Weight lifting strategy? Please help

[MetalVomit]

Fewer weights, more frequent reps


or


more weight, less frequen reps?

[Mick Hucknall]

Depends, from what I've heard if you want to bulk up you lift high weights with low reps , but if you wanna gain lean muscle and muscle endurance then you lift low weights with high reps

[:Bobby:]

maximal strenght : 1 - 6 reps
mass : 6 - 15 reps
endurance : 15 - ... reps

[mic573]

Depends, from what I've heard if you want to bulk up you lift high weights with low reps

That's not true. Lifting heavy doesn't make you bulk up. It helps you gain max strength.

[PunchDrunk]

Depends, from what I've heard if you want to bulk up you lift high weights with low reps , but if you wanna gain lean muscle and muscle endurance then you lift low weights with high reps

What mic573 said!

Besides that, what is the difference between bulking and gaining lean muscle? Gaining muscle IS bulking. "lean muscle" just means no fat. Heavy weight/low reps does NOT make you gain fat!

Anyway Bobby pretty much outlined it. Just wanted to point out that a few of the things you said are contradictory. You know, like saying "light black"

[tebe6sm]

yeah, lifting weights will not make you gain muscle unless you follow a diet in which you eat more calories than you burn. As for lifting weights, I'd do both, both heavy with low reps and low with many reps. This way, as said before, you work both your limit strength and endurance strength.

[potatoes]

The best thing you can say about weight lifting is:



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[MetalVomit]

The best thing you can say about weight lifting is:



[IMG]http://www.oyemag.com/images/bull****.jpg[/IMG]

Weightlifting is bull****?

[hemichromis]

strength and muscle go hand in hand if you increase strength there will usually be a corresponding increase in muscle size, but following a bodybuilding weightlifting regime willl gain you lots of muscular stamina and muscle size, i believe low reps are the way to go: 2-6 for shoulders and arms 5-9 for back(lats traps etc) and 15-20 for legs

[:Bobby:]

Actually that is incorrect. The small muscle groups react better to a higher number of reps, basically. So bizeps and triceps for instance should be worked in the 10-15 rep range.