how much is too much

[unhip_crayon]

well i got a friend who got a whole new gym for christmas at his house(bench press table, butterfly thing ect.) and he does this thing wat he calls "power lifting". Wat he does is for example, bench presses the most he can do till he gets tired. So he benches 120 lbs till he cant anymore, then he'll take of 10lbs and do as much as he can, then another 10 and so on. Eventually he'll get to just the bar itself and can only lift it like 5 times. He does this with every muscle till he cant move at then end of the day and he rest for 3 days and does it again. Is this healthy? i personally dont think so.

all i have is 2 dumbells at my hous and work out like an hour a day and rest on weekends and i am more built then my friend and he had his gym longer then i had my duumbells.

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[Vendetta]

as long as he's not injuring himself and is getting sufficient recovery between work outs its fine and he wont have any problems.

[Nabil]

i didnt think that was power lifting :D

[ROIDS!]

Drop Sets.

[Drex]

Yey for drop sets. Tell your friend that he needs to do more than just specializing in the bench press. Hes still missing out on his back, biceps, triceps, traps, abs, quads, hams, glutes, and calves

[falcon3608]

Yey for drop sets. Tell your friend that he needs to do more than just specializing in the bench press. Hes still missing out on his back, biceps, triceps, traps, abs, quads, hams, glutes, and calves

Read ze entire pozt!

[Drex]

Read ze entire pozt!


Er... My bad. It was late. I must have skipped half of it.

[General Miaow]

Your intuition is right, crayon - training to failure (i.e. lifting till you can't lift no more) and drop sets are overkill and will inevitably lead to overtraining. What's your friend aiming for - size, strength, endurance?

[unhip_crayon]

i dont know wat hes aimin for and i dont think he knows himself either lol. Im guessin strength

[jackenloper]

what ever it is.... powerlifting is usually not training to failure. Its lifting heavy for low reps.

[General Miaow]

Generally speaking, for strength you want to lift at least 75% of your maximum 2-6 times. For size lower the weight and use 8-12 reps. For endurance, less weight still and 20+ reps, but still not quite to failure, just until it getts pretty hard.

[unhip_crayon]

I think this is doin no good to him cause i am more stronger then he is and all i have is two dumbells while he has a whole gym + hes being workin out for 6 month longer than i have. kinda weird

[lumimies]

If your start to feel tired all the time, have trouble sleeping, your heart rate starts to get a bit faster when in rest and/or you can't get as high heart rates in interval training as usually it's time to take a break. I've heard from a number of people who lift a lot of weights (I myself don't go the gym at all, bodyweight excersises are enough for me, atleast right now) that they've been able to lift more after a break of a week due to a holiday trip or whatnot.
Of course a lot of those symptoms (especially the ones concerning heart rates) are hard to spot unless you do a lot of cardio.
And of course if training starts to feel boring then take a break, just a day or two to watch some good movies or go the PUB. It's supposed to be fun after all.

[commandarcool]

those are called supersets or drop sets...they make you gain a ton of mass but you can easily injure yourself if you do it to often

[compleks]

thankyou very much, commandarcool.