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Originally Posted by CHRIS67
If your going for bulk, high weights, fast and few reps.
Going for tone, lower weight, slow and many reps.
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you know, that's a good way to start out, but every body is different and react to the stress of working out differently. i always did slow, low weight and high reps a coupla weeks out from a show. i found that it didn't cut me as much as completely fill my muscles with blood. more blood == more oxygen == more energy. and trust me, i was never lacking in the bulk department, but i never did buy into that "higher weights, fewer reps". i found that my muscles didn't respond as well to that stimulus - sometimes after a full workout i barely got a pump at all and never felt tired on the low rep workouts. all i did to balance it out was find 85% of my max for a given exercise and workout with that. i could usually do 12-15 to start, and i would slowly work myself to failure - however many sets it took. supersets and jumbo-sets were a real awakening after working single exercises for a while.
so, remember, listen to your body. vary your routine. eat right. get enough sleep. get big.