Increase weight/reduce reps

Red Cortina

Hi There,
Am new to this site and hoping to learn a lot from all the useful info here.

Hoping some of you can help me out with my query. I am on week 3 of 3 of my program and should be reducing the number of reps that I am doing for each exercise along with increasing the weights I am working with.

Doing ok for most exercises except for the arm pullover. On week 1 I used 2kg dumbells and did 12-15 reps. I don't have the muscle power to use 4kgs for this exercise and as my gym has only got 2kg, 4kg, 6kg, 8kg etc dumbells I am left with doing this exercise with the 2kg dumbells in week 3 while supposedly decreasing my rep range to 8-10.

What would you do if you were me:

1.) Use the 4kgs (Risk lamping yourself in the head and not get in the full range of motion for the exercise cause you aren't strong enough to use it)
2.) Increase the range of motion back to week 1 ie 12-15 reps
3.) Lose the useless gym

Would really appreciate your feedback (except for the useless gym, am going to be looking to move elsewhere in the next few weeks).

cowzerp

Red Cortina wrote: »

Doing ok for most exercises except for the arm pullover. On week 1 I used 2kg dumbells and did 12-15 reps. I don't have the muscle power to use 4kgs for this exercise and as my gym has only got 2kg, 4kg, 6kg, 8kg etc dumbells I am left with doing this exercise with the 2kg dumbells in week 3 while supposedly decreasing my rep range to 8-10.

What would you do if you were me:

1.) Use the 4kgs (Risk lamping yourself in the head and not get in the full range of motion for the exercise cause you aren't strong enough to use it)
2.) Increase the range of motion back to week 1 ie 12-15 reps
3.) Lose the useless gym

Would really appreciate your feedback (except for the useless gym, am going to be looking to move elsewhere in the next few weeks).

Hi
im assuming by arm pullover you mean arm extension as 2kg would be too easy for basically anyone i know on the pullover exercise, if your doing the correct exercise(even if its wrongly named) then stick with the 2 till you can actually do the 4kg 1's..