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I heard someone at the gym yesterday claim that higher reps/lighter weights “tone” and that lower reps/heavier weights help you “fill in.” I legit had to cover my ears
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Anonymous 3w

Did he also tell you this 3 minute core exercise will give you abs in weeks?

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Anonymous 3w

bro is eliminating the competition 💔

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Anonymous 3w

As someone who is in the learning phase: Isn’t it just lifting to failure and dieting?

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Anonymous 3w

Straight ragebait

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

And close to failure, going to failure on every set can be very fatiguing, thats why I try going to failure on my last sets of each exercise

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

You can build muscle anywhere in the 3-30 rep range. Unless you’re training for endurance and want to fatigue yourself and feel the burn, most people don’t go past 15 reps. What matters more than rep range is effort and intensity. Like training close to or to failure on your sets. Not every single one tho, cuz that’ll build up fatigue and make it harder to recover.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3w

Also you can’t “tone” a muscle, you can either build it via hypertrophy or shrink it through atrophy. To be toned is to have a decent amount of muscle mass with a low body fat %. So to be toned, then, you need muscle and you need to build it. And you can build it in a variety of rep ranges. Not just light weight high reps.

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