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Low weight/ high reps

  • 28-05-2014 12:17AM
    #1
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭


    I'm 6ft 4" and weigh close to 16 stone. I have a bit of a belly but in general I don't look my weight. I am an ectomorph and even though I weight this I still have skinny arms. The reason why I hated going to the gym is because any time I went with my friends it always involved lifting to your max and I never enjoyed that. I think my diet is OK as I have gained weight from eating good foods.

    Will I get results from lifting a low weight at high reps?


Comments

  • #2
    WhiteWalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    If you worked out a muscle enough though at low reps is it not the same thing?


  • #3
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,226 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    I'm 6ft 4" and weigh close to 16 stone. I have a bit of a belly but in general I don't look my weight. I am an ectomorph and even though I weight this I still have skinny arms. The reason why I hated going to the gym is because any time I went with my friends it always involved lifting to your max and I never enjoyed that. I think my diet is OK as I have gained weight from eating good foods.

    Will I get results from lifting a low weight at high reps?

    At this point forget the idea of ecto/meso/endo.
    Maybe your diet isn't terrible but it's unlikely you got to 16 stone eating good food. Regardless to loss weight you'll need to reduce calories and really get on top of your intake.

    Trying for a max lift is everytime is silly. So you are right to dislike it. But jumping automatically to the other extreme isn't the only option.
    There is a middle ground between max weight and high rep. Heavyish weight that you can manage for 4-6 reps.


  • #4
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Im about your size and I enjoyed and saw gains from doing drop sets. That means you pick the heaviest weight you can do 5 or more reps of and you keep doing reps of that weight, until you cant do any more. Then you go the next size down, and so on and so on, until you can barely move a 1kg dumb bell. You feel it the next day, but I saw significant gains within a few weeks.


  • #5
    desultory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭desultory


    syklops wrote: »
    Im about your size and I enjoyed and saw gains from doing drop sets. That means you pick the heaviest weight you can do 5 or more reps of and you keep doing reps of that weight, until you cant do any more. Then you go the next size down, and so on and so on, until you can barely move a 1kg dumb bell. You feel it the next day, but I saw significant gains within a few weeks.

    +1 for this.
    Best form of training I found to show results.


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