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adaowerri
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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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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.
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