Is this workout routine I have started going to work?

[Spray_resistant]

Alright so I am working mostly with weights here and what I am doing is for 1 workout routine I hit all of the muscle groups with light weight high reps, calisthenics, and a cardio usually running or jumping rope.

I do this because I want the ripped body builder look, but the problem I have found with this in the past is when I do this exclusively I lose alot of power and can't lift nearly as heavy as I used to be able to when doing just this routine for some time.

So what I having being doing now is that routine for one workout and the next time I work out usually the day after that one I just do low reps heavy sets with all with weights or calisthenics with weights on my person somehow so I don't lose power.

Is this going to work because I want it all, the power and being able to lift heavy but still the ripped body builder look?

Any advice?

[paulsinghnl]

if you want big muscles, you gotta lift heavy weights low reps. if you want to get ripped, you need lift light weights, many reps. you want power, you need to lift heavy weights for that explosion.

Now my thing with this is: you can get a short burst of a lot of power, but then you gas out. so if you want to keep your power, you need to work with supersets (meaning workouts chained together without a break, up to 3 at a time) or you need to do like a detailed scheme where you use heavy weights and do a lot of sets (with an average amount of reps) and build up or off the weights till u really hurt the muscle.

this is hard work and a lot of work. if u can do this with maybe running, u'll get that healthy physique in no time. if you want bigger muscles, heavier weights, fewer reps.

[Spray_resistant]

if you want big muscles, you gotta lift heavy weights low reps. if you want to get ripped, you need lift light weights, many reps. you want power, you need to lift heavy weights for that explosion.

Now my thing with this is: you can get a short burst of a lot of power, but then you gas out. so if you want to keep your power, you need to work with supersets (meaning workouts chained together without a break, up to 3 at a time) or you need to do like a detailed scheme where you use heavy weights and do a lot of sets (with an average amount of reps) and build up or off the weights till u really hurt the muscle.

this is hard work and a lot of work. if u can do this with maybe running, u'll get that healthy physique in no time. if you want bigger muscles, heavier weights, fewer reps.

Well thanks for the advice I have heard about super sets but never tried any myself.

[TheNegation]

if you want big muscles, you gotta lift heavy weights low reps.

Wrong

if you want to get ripped, you need lift light weights, many reps.

Wrong

you want power, you need to lift heavy weights for that explosion.

Wrong


Don't listen to this guy, OP

[paulsinghnl]

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Don't listen to this guy, OP

there's a lot of ways of doing it, but this is the basic textbook way. he's asking it i'm showing it. what's wrong with that?

if u got something better, u gotta tell him.

[paulsinghnl]

Well thanks for the advice I have heard about super sets but never tried any myself.

the supersets are the ones that'll get the large muscle growth because of what that dude in P90x called 'muscle confusion'. when you work the muscle in different directions, it tears in different ways, 'learning' each time u train it to do the different motions stronger. and then filling up those tears is muscle growth. also very good for ur cardio. u should try it..

for instance, pushup + row, into goblet squats (where u hold a heavy dumbbell on one end) and then directly into deadlift + press up. that'll get u to break a sweat.

[TheNegation]

there's a lot of ways of doing it, but this is the basic textbook way. he's asking it i'm showing it. what's wrong with that?

if u got something better, u gotta tell him.

yeah but you're doing it wrong. That is not the text book way.

Bodybuilders with big muscles don't do heavy weight for 3-5.

Lifting light weights for **** tons of reps isn't going to get you ripped.


Go look up "West Side for Skinny Bastards Pt. 3" and follow that routine.

[paulsinghnl]

yeah but you're doing it wrong. That is not the text book way.

Bodybuilders with big muscles don't do heavy weight for 3-5.

Lifting light weights for **** tons of reps isn't going to get you ripped.


Go look up "West Side for Skinny Bastards Pt. 3" and follow that routine.

yeah alright from the get-go you're right, but in this case, i'm adding to his workout. he's already working out well, so if he does some heavy weights for 8-10 reps, he'll get the muscle increase. (3-5 is ridiculous by the way, do people do that?)

and u can not tell me that light weights for a lot of reps is not gonna get you definition, because it will, it's the truth. i'm happy for any video like that. but it's a truth, it works.

by the way, nice sig. Rua's gonna catch Machida for sure next time. too bad they don't let em do his footstomps.

[TheNegation]

yeah alright from the get-go you're right, but in this case, i'm adding to his workout. he's already working out well, so if he does some heavy weights for 8-10 reps, he'll get the muscle increase. (3-5 is ridiculous by the way, do people do that?)

For hypertrophy (muscle building) I find it best to do as much weight as you can for 8-12 Reps with good form.

3-5 is Max Effort and yes people do that. (Power Lifters) on their max effort days.

and u can not tell me that light weights for a lot of reps is not gonna get you definition, because it will, it's the truth. i'm happy for any video like that. but it's a truth, it works.

It's really not. Getting ripped is about a clean diet and cardio, not doing a certain exercise for 10000000 reps.

by the way, nice sig. Rua's gonna catch Machida for sure next time. too bad they don't let em do his footstomps.

May can't come soon enough. Rua WILL finish Machida.

[Spray_resistant]

For hypertrophy (muscle building) I find it best to do as much weight as you can for 8-12 Reps with good form.

3-5 is Max Effort and yes people do that. (Power Lifters) on their max effort days.



It's really not. Getting ripped is about a clean diet and cardio, not doing a certain exercise for 10000000 reps.




May can't come soon enough. Rua WILL finish Machida.

Yes, this guy I know who competes in power lifting contests advised me to do that and It has increased how much I can max with over time but I do a set of 8, then 7, then 6, and finally just whatever I can do with my max.

So, you don't think light weights high reps are good for anything? I would say they help endurance because I have experimented with my workouts over the years and found that if I lift heavy/low rep exclusively for a long period of time it becomes very difficult to complete sets of 12-15 reps when I have tried.