When do you increase your lifting weight

[tnemo]

Just curious what some of you do to increase your lifting weight:
Do you increase when you are hitting higher reps or do you add weight and do a lower reps?

 

[IronReps]

Usually what I do is keep my upper body rep range at 6-10, and my lower at 16-20. Once I hit 10 reps on an upper body lift, for example, I'll up to poundage by 5-10.

 

[Zero V]

Usually what I do is keep my upper body rep range at 6-10, and my lower at 16-20. Once I hit 10 reps on an upper body lift, for example, I'll up to poundage by 5-10.

Pretty much like this.

When you first start lifting you may be upping your weight by quite a bit each week as your get beginner gains which are rapid. But once your solid in lifting its a paced steady game of adding 5 or 10 a week depending on how your body is responding.

 

[camnewt]

i superset with a lighter weight and run two a days to overwhelm my neuromusculature system

 

[blazer69]

Just focus on progression every workout. Always adding a few more reps to the lift or adding weight.

 

[Bullseye Forever]

Just focus on progression every workout. Always adding a few more reps to the lift or adding weight.

this is what i do

 

[MeatHead96]

I've been doing 5 sets of 5 on the compound movement and I try to go up 5lbs every week on that. Btw blazer69's avatar is making my test levels go up.

 

[blazer69]

I've been doing 5 sets of 5 on the compound movement and I try to go up 5lbs every week on that. Btw blazer69's avatar is making my test levels go up.

haha yea i bet