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Dayummm😅😅pic of my arm at beginning of workout journey in the comments
59 upvotes, 15 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Gym. "Dayummm😅😅pic of my arm at beginning of workout journey in the comments"
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Anonymous 5w

Night and day

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Anonymous 5w

Go ahead and give me that workout routine

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Anonymous 5w

Re: your workouts: can I give you a tip? I see you have Nx8 and Nx10 for all your workouts There's no specific number of reps you need to do for a given muscle; every muscle responds to failure the same way. If you just hit failure or near failure in as few reps as possible, you don't have to worry about hitting 8 or hitting 10 for a particular muscle :) Just try to do at least 5 reps of anything and if you can do more than 8, raise the weight

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Anonymous 5w

That’s the workout:) ignore the numbers that’s the weight I do!

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Anonymous 5w

Thank you for the advice! I actually do train till failure I added the reps for the person who commented cause it seemed like they may be a beginner and I felt like when I started out it helped to aim for a certain rep count! But I totally agree, I definitely try to up my weight once u can easily hit 8-10 reps with a weight to make sure I’m doing progressive overload ☺️

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Patience and consistency and progressive overload!!! All boring answers but it’s the only way to see progress especially putting on upper body muscle as a girl is so so hard

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

I js wanna be a muscle mommy 😔

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Shoulder press #35 1x8 // #40 3x7-8 Lat pull down #100 x1x7ish // #90x3x8ish SA Cable row #45 each side 1x10// #55 3x8 SA Lateral raises #15 4x10 Bicep curls #25 4x8// single arm Tricep push down superset #35//#25 x4x8 Rear delt flies #55 4x8ish

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

This is simpler to me, as someone who used to plan my workouts the same way you are What you're doing is clearly working ofc so feel free to ignore. Congrats on the sick progress :)

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

I do have a question tho! If you hit only 5 reps with a really heavy weight do you then drop down to a lighter weight in that same set to hit more reps? Or do you just stick to the 5 reps and call that a set for itself? Cause sometimes I can do heavier but can only do 5-6 reps but then I feel like it’s not enough idk!

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

I could tell you were a pro 😎

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

5 is plenty in my book, honestly I'd be okay with 4 if they were all good reps and I can do 8+ of the next weight down. If you can do 5 solid reps you're good, assuming you can do 8+ of the previous weight

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Rule of thumb is to shoot for 4-8 really good reps, and adjust the weight if your reps fall outside of that range. But like I said I shoot for at least 5 unless I can do way too many of the previous weight. Only an issue with things like preacher curl bars where they don't have 5lb increments

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Another reason not to do that: if you've hit failure, that's all you need to do. You don't need to go past failure by lowering the weight, which will just introduce extra fatigue and make your next set harder, and might actually lower the overall stimulus you get from that workout

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