Comments on: Light Weight High Reps – Horrible Advice For Increasing Muscle Tone

By: Rusty Fulk

Rusty Fulk — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:50:26 +0000

Rusty here. I’m Recovering from a TIA. I was 95-97% Blocked in My Neck. Scary. Almost a Dead On Stroke. Well I Quit Smoking and I Needed Something to Fill that Void. So I Turned to Food . Got up to 335 ish? wrestling with size 48 Jeans. And I Said ” I’ve Got to Do Something Drastic.” That was Thanksgiving 21. I started Benching and Curling. Walking Ect. Eating High Protein Very Low Carb. Working out every other Day. Benching low Weights 135 × 10 ×6 set. Then 7 set on to 10 sets. I’m Starting 185 today for the 6 week forever program. I’m Turning 59 in October.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:17:02 +0000

In reply to Keith. In 2019 i had a TIA. And Fully Recovered. I'm working on a forever 6 week program. 5 Sets 10 reps. 135lbs . Next I'm jumping to 185. Then225. I feel Geat. I'll be 59 in October. Thanks

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 15:10:39 +0000

In reply to Keith. I did.135 10 sets 10 reps

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:27:43 +0000

I wouldn’t write off higher rep routines as useless, because every person responds to different stimuli. But I agree that heavy weights are a way to go, at least in my case. It seems to me that lifting heavy (or, at any rate, for up to 9 reps, which is not technically superheavy) burns more calories. For that reason I use it even when I diet for those single digits body fat moments.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:52:43 +0000

In reply to Jamie. Variety is super important.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:29:22 +0000

I’m 57 and I incorporate a mix of training. Long distance running, cross training, sprinting, cross fit, heavy weight, low weight, body weight….you get the picture.

IMHO while I agree with the article, I also believe you need a variety in your training in order to be well developed in both muscular endurance, size and overall fitness. Probably the most important factor of course is diet.

Cheers and may you all live long and prosper.

By: Cam

Cam — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 03:08:02 +0000

Hmmm.. Over ten years ago now, all I owned was a couple of dumbbells. When I was using them, back then, they were only around 8kg a piece. I used to do 1 long set of up to 50 or so reps doing hammer curls. The pump I got was substantial. After a few months of these, my arms were pretty big, all the time. I would throw in some occasional shoulder presses, so my tris were getting a little too. As a caveat, I was on medication at the time and probably eating like a horse, so in a calorie surplus. I am not convinced that high rep low weight can’t work. It may not build tone like it’s supposed to, but it can add size under the right conditions, at least in my subjective experience.

By: George

George — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:05:23 +0000

I agree with building strength base and progressive overload is number 1 priority but IMO that’s for your main compound lift mostly. You still need some light or moderate weight for certain exercise like side literal raise or triceps extension or calve raise. Therefore I wouldn’t say lifting heavy is the only way cus theres place for a bit lighter weight such as doing isolation work. That’s how I train 🙂

By: Dmitri

Dmitri — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:46:46 +0000

In reply to MIke. Well doing light weights until failure is going to build you muscle, but not as well as heavy weights with low reps. Anyways it does build so if there are people out there that don't have the heavy weights they can still build muscle.

By: ALi

ALi — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:24:19 +0000

In reply to Vivian. body weight training and not increasing your body weight is the key to muscle tone and you gotta do high reps, I had shredded muscles when I was a teen by just doing tons of pushups (200 reps per set), squats (200 reps per set), pullups (50 reps per set), chinups (same), without using any weights. (actually, my dumbbells were only 7kg that I used for dumbbell curls, so they don't really count).