HIGH REPS VS LOW REPS: How Important Is Strength For Building Muscle? – OmarIsuf

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Excellent article by Greg Nuckols on this topic

Stages of strength development

Untrained lifters’ strength primarily not a consequence of hypertrophy

In lifters who have made the earliest neurological adaptations hypertrophy starts to have a small contribution towards strength

In trained lifters, hypertrophy is a significant contributor to strength

High and Low reps produce similar hypertrophy with matched volume

However, strength is greater with heavy loads with matched volume, but takes longer to accomplish and produces greater joint stress

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Evidence that a mixture of rep ranges may be ideal for hypertrophy

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22 comments

OmarIsuf January 3, 2017 - 12:54 am

What do you prefer?

Me…

1. With a Shitstache
2. Looking like I am 12 years old

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Average Joe March 23, 2018 - 3:56 pm

I guess the real question is… why wouldn’t you want to get stronger as opposed to just look like you’re strong? Are you afraid to put in work?

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Sebastien Roux May 25, 2018 - 3:51 am

3×3 = lazy workout
5×5 = meh
4×8 = lost a lot of fat
3×10 = most basic workout, didnt feel much gains here
3-4×10-12 = made gains very often
5×15-20 = noticed nothing but it felt nice, when I went back to 3×10 I noticed that the 5×15-20 actually helped a lot more than any other program I have ever tried. I wasn't even focusing on progressive overload on this rep range, stayed on the same weight for the entire duration. I did 20 reps per set but if you focus on progressive overload you can do 15-20 as your range.

This is my personal experience with programs. Might not agree with science but yeah… Yes I have a personal training certificate, no it actually teaches nothing about muscle building techniques.

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Rafał Burdzy May 28, 2018 - 5:15 am

I think that both high reps using submaximal weight and low reps with intensity are important for long strength gain, but there is one important thing to remember if you want to switch from 10 reps and hit true one rep max with success you have to gradually decrease volume and increase intensity. To accomplish that you can use periodization.

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אודי לישא עיסוי בירושלים, המומחה שלך July 5, 2018 - 9:43 pm

the number of repetitions doesn't say anything about the intensity of the set.
what about time under tension?
you can do 5 reps in 20 sec or in 50 sec and it makes all the difference.

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Jesse Gilbride September 12, 2018 - 4:20 am

Great info, but I expected he'd mention the hypertrophic effect from eccentric loading.

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Hofi Agil Aghov October 15, 2018 - 4:44 am

Pantera- Revolution Is My Name? (ending music)

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ifStatement ifStatement November 18, 2018 - 9:25 pm

What is enough volume? I'm curious about this because people always either don't specify what enough is or say 20-25 sets per week. If you say 20 sets a week or whatever number, then why 20? Should the focus for building muscle mass not be on progressively increasing total volume performed (load x reps x sets) over time? Whichever variable you want to increase. Or can muscle mass only be built by respecting a hierarchy which could be: intensity (% of 1rm) first, reps close to failure second and sets last. Something like that. I genuinely would like to know the answer to these questions?

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Party Quest March 16, 2019 - 9:26 pm

holy shit! 100kg?! wow!

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Alex Zuong April 4, 2019 - 5:58 am

This video is literally everything you need to know about intermediate lifting! Maximize muscle if you reach a plataeu!

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b dabarber May 1, 2019 - 12:06 am Reply
Giancarlos Rosales June 22, 2019 - 9:40 pm

I generally do my first two sets like om bench or squat with heavy weights reps 1-6. Then last two 8-9 then anything else after that is 8-12

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FAHAD ALZAHRANI June 29, 2019 - 8:27 am

5 star

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Wee Doe August 4, 2019 - 7:33 pm

Watching a hot guy talking about "loads" is ….distracting

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The Gefster August 28, 2019 - 1:05 am

Studies that using high rep sets to Fai1ure produce hypertrophy. Not sure what you are talking about. F word constantly from the other idiot. Great!!

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Prel Marku November 1, 2019 - 2:38 pm

Believe me,high reps give you a lot of a mthf strength,i have never done training for one arm push up,i just did normal push ups like 30 or 50 until one day i find myself doing 10 one arm push ups.Thatch crazy men

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FOR8YESHUA November 10, 2019 - 3:43 pm

OmarIsuf + The chicken came first.

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Chris Erics August 7, 2020 - 2:05 pm

what about soldiers, martial artists and first responders, don't they need the high rep training such as Hiit and crossfit with high reps?

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Lone Leagle August 13, 2020 - 10:47 am

My upper body responds best to fast high reps of around 20-25 to failure.

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Trenbologna Sandwich September 13, 2020 - 7:22 am

I cant believe this is free

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Fred Carter March 4, 2021 - 7:14 pm

Aboot….

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Kees Logman March 13, 2021 - 10:01 am

Well said

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