Reps vs weight

[Bulbo_juicer]

I am doing now a certain set of daily exercises, such as dips, pushups, chinups, etc. Every week I am increasing the reps, and was wondering if I should try to find ways of making them heavier, more difficult, or I will still get good results just by keeping increasing the number of reps? Thanks

 

[muskate]

The main thing your body responds to is the amount of work. Work is a combination of reps x weight. Increasing your reps is good, but eventually you are going to want to increase your reps as well. What I would do is use a certain weight until you can get 20 reps. Then increase the weight and keep using the weight until you are able to perform 20 reps again. At that time, increase the weight again.

With you doing all body weight movements, the easiest thing would be to add in a weighted vest (or a back pack with some weights in it) or hold a dumbbell between your legs while doing chin ups, dips etc.

 

[stevesmi]

absolutely you should be increasing the weight. you can continue getting stronger well into your 40's.. some of the strongest bulls in the gym are in their late 40's.

 

[AddarInc]

If you can rep hard on the big ass weights do it! Why not? At one stage I was beading 65kg dumbells out for 8 reps. I said hell yeah why not. But gonna take a while to get back to that stage!

 

[Masonic Bodybuilder]

Yea man, grab a dip belt if your gym doesn't have one.

 

[LevButlerov]

While you can progress with just reps and more reps, you will still need to increase the weights in order to increase muscle mass, which in turn will allow you to do even more reps. All in all, you will still need to increase the working weights. However, it is still cool to at least increase reps.

 

[The_Man_U]

Daily? You may just started lifting weights but I would be careful with that. Even at the beginning your body needs rest. I think a fullbody workout EoD or three times a week would be the best approach for you, and consider doing a deload week every once in a while. Yes, deloads are necessary, although at the beginning are less important than when u have some experience lifting. But keep it in mind. The overload progression is as they stated: do X reps with X weight. When you reach Y reps, increase weight. Plain and simple. But also, if u start doing a strenght training the approach should be different; at least regarding to intensities. I mean, we just told you some basics, but it is more complicated than that, start reading books so you don't lose any years.

 

[normagene]

Back to the basics! Love Body weight exercises. Now I do my push-ups (men's) with my feet on the bench while holding dumbbells so I can get a little lower. Those decline push-ups are harder.

I'm up to 23 or 25, which is pretty good for a girl.

 

[monsterish]

Heavy weight + less reps = increase in mass and strength always


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[aggirl]

Back to the basics! Love Body weight exercises. Now I do my push-ups (men's) with my feet on the bench while holding dumbbells so I can get a little lower. Those decline push-ups are harder.

I'm up to 23 or 25, which is pretty good for a girl.

Your damn right it is.....that's good for a dude to!!!

 

[Bgunz]

Volume is key with reps and Weight, also tempo can play a big role negatives can be huge. Think to increase total volume of weight every week till you PR. 6-12 weeks