How much weight to lift for lower body?

iceycoldhot · June 2014

After taking some time off from exercising, I am ready to up my game. I am a female and have been using 25 pounds for my lower body. What weight to you recommend I lift for a great lower body workout?

mperrott2205 · June 2014

You can't really ask a question like that. Only you know what your body is truly capable of. Add weight and if it's too easy, go heavier. Rinse and repeat until you start to feel it.

DanceswithWow · June 2014

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If you want to an enphsis on pounds.. a good place to start is with a max lift..determine capacity you can accomplish before the load makes you get stuck. I normally use squats.. but power clean will do.

leg press is to easy to use mechanical leverage and deadlifts your back gives you an added assist.. so not a true measure of load capacity. physical capacity yes but not training load.

use the result from one of those two lifts as a basis..

For example you are curently using 25lbs.. so max out and verify how much more over the 25lbs you can accomplish with strict form..
at this point you wnat to begin training by adding between 15 to 25% of this max.. to the 25llbs you were doing before...
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Your NEW training weight is the existing 25lbs you now do + (between 15% and 25% of the 1 rep max)...in this case

20% of 40lbs = 8 pounds more on average.. to train with

your new training poundage is 33lbs...

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margannmks · June 2014

Oh gawd who let him back in. Dance off will you. Anyway yes its up to what your capable of and what your doing. Do you mean 25 lbs total or 25 lb dumbells. I use different weights for different exercises. Squats and deadlifts are way heavier than lunges for example.