Good day Everyone,
I'm not expert like most of people here , so i'm trying to hear everybody thoughts on this,
Would it be recommended to start with a warmup set then heavy load till failure, then reduce the weight for next set and go to failure.
Or. start light and increasing the weight and reducing the number of reps for each set.
My ultimate goal is to lose some of the body fats.
p.bxtrm
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You lose fat in the kitchen and gain or maintain muscle in the gym.
For maintaining muscle how you train hardly matters at all.
As long as mucles get a signal to be maintained you're good.
No need to hit failure, I'd advice not to when recovery is lacking from kcal deficit.
StaneC
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Don’t go extremely heavy. If you can easily, no effort at all, do 12 reps, double the weight and try how many reps can you do. If you are between 8 and 15, you are fine. Then do another set with same weight and if you are able to do half or less reps, your muscle(s) is done. Move on another exercise. After a while you will figure it out what range suits you most for which muscle: 6-8, 8-10, 8-12, up to 14, 15,… you will progress rapidly at the beginning, then weights increase will slow down.
pseb
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Hi DX. You’ll want to take a look at nutrition. You need to burn more calories than you spend. As far as lifting strategies there are a million. Personally I’ve experimented with drop sets but I found that they took too much out of me too fast. Couldn’t complete my workouts. For me a good couple warmup sets with a couple working sets are good. 1st working set with 2-3 reps left in the tank and last to failure is my go-to. But everyone has a system. I suggest you experiment and find what you like best. Be easier to be consistent that way.
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For maintaining muscle how you train hardly matters at all.
As long as mucles get a signal to be maintained you're good.
No need to hit failure, I'd advice not to when recovery is lacking from kcal deficit.