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What is better for Building Muscle High or low reps?

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Coltin F asked:


I want to practice for armwrestling and i want to know what is better for building arm muscle and strength

Esther

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3 Responses to “What is better for Building Muscle High or low reps?”

  1. Pastor_of_Muppets on February 11th, 2009 9:40 pm

    Low Reps – High Weight = More Muscle Mass
    High Reps – Low Weight = More Toned Muscle

  2. Russell P on February 14th, 2009 9:43 am

    I would need to know some more about you -age conditioning level-etc. but as a rule low reps high weight builds mass -not sure that’s what you want for arm wrestling though -unless your strategy is to rip the other guy’s arm off in 10 seconds or so -I would concentrate on curls and deltoid work .Without shoulder strength nothing is possible-do 30 -40 reps of 50lbs for curls then do isolated muscle work for the various shoulder muscles-sorry about how lame this answer is but you didn’t give much to go on …

  3. denrocks1 on February 15th, 2009 11:10 pm

    Low reps for strength, high reps for toning, but I have a better workout, I do my 20 rep maximum, 15 rep max, 10 rep max, 5 rep max 3 rep max then 1-2 rep max with 1-2 minute breaks in between and it builds strenghth good, I did it almost every other day(usualy every day) for 2 weeks and gained 20 pounds max bench

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