of reps should you be working in? Thanks.
MO
well, if you are doing 135 very fast, and you try 145 and its very fast, and you try 150 and its slower, then you should be doing 145’s…
when my bench would go up, my speed bench would go up, so i would adjust the speed accordingly by testing little increments of weight… once your speed slows, you should be doing slightly less than that so it is still fast
just keep testing it
peace
That’s a good question. For me, I try to gauge it by how strong I am on my last set. With a 60 second break between sets, you don’t want to choose a weight that seems easy enough for the first set, but will feel too heavy for the 2nd and 3rd sets.
Although my reps go down each set, if there is too big a drop in the # of reps from the 1st to 3rd set, then I’ll keep the weight the same for the next week; otherwise, I’ll up the weight 5-10 lbs the next week.
I hope you are enjoying the program.
-Djwlfpack
Yeah, I am really enjoying it so far. I also have my two sons on it, also, ages 19 and 15. So as to the rep range, what would you say then, anything between 20 and maybe 40 reps? I know it’s not feasible to do 132 reps with weight, so I am thinking that if you get to the point where you can do 40 reps, that maybe some weight should be added. What do you think?