Your muscles are stupid.
They don’t know numbers. They don’t know what weight they’re lifting and they don’t care.
Do you ever get frustrated that you can’t lift the same weights when you go to a different gym or use a different brand of machines?
It’s ok. It doesn’t matter. The environment has changed. Maybe the machine have a different resistance profile, different angles, different pulley systems.
Even free weights are not the same (except calibrated olympic plates).
Your muscles ONLY know STIMULUS. They can’t see the weight you’re lifting.
Instead of being fixated on the weights or reps, plan the level of intensity or number or reps left to failure and let that be your indicator.
Examples:
⁃ RPE (rate of perceived effort) - Aim to finish your top sets at 7-8 RPE.
⁃ RIR (reps in reserve) - The opposite of RPE. Aim to leave 1 or 2 reps in reserve.
⁃ Failure - Aim to take one set to technical failure.
Those can be your measures and indicators of progress.
You’ll see, it will be freeing to not be rigidly attached to weights, and know you’re progressing anyway.
What do you use in your training? RPE, RIR, something else?
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