Weight Lifting TechniquesMuscle Forums - Enter here to discuss various weight lifting techniques which rapidly build muscle or a tone body. Also, discussion of safety measures involved while practicing each technique and the benefits of each style.
I always bought in to the belief that low reps were good for building mass and high reps were good for building up endurance and vascularity, but not really as much for mass.
Is that still the current thinking, or is it more complex than that? If I am looking for general fitness with good muscle tone, what should I be looking at in terms of reps?
If you are trying to tone your body. I suggest that you start at 3 sets at 10-12 reps the first week and then 3-4 sets at 12-15 reps. I like to stretch between sets, instead of resting.
I also prefer to do a lot of reps with lighter weight. I'm more interested in toning up than bulking up. A lot of reps can be quite good for your cardio too.
Well I like to do less weighT and more reps. Though sometimes instead of usual reps I'd work out certain muscles for a certain amout of time. Like my biceps.I alternated five - ten minutes on each of them
If you are trying to tone your body. I suggest that you start at 3 sets at 10-12 reps the first week and then 3-4 sets at 12-15 reps. I like to stretch between sets, instead of resting.
When you stretch between sets what kind of stretching are you doing? Is it bodypart dependant? IE if doing legs, do you just focus on stretching the legs, or do you do full body extensions and such?
I take short breaks as need be during the time. But they're only for a few seconds then I go back to it. I like to make sure that both sides get the same amount of time, if I can.
it depends on what you want.if you are trying to gain some muscles 6 to 8 reps is the way to do it.ifyou are looking for strengh then try 2 to 3 reps.if you are just looking to tone up,anything from 12 to 20 is good.
i do 6 to 8 reps as i am trying to gain as much muscle as posible.still,there are times when i do 12 reps per set to get over the so called plateaus
through a training session i go through different rep ranges.first i do my warm-up and then i do sets of 15,12,8,8,6 reps per exercise.this type of workout is the best that i have tried so far
I don't think I have ever done 20 reps. If I am just doing one of my cardio workouts I will go from 12-15 reps. Then lower for muscle workout, although I have never done hardcore max weight training. So my low reps are 6-8 not 2-3.
High or low reps 
