Heavy Weights or High Reps?

Written by Wiggy on January 31, 2011 – 10:26 am -

When it comes to building muscle, most folks that they have one of two choices:

1 – lift heavy weights (with lower reps)

2 – use higher reps (with lighter weights)

I’m not sure where this mis-conception comes from, but the idea that you can (or should) only do one or the other is just plain wrong.

In fact, if you take a look at many pro bodybuilders, what do they do – a combination of both…heavy weights *and* high reps.

Yeah, I know – all the pros are juiced to the gills. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still learn something from their training. (Besides, all the drugs in the world ain’t gonna do a damn thing for you if you don’t work your ass off in the gym.)

See, you need to do both if you wanna get big and put on some muscular size – lift heavy and do enough volume to stimulate muscle growth.

But, you need to find just that right ‘balance’ between both…and more.

Your muscle building workouts need have you:

–lift heavy…but not so heavy that you blast your nervous system into overtraining or you limit the reps (either per set or in overall volume…just one or two heavy sets at the end of a pyramid ain’t enough)

–use enough reps…but not so many that you end up using puny weights, just flushing the muscles with blood, or run the risk of long-term damage to your joints from doing too many reps

And if you have any athletic goals or aspirations, you have to add a 3rd quality to the mix – lifting fast.

Because being big and muscular is cool, and strong is awesome, but if you’re slow, then I don’t care what activity or sport you’re doing…

no speed = no success

So how do you lift heavy, use enough volume to stimulate muscle growth, AND lift with enough bar speed to be fast and explosive?

=>With Body Armor – that’s how.

See, Body Armor utilizes a pretty cool set, rep, and percentage scheme I arranged that gives you a real “best of all worlds” approach to those 3 characteristics, and is the best combination of all three.

(And you don’t have to do all your main exercises 2-3x/week or do them differently – one set/rep scheme does it all for you.)

Wanna learn more?

=>Then CLICK HERE to read about BODY ARMOR


Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt “Wiggy” Wiggins
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