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Can you workout with high reps, low weight, 7x a week?

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I was going to start a bulking routine, but our work is having a contest, and I do have about 20 lbs of excess fat lying around, so I was trying to come up with a program.

If I did high rep low weigh routines 7x a week for the purpose of burning calories and tightening up/toning what I have, would that work, or is that too often to workout to get any results? The main purpose of it would be to tone way up and condition my muscles for the bulking in 2 months, as well as burn calories.


thanks
 
You won't lose weight from lifting alone. It simply doesn't burn enough calories. Similarly, you won't bulk up from doing low weight, high reps lifting. So it's pretty much an all-around losing proposition.

Aerobic exercise + diet for slimming, heavy lifting for bulking. There's really no other way to do it.
 
As long as your doing a different muscle part each time you should be fine, because it really = out to that muscle group being hit once or twice a week. As for burning fat while weight lifting, whoever said you won't lose weight is an idiot. If you do high rep, with little rest, you sweat like a bitch and it's pretty much a cardio workout, anyone that does not is obviously not working out hard enough. I would say try the program if toning up and muscle conditioning is what you are trying to achieve for bulking, just make sure you are not only doing high repititions but also getting high muscle stimulation exercises (eg...10 reps fast...10 seconds pulses...10 reps slow...5 fast).

Good luck and let us know how your routine is going.
 
Originally posted by: shortspanishguy
24 hours is NOT enough rest. training any muscle 3 times a week will lead to overtraining.
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The trainer that set-up our gym at work says 3 times a week for weights with a day in-between each workout. Doesn't mean he's right, just the latest I've heard.
 
Originally posted by: aircooled
Originally posted by: shortspanishguy
24 hours is NOT enough rest. training any muscle 3 times a week will lead to overtraining.
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The trainer that set-up our gym at work says 3 times a week for weights with a day in-between each workout. Doesn't mean he's right, just the latest I've heard.
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yea but did he say to do each muscle 3 times a week, w/1 day between?

if he did, he's an idiot. if he said to split your muscle groups into 3 seperate days, and do each day once a week, then he's not.
 
Originally posted by: aircooled
Originally posted by: shortspanishguy
24 hours is NOT enough rest. training any muscle 3 times a week will lead to overtraining.
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The trainer that set-up our gym at work says 3 times a week for weights with a day in-between each workout. Doesn't mean he's right, just the latest I've heard.
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im sure he doesnt mean the same muscle group. I lift 3 times per week, but I hit 2 muscle groups for each session.
 
Also you can throw in a heavy set here and there just to stimulate your muscles even more. Do a drop set after that for even better results 🙂
 
What body parts are you working out?

We would need more info.

But for most people you would not lose weight as affectively this way.

Best way to lose weight to just gut it out and do sprint intervals. They can be on a bike, rowing or running. This will SHRED you FAST.

You can't train 7x a week like that also. You will f0ck yourself over. Less is more.

Tidy up your diet and you can drop 2lbs a week easily.

Wheny you mean high rep, how many reps is that? Low weight as in? High rep 12-15reps imo. Low weight = less then 60% of 1RM. Too low and it will not do anything. But if your working hard it doesn't matter what the weight is but too low is almost useless, depending on what you want to do.

Koing
 
Originally posted by: shortspanishguy
24 hours is NOT enough rest. training any muscle 3 times a week will lead to overtraining.
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Not according to HST which puts you on a 3 day a week muscle training schedule..


I am NOT trying to gain muscle, i am trying to tone and condition my current muscles, and I do plan on doing mucho aerobic exercise.... but i wanted to tone/condition in the meantime and though this would be a good way to get in the habit as well as burn a few calories, and benching 80 lbs 100 times a day will burn a bit of calories, as well as squatting 100lbs 100 x a day
 
Originally posted by: Koing
What body parts are you working out?

We would need more info.

But for most people you would not lose weight as affectively this way.

Best way to lose weight to just gut it out and do sprint intervals. They can be on a bike, rowing or running. This will SHRED you FAST.

You can't train 7x a week like that also. You will f0ck yourself over. Less is more.

Tidy up your diet and you can drop 2lbs a week easily.

Wheny you mean high rep, how many reps is that? Low weight as in? High rep 12-15reps imo. Low weight = less then 60% of 1RM. Too low and it will not do anything. But if your working hard it doesn't matter what the weight is but too low is almost useless, depending on what you want to do.

Koing
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Sup bud 🙂 I stopped posting over at geekfitness because as far as things go, I never end up sticking to a progress thread and Its embarassing now that I have like 4 threads hehe.

I want to get in the habit of lifting, as well as work on my form, and exercise, that way it becomes second nature.. I know 7x a week is pushing it, but if I try 7x a week I will end up doing it 3-5x a week because of interruptions, traveling, house projects, etc If i plan 3x a week, and something falls on that day it will cut me down to 1-2x a week...

My father worked manual labor 5 days a week doing construction, etc.... I can't imagine that out of those 5 days of fairly hard work, that he wasnt doing the same thing over and over again.... He wasnt HUGE but he had good tone.


My basic question was.... If I do about 50% of my max, work on form, multiple sets, in addition with diet and cardio, with that tone the muscle I have... not build, just tone, and condition it, so that when I start going heavy for bulking I will be lean, and have muscles that are well toned?

 
Depends on what you do. I rowed and did the same weights 6 days a week and saw great improvements, but then again, I was a rower. The weights were really just a leg press, with a lot of weight, only going down maybe 1/4 of the way, 100 reps x 2. So not serious weight training, but serious training...
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Depends on what you do. I rowed and did the same weights 6 days a week and saw great improvements, but then again, I was a rower. The weights were really just a leg press, with a lot of weight, only going down maybe 1/4 of the way, 100 reps x 2. So not serious weight training, but serious training...
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Like I said, wanting condition/tone more than anythign over the next 2 months..
 
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