There is a popular misconception about the best way to build muscles.
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I get to the gym most times to meet people trying to lift weights that are too heavy for them to handle;
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and when you tell them to reduce the weight, most people take offence in that.
What a lot of people don't realize is that lighter weights are the best when it comes to building the muscle mass,
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while heavy weights are the best in terms of building strength and endurance.
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When lifting light weights, you must push beyond your last limit per set, so that the muscles fibers can tear. These torn muscle fibers expand and repair during your period of rest.
This is not to say that heavy weigts dont cause the mustle to tear, but light weights couple with higher number of reps and sets gives the best results.
KEY WORDS
Alot of people make mistakes with these words as they usually inter change them.
If your work out program is push-ups and your target is 10 push ups...
The reps of your push up is 10
on the other hand, repeating the same 10 push ups is called "set" or "sets".
so you can have 5 sets, of 10 reps of push up.
Thanks for reading.
