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Heavy Weights vs Light Weights - Build Muscle (THE WINNER IS)

Heavy Weights vs Light Weights - Build Muscle (THE WINNER IS)

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The question of whether to use heavy weights or light weights to build muscle is one of the most common training questions. The answer is not so straight forward. The fact of the matter is that in order to build as much muscle as possible you better learn that you need to lift light weights at times and heavy weights at other times. In fact, there is a third way that you should be lifting as well if you want to get serious muscle. In this video, I use the example of the shoulder side lateral raise to illustrate how to build muscle using both light weights and heavy weights on the same exercise. It has to do with the portion of the contraction that you are attempting to focus the overload necessary for building mass on. If you are looking to overload the concentric or positive portion of the lift then you better get used to lowering the weight that you are using. That-s right. Leave the ego lifting at the door when you are trying to build muscle by overloading the concentric. Often times, way too much momentum is used to throw a weight up during the concentric on an exercise. This disperses the force from the single area that you are trying to build up to the many areas and muscles around the muscle in question and therefore weakens the overall effect on the target muscle. On the contrary, if you are trying to stress the eccentric or lowering phase of a muscle contraction on a target muscle then you better get used to asking for help from surrounding muscles in order for this to work the best. In the example of the side lateral raise for shoulders, the middle delts can recruit additional help from the traps, rear delts and even torso muscles to safely help cheat the weight up into position where a stronger eccentric can be performed. Relying solely on the amount of weight that can be strictly muscled up by the singular muscle in question will limit the amount of weight that you can use on an eccentric (and therefore will be limiting your size potential. This technique is actually something that you can apply to not just this one exercise but almost every exercise you can do. That said, this combination of heavy weights and light weights is not enough to complete the picture. The explosive component of your training can only be achieved by using a weight that is in the middle of the two extremes shown here and focusing on accelerating the weight as you lift it. This introduces the element of power to strength. Power combined with concentric and eccentric overload makes your size and strength gains even more functional. For a complete training and workout program that builds functional strength at the same time as it is helping you to add serious muscle size and strength, head to and get the ATHLEAN-X Training System. Start training like a pro athlete and learn how you can start looking like one in just 90 days with physical therapist and strength coach Jeff Cavaliere guiding your every workout
Date: 2022-04-22

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Can someone explain to me how you apply this to your workouts? What I mean by that is, how often do you switch your focus from lighter weight and more reps to heavy weight and lower reps? Do you have a little of both in each workout? Switch it up a few times a week? A few weeks out of the month? I just want to be sure that my next bulk is as productive as possible.
I plan on focusing mainly on heavier weights and getting stronger and using that method to gain muscle. Hearing this, however, makes me want to have a little mix of both. Any answers are appreciated. Thanks guys.

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But the big question is which is better for Bulk i think the heavy weights is better for bulking even if your form isn't perfect i mean who dose every rep 100% perfect every time any way if you try to do every rep perfectly every time i really cant see you go past 5Kg but hay good form is good the way i do it is to go as heavy as i can and still control the rep went from 40Kg barbell curls to 80Kg barbell curls in 4 months and i can see the results some times i still cheat a bit but what ever gets that weight up
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-Excellent set of weights! >>>--ur2. pl/1182-- I start with these for motivation, then I get on my BOWFLEX M3 MAX TRAINER! I can do cardio and strength in the same workout! I do a set of reps for three different muscles, then after I do a set for each of those muscles, I FEEL ENERGIZED TO HOP ON MY ELLIPTICAL (the M3) FOR 20 MINUTES, then I get off and do 2 more sets for those three different muscle groups, and I'm done! Excellent equipment, just gotta keep doing it at least 5 times a week! -
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Hey, so my dad lost his right arm when he was a kid, and he wants to workout but doesn't wanna get all unbalanced with muscle since he can't do anything with his right arm. So can he still workout his upper body, are would it get to off balanced? And if he could workout his upper body, what would you suggest him doing? Thanks in advance if you do a video on it, and if you don't that's fine to, cause it's not something that a lot of people struggle with.
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Yeah I always did my laterals with both light and heavy from very long time like the way how Jeff showed and others laughed on me saying that it's useless, it sucks and its pointless. I ended doing wrong workout thinking that maybe the way I feel the tension on my shoulders was the right way and other said that doing this would injure my shoulders even though knowing that I was the right guy with right workout I ended up working out wrong
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back in the day my friend's dad looked like a bodybuilder and 1 day when i was at my friend's house and asked to see his father's weights and bench. I was in shook. all her had were them old time weights that had the cement on the inside with the plastic cover. he didn't have much weight but all the weights were actually on the bar. i was able to lift that sucker and i was small then. he would also do legs and he had huge legs as well
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I agree, however I think if you're new to lifting or coming back after not lifting for awhile though you should focus on light weights and SLOWLY build up. I went up too fast and hurt myself, your muscles are ready faster then your smaller tendons are. The tendons take a lot longer to build up then the muscles, so even though you can lift the weight you will be prone to injury.
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Hello Jeff. I have made you my Guru since the day I have started following your videos. I have a simple question - sometimes the weight is too heavy for us and if we are supposed to complete 20 reps with that weight but we could do only 15, can we complete the rest 5 with a lighter weight?
I think this a confusion with a lot of people who go to gyms. Please educate us.

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I'm fairly new to bingeing these videos. And I have big confidence problems in sticking to training. But this kind of learning about stuff, it makes me more fired up, connects that nerdy part of my brain to the enjoying physical activity part! The thought is, -yes, here is a way how I can improve, now I want to try it out! - Very interesting and very cool. :)
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Thanks for all your videos, I-ve been watching them for a couple of months and I literally watch your videos while I work out at the Gym and in my Livingroom, and from your health eating videos, from both types of videos, in almost 2 moths I went from 245 to 220 pounds, oh your vids are the best. Keep up the years of good work, your my favorite bro.
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