How HEAVY Should You Lift For Muscle Growth? (Avoid Mistakes!)

Remember that hypertrophy is an extremely flexible adaptation! A huge variety of rep ranges and exercises can work! If you like exercises that allow you to go heavy, and prefer training in a relatively low ~4-6 rep range, that can definitely work. Similarly, if you like going lighter and working more in the 15-30 type of range with more emphasis on isolations and/or machines, that can work too. There are many roads to getting swole! Was great to get in a workout with the Dorito Deadlifter himself. Seeing that kind of training in person was a rare treat, I usually lift alone so it was a nice change of pace. Can check out his Instagram below, he recently crushed a 600lb squat along with a deadlift north of the 700lb mark, showing that you can get strong as hell naturally as well as jacked: www.instagram.com/dorito_deadlifts/

man I wish Geoffrey still did his hello to us. my absolute favorites are - 1. what's up humanoids 2. hey there protein enjoyers 3. what's up McNuggets 4. hello my fellow bipedals

As heavy as it takes brah

"Weight is a number. Heavy is a feeling." - Massenomics

Good to know my 3x5 kegels are still hypertrophic

“It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” - Socrates

Training with you was fun, bro. You saw god on those paused squats! I think in both of our cases, time and effort have been the two most important factors to reaching our goals, whether they're hyper specific (like for powerlifting) or otherwise

As heavy as I can go for 8 HOUR ARM WORKOUT ‼️

Omg i was shocked geoff reps out 140kg now...but it was someone else thank god

My answer: As heavy as needed in order to achieve "muscular failure" in programed rep range for isolations. With compounds I try to go by feel in order to achieve "0 RIR" also in programed rep range... 3-4 sec contrentric grinder while trying for the fastest one possible is helpful indicator of "the last rep" but it is still subjective... so make sure to write down the numbers of the lifted weights to your training log to see if you are progressing over time.

beard coming in strong.

Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder BUT NOBODY WANNA LIFT HEAVY ASS WEIGHT

Heavy Light Medium has worked well for me. It's the "Balanced Diet" of hobby lifting: varied and nutritious.

how heavy are the dumbbells you lift?

I do Reverse Pyramid with Compounds 8RM-10RM-10RM-15RM and Dropset for isolation 15RM\ 20s break -20% weight \ 20sec break -20% weight. For Deadlifs I just do reps 8 rir2/3. If I hit target reps for the first set with good form I increase the weight. I came down with conclusion that for most optimal growth you want to incorporate all rep ranges, also the higher rep range you go the closer you can get to failure without getting injuries.

For the main lifts (Squat/Bench/Deadlift) heavy work (3-6 reps) seems to be the way to go for growth, but for isolation work, it's far less important and higher reps (10-25) seem to stimulate more growth. This is purely anecdotal from my experiences though.

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IMO, low reps on compounds can be fantastic for muscle growth if you do a very slow eccentric on each rep, making sure each rep is absolutely perfect, doing lifts that have a good SFR, and going at about RPE 8 or so. I really like doing 8x2-3 (Doug Hepburn!) with low rest times (~60 sec). You get a lot of effective reps, it actually doesn't take that long to do because of low rest time, and great for refining movement patterns. The stimulus is quite good I think compared to eg. a 3x10. This sort of low rep training is underrated IMO. The key is to pick lifts with a good SFR and really milk the most out of each eccentric. The low reps allow you to do that without the set being too exhausting.

My biggest problem is, I don't know what I want. My mind is constantly changing goals and I get left inbetween.

Man, I don’t know what it is about the outro music that I love so much but I dig it. It’s almost like it reminds me to be wise with my lifts and technique!