lifting

adaowerri
adaowerri Posts: 34 Member
edited January 25 in Fitness and Exercise
well im planning on hopping onto the lifting wagon soon. right now im benching about 65 pounds, but ,my question is what is con sidered "lifting heavy". i cant do squats with the 65 pound bar because it hurts my back and neck.....sooo shud i just gooo back to lifting just the bar itself. also with lifting 4 times a week should my calorie intake be uppped ? im at 1440 right now ?

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  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    I am no expert on this, but it seems many purists will argue that lifting "heavy" is the practice of power lifting or Olympic lifting only to compete with 1 Rep Max lifts completely compound moves only.

    On MFP, many refer to lifting heavy as any lifting where you're working in a rep range that has you working with sets of 5-8 or so without really having any strength left to keep going - not necessarily to failure, but close. And this includes big compound moves like with Stronglifts or Starting Strength or a combination of compound moves and more isolation work as with 5/3/1 or NROL.

    I think...
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