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Am I the only one who does this?

elishazf
elishazf Posts: 332 Member
edited January 23 in Fitness and Exercise
I cycle my lifts. So I figure out my max then each the first workout will be 80 then, 85, 90, 95, 100 and then i'll keep going till I find my new max and then start over. It's worked really well for me so far (you can see in my pictures one i'm really skinny then I look bigger in my profile). I was just wondering how it was working for others and who else did it

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  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Wait, I'm confused. Are you saying that you do 80% of your max, then 85%, and so on like a pyramid type of workout?
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  • elishazf
    elishazf Posts: 332 Member
    the idea is that you go from 80% to 85% to 90% to 95% to your max at 100%. You do a different percent each day, I worded it badly. I didn't really mean go over your max. The idea is that once you've reached your max you will have already built more muscle and you just keep going up till you find your new max then start over
  • lilpoindexter
    lilpoindexter Posts: 1,122 Member
    I have no idea WTF you just said...but if you are seeing gains, keeps doing it.
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    the idea is that you go from 80% to 85% to 90% to 95% to your max at 100%. You do a different percent each day, I worded it badly. I didn't really mean go over your max. The idea is that once you've reached your max you will have already built more muscle and you just keep going up till you find your new max then start over

    I can honestly say that I have never done anything like that...or at least, not on purpose.

    I just go 3x5 as heavy as possible on the compound lifts (if I can do 6, I add more weight, if I can't get to 5, I reduce the weight), and each week I've been progressing heavier on all of them. After the compound lifts, I do 4x10 of about 4 other exercises related to the compound (such as following squats with leg presses, leg extensions, leg curls, and then an ab exercise like planks) to finish off the day. This is also easier to record in my Jefit app on my phone.

    It seems that if you try to do a different percentage of your conceived max each week that there would be a lot of prep work before each workout to figure out what that would be, and then since you should be progressing each time you hit the gym, it would change each week anyway and the calculations would just start to piss me off...

    But that's just me. If this works for you, then go for it. :flowerforyou:
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