what is best?

What's your goal?

i agree

High weight with low reps will make you big. Low weight with high reps will make you toned. It's your choice.

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does high weight/low rep and is SUPAH big.

That depends on a number of things; what's your goal; what you consider to be a lower or higher weight; how many reps are we talking about?

If you're trying to gain strength and/or power, higher weights with lower reps (like a 5x5 program) can be good.

I do interval training, because I'm still trying to burn my fat suit from the inside, and I want to preserve my lean muscle mass. I keep myself to weights that I can get 4 sets of 6 - 10 reps per exercise - (usually 8 exercises per session) out in good form. If I can't do at least 6, the weight is too high, if I can do more than 10, the weight is too low so I adjust accordingly.

High weight with low reps will make you big. Low weight with high reps will make you toned. It's your choice.

BROSCIENCE!!!!

High weight with low reps will make you big. Low weight with high reps will make you toned. It's your choice.

This is asinine. Choosing a weight that you can only rep 5-8 reps to failure is a good range if you have strength goals. Choosing a weight that you can rep only rep 8-12 reps to failure is a good range if you have hypertrophy goals, 12+ reps to failure are for endurance.

There is no such thing as "toning" muscle. Muscle either gets bigger or smaller, and muscle definition is a result of body fat percentage.

High weight with low reps will make you big. Low weight with high reps will make you toned. It's your choice.

do I know you.....

have I seen you before?

perhaps in the "weights made me bulky" threads?

you realise how much testosterone a woman needs to have in order to get "big" right?

What's your goal?

This all day long

possible to identify what "high", "low" actually mean as it pertains to reps and weight? We talkin 2 reps? 100 reps?

Generally (I could be wrong here, but I'm sure it will be corrected if I am. I hope so anyway.) If your goal is to build strength, you would pick a lifting plan that focuses on higher weight and lower reps. (Typically 5 or fewer reps, with 5 or less sets for each lift.) Body recompostition is usually done at lower weights and higher/sets and reps. (6 or more reps with a varying number of sets.) For someone new to lifting, I would recommend starting a progressive strength training routine geared towards a beginner. With this, you'll build solid, foundational strength, and learn proper form which will help decrease the potential for injury. This will also help you preserve lean body mass, which is important when you are eating at a calorie deficit. You will likely see a good bit of muscle definition (What I think you are meaning when you say "toned".) with this course of action as well.

If you have access to a gym, you can check out New Rules of Lifting for Women, Stronglifts 5x5, or Starting Strength. If you don't have access to a gym or much lifting equipment, you can start with progressive bodyweight strength routines from nerdfitness.com, or look up You Are Your Own Gym, or Body By You. Do lots of research and work your *kitten* off and you'll get to where you want to be. Good luck with it.

I mix it up because I get bored.