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I was curious if y'all have a feeling about what weight you like to work out at vs. how much you could put up.
Here is a men's health article which is perfectly in line with middling gym bro personal trainer speak.
Anyway, 67% of 300 is still over 200 pounds. It is not my experience that people can bang out 3x12, or even 3x10 at that kind of weight without very long rest periods.
In my case, if I warm up well, I can get 13-14 reps at 225 on bench. But that isn't how I workout, going for broke on a set. The last time I tried 3x10, I did it at 175 and my sets were more like 10, 9, 4. And I was probably resting well over a minute between sets.
I've never recovered that quickly between sets to do the kind of work I hear people say they do. Anecdotally, I used to workout alongside an older guy who would do multiple sets of 10 at 225 on bench press, but I'd personally seen him go up over 405 on bench. He was probably working out at 55% of his ORM.
It seems like people would have different talents based on body type and muscle fiber type. I think that I have a little more power than most people, but worse endurance, and longer arms making my sets significantly more work.
Do you think there is anything to worrying about the relationship of workout weight to ORM weight, or do you think people should just use whatever weight / rep range gives a good workout and what will be will be?
Here is a men's health article which is perfectly in line with middling gym bro personal trainer speak.
--https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a31075907/one-rep-max/If you’re goal is strength and power, for example, you want to lift in the 2 to 6 rep range, which is typically 95 to 85 percent of your 1RM. For hypertrophy (8 to 12 reps per set), your sweet spot is 80 to 67 percent of your 1RM. And if you want to target your endurance-oriented type I fibers, load up with no more than 65 percent of your 1RM so you can bang out at least 15 reps per set.
Anyway, 67% of 300 is still over 200 pounds. It is not my experience that people can bang out 3x12, or even 3x10 at that kind of weight without very long rest periods.
In my case, if I warm up well, I can get 13-14 reps at 225 on bench. But that isn't how I workout, going for broke on a set. The last time I tried 3x10, I did it at 175 and my sets were more like 10, 9, 4. And I was probably resting well over a minute between sets.
I've never recovered that quickly between sets to do the kind of work I hear people say they do. Anecdotally, I used to workout alongside an older guy who would do multiple sets of 10 at 225 on bench press, but I'd personally seen him go up over 405 on bench. He was probably working out at 55% of his ORM.
It seems like people would have different talents based on body type and muscle fiber type. I think that I have a little more power than most people, but worse endurance, and longer arms making my sets significantly more work.
Do you think there is anything to worrying about the relationship of workout weight to ORM weight, or do you think people should just use whatever weight / rep range gives a good workout and what will be will be?