Reps or Weight

[TickTockTickTock]

What do you do? Been doing reps for the past year but now I'm going to try out weights see how much (or lack of) improvement occurs till June.

[FlyingJesus]

Doesn't it depend on whether you want tone or build

[RedStratocas]

less weight/more reps is for tone, more weight/less reps is for bulk.

[Soy]

All 'toning' does is burn calories you wont get mass

If you want mass lift heavy - 5-8 reps

You have to eat big aswell, 400+ above maintenence gaining 1lb a week is good for a bulk.

[Wig44.]

Toning doesn't exist. If you want more 'definition' then lose the lard.

[TickTockTickTock]

Doesn't it depend on whether you want tone or build
Not too sure, lot's of people say different things.

Think I'm going to combine the weights with the reps like a few people have recommended, it'll be an interesting outcome...

[Smits]

Doing a lot of reps with small weights wont make you stronger or much bigger, it's just burning calories.

[TickTockTickTock]

Doing a lot of reps with small weights wont make you stronger or much bigger, it's just burning calories.
Who mentioned small weights?

[Smits]

Who mentioned small weights?

you dont do alot of reps with larger weights...

Not to mention, if it was big weights then the question wouldnt be asked, because despite how many reps you do, it's still weight.

[TickTockTickTock]

you dont do alot of reps with larger weights...

Not to mention, if it was big weights then the question wouldnt be asked, because despite how many reps you do, it's still weight.
Depends what you class as reps.


You could do a large number of reps with small weights or three or four reps with weights which don't quite hit your peak.

[Smits]

Depends what you class as reps.


You could do a large number of reps with small weights or three or four reps with weights which don't quite hit your peak.

Exactly.

it's usually either

Small weight, alot of reps per set or
heavy weights, less reps per set

Small being something the individual can lift easily and large being something that is hard for them to lift.

[TickTockTickTock]

Exactly.

it's usually either

Small weight, alot of reps per set or
heavy weights, less reps per set

Small being something the individual can lift easily and large being something that is hard for them to lift.
I guess I should of mentioned 'weights' equals to lifting the max weight you can the max amount of times so it's not really classed as reps whereas if you're lifting the weight which doesn't quite hit your peak for a set amount then it's reps.

I think we're both on the same track, just making sense of it!!

[Smits]

Yeah haha, think it's just complicated to explain.

it probably depends on the individual as well at the end of the day. What works for one person might not show the same results for another.