why does going tk the gym not work for me

[thales20]

i did now read what i wrote again.

"Strength and building muscle"

We are talking exclusively about strength, not building muscle. Also it doesnt matter high reps or low reps for building muscle, the difference is almost nil. The only thing that matters for body building is injuring the mucle fibers and it can be achieved with both ways. For strenght you just need to train your neural connection and that can be optimally achieved with low reps high weight.

 

[IwillRope2024]

"Strength and building muscle"

We are talking exclusively about strength, not building muscle. Also it doesnt matter high reps or low reps for building muscle, the difference is almost nil. The only thing that matters for body building is injuring the mucle fibers and it can be achieved with both ways. For strenght you just need to train your neural connection and that can be optimally achieved with low reps high weight.

Do you seriously believe that low reps build the same amount of muscles as doing 10-20 reps? maybe if you do like 10 sets of 5 reps but that takes up too much time because you will have to recover your strenght in between each set.

5x5 will not build as much muscles as doing 5 sets of 10 because it’s more taxxing on the muscles.

and if your building muscles naturally strenght will follow and you can’t get stronger if your not gaining muscles.

 

[IwillRope2024]

"Strength and building muscle"

We are talking exclusively about strength, not building muscle. Also it doesnt matter high reps or low reps for building muscle, the difference is almost nil. The only thing that matters for body building is injuring the mucle fibers and it can be achieved with both ways. For strenght you just need to train your neural connection and that can be optimally achieved with low reps high weight.

your the type of guy to believe bodybuilders who only do high rep training aren’t strong.

you can get strong with high rep training

most powerlifters also do high rep training in order to gain muscles.

if they didnt do that they wouldn’t be able to gain as much muscles thus limiting their strenght potential.

progressively overloading with high reps is key for strenght and muscles

 

[thales20]

Do you seriously believe that low reps build the same amount of muscles as doing 10-20 reps? maybe if you do like 10 sets of 5 reps but that takes up too much time and you will have to recover your strenght in between each set.

5x5 will not build as much muscles as doing 5 sets of 10 because it’s more taxxing on the muscles.

and if your building muscles naturally strenght will follow and you can’t get stronger if your not gaining muscles.

Dnr weak points with no proof nor study just pure bro science and trust me bro. Also muscle quantity doesnt relate 100% to strength.

your the type of guy to believe bodybuilders who only do high rep training are weak asf.

Weak ad hominen.

Loading Recommendations for Muscle Strength, Hypertrophy, and Local Endurance: A Re-Examination of the Repetition Continuum - PMC

Loading recommendations for resistance training are typically prescribed along what has come to be known as the “repetition continuum”, which proposes that the number of repetitions performed at a given magnitude of load will result in specific ...

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"Strength is most commonly assessed via 1RM testing that involves the performance of dynamic constant external resistance exercise using either free weights or exercise machines. Meta-analytic data of this metric shows a clear advantage to using heavier compared to lighter loads when the number of sets are similar between conditions. For example, a recent meta-analysis [10] reported a moderate to large effect size (ES) difference (ES = 0.58) favoring high- (>60% 1RM) vs. low- (≤60% 1RM) load training based on pooled data from 14 included studies. Results held true independent of whether testing was conducted in exercises for the upper or lower body. A meta-analysis by Csapo et al. [11] reported similar results in older individuals, with an overall pooled effect size difference (ES = 0.43) that indicated a moderate magnitude of effect in favor of heavy load training. Importantly, all included studies showed a strength-related advantage to using high- compared to low loads (i.e., effect sizes from all studies resided in the “favors high-load” side of the forest plot).

The strength-related benefits of heavier loads are generally observed independent of RT volume, whether expressed as the number of sets performed or the total work performed, commonly termed “volume load” (sets × repetitions × load). This is an important point of note as heavier load training necessarily results in fewer repetitions performed on a set-equated basis compared to light loads. Thus, it can be inferred that load is the dominant variable for increasing 1RM, with other variables seemingly of secondary consequence."





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also both work for muscle loading.

Effects of Low- vs. High-Load Resistance Training on Muscle ... : The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research

resistance training (RT) on muscular adaptations in well-trained subjects. Eighteen young men experienced in RT were matched according to baseline strength and then randomly assigned to 1 of 2 experimental groups: a low-load RT routine (LL) where 25–35 repetitions were performed per set per...

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“Strength gains between groups were consistent with the concept of a strength-endurance continuum (11,62). Although LL did increase maximal muscle strength, HL resulted in greater increases in both 1RMBP (6.5 vs. 2.0%, respectively) and 1RMBS (19.6 vs. 8.8%, respectively). The observation of increased improvement in strength with HL despite equivalent hypertrophy is consistent with other comparisons of high- vs. low-load training (32,46). Multiple meta-analyses have identified that peak gains in strength occur with training above 60% 1RM in both trained and untrained individuals, although the optimal intensity is higher in the trained individuals (41,42,49). The disparate strength adaptations despite equivalent hypertrophic changes between HL and LL are not unexpected, given that muscle hypertrophy accounts for approximately 19% of the change in muscle strength with chronic resistance exercise in untrained individuals (15). Even in the untrained state, muscle size is estimated to explain at most 50% of the variability in maximum muscle strength (6), suggesting that other mechanisms contribute to alterations in strength with training. Neural adaptations can contribute to increased strength with RT, including but not limited to increased muscle activation, increased motor unit firing rates, increased frequency of doublet firing, enhanced motor unit synchronization, and alterations in agonist-antagonist co-activation ratios (18); however, the contribution of these mechanisms to the present data set is not known. Regardless of potential mechanisms, it can be inferred that muscle strength is increased with both low- and high-load training but high-load training is superior for maximal strength development.”

again both loads work for muscle loading.

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[thales20]

you can get strong with high rep training

Just now I noticed you edited and YES, I have never said you cant. Its just that its more optimal doing low reps high load.