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Originally posted by Vaskez:
If you do heavy weights you'll get buff but it's nicer to have definition instead of huge bulking muscles (according to all the girls I've asked). By doing low weight high rep, you still build power just not as quickly but on the upside you get a lot more toned.
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the way I understand it is that if you do long sets, you gain endurance instead of raw strenght. sure, you gain a bit of strenght aswell, its only natural. a cool(ish) fact is that if you train strenght with heavy weights, then switch to endurance-gaining sets, you actually lose quite alot of your maximum strenght. I train 4 times/per week, and I started out training nothing but maximum strenght, but I stopped a doing that a while back after I noticed that Id be panting after a walk from the bus station to school(about 200 yards...pathetic). So these days I train with medium lenght sets(12-15 reps), and try to do some jogging every now and then to improve the oxygen intake of the body...
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Originally posted by Firestormalpha:
Ummm, you're a masochist? That's really a little more than I ever wanted to know about you.
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ROTFL! um, Ilander, you are aware that a masochist is someone who physically harms himself(purposely and repeatedly)...arent you?