Difference Between Low & High Repititions

Do you go to the gym and ever question on what type of weights you should use? Whats the biggest difference? The largest difference is the workout routine you are actually performing. If you want big and strong muscles, you want to focus on low repetitions with heavy weights. The main reason is due to how your muscles grow. In order to grow, you ironically need to tear them apart. Eating protein bars and shakes isn't going to cut it without putting in labor. When you lift heavy weights, you essentially rip and tear the muscle apart; and when it regrows it builds a bulge. Then you rip and tear over and over again. This is how you start to get that bulk in your physique and notice your muscles getting larger. Though these are microfiber tears, so it does take some time to actually start visually noticing results.

Now when you do those low repetitions, you are still consistently doing tears to the muscle, but the results are not as heavily explosive. Your muscles basically stay your initial size, but you get severely stronger, more toned, and denser.

If you are capable of doing a specific weight around 15 repetitions and it seems too easy, you are not working your muscles and wasting your crucial effort and time. And if you are not going above 12 repetitions, you will not run the risk of creating the smaller bulges from the muscle tears if you goal is to get bigger.

For those who lift heavy weights and don't see any results, its because your not eating enough to successfully do it. Now if your aiming for muscle you want to eat a lot more calories (4000-5000). For getting toned you focus on 12-15 repetitions and stay around 1500-2500 calories depending how big you are. If you are a bigger person you do not want to cut out too much food because your body will then starve.