Choosing the weight

[Elie]

Hello fellas! I got a quick question regarding the starting weight I’d need to choose on each exercise. Should I go by trial and error and figure out which weight is best for me and continue progressively with it until I feel like I can increase it? Or is these a « rule of thumb » that I can follow?

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

No specific “rule of thumb”.
Try 1 -2 feeder sets / warup sets to “search your weight” for your rep range and go from there. I prefer to have week 1 as a set point in my program / logbook and progress from there. Specially when you are a beginner of less experienced trainee.

Remember progress can be made from reps, weight or form. (Don’t only focus on weight increases, form or depth is also a factor of progress)

Hope this covers your question a bit?

[Elie]

100% does! Also does it automatically log everything i do so I can keep in mind what I’ve already done? (Without an app I’d simply keep a hand written notebook)

On a separate note thank you for taking the time to enlighten me, i just downloaded the app

[Anonymous]

Elie wrote:

100% does! Also does it automatically log everything i do so I can keep in mind what I’ve already done? (Without an app I’d simply keep a hand written notebook)
On a separate note thank you for taking the time to enlighten me, i just downloaded the app

Yes it will track for you. So when you do the exercise next time it will have the last weight and reps you did.

[Elie]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes it will track for you. So when you do the exercise next time it will have the last weight and reps you did.

Dope, thanks chris

[Joe]

[Joe]

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[Elie]

Perfect thank you for the specifications Joe! I’ll get on with it then! I’ll hit those videos aswell to get a deeper understanding

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