6 Rules for Determining The Weight to Use in Your Workouts

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How much weight should you be lifting?! That is the ultimate question, am I right? Seriously, this is one of the most frequently asked questions I get and that's why I've decided to dedicate an entire podcast episode to the topic. Not only am I going to explain how much weight you should begin with if you are new to working out, but explain how to know when you need to move up in weight, how you should constantly be monitoring if you need to move up in weight, why it's important to continue lifting heavier weights, and how to know if you are lifting TOO heavy of weights.

Things I discuss:

Rule #1: Start light and work your way up

Rule #2: You should never compromise form.

Rule #3: The goal is to be able to perform 70-90% of the movements with ease

Rule #4: If you can't perform 8 reps, you're trying to lift too heavy. If you can easily perform 12 reps, you're lifting too light

Rule #5: Use progressive overload

Rule #6: You need to get uncomfortable

Link mentioned in this episode:

Episode 13: How Much Weight Should I be Lifting?

Episode 68: Getting Off Your Fitness Plateau with Progressive Overload https://www.movementwithjulie.com/

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0:00.0	Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie
0:04.8	Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a
0:10.3	dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self.
0:18.0	Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it let's go.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Embrace Real Podcast. I am so pumped about today's episode. I feel like I say that every time but you guys
0:34.4	this is something that so many people ask me and so I'm just creating these
0:40.1	podcasts so that I can continue to direct people in hopes that this helps you in some
0:45.1	way shape or form in your health and fitness journey.
0:47.8	So today's topic we're talking about six rules for determining the weight to use in your workout. So how much weight
0:54.6	should you be lifting? That is truly the ultimate question. Seriously, this is one of my
0:59.6	most frequently asked questions that I get and so that's why I decided to do an entire
1:03.6	podcast episode on this topic alone. Not only am I going to talk about and
1:08.7	explain how much weight you should begin with if you're new to working out or if you're just coming back but I'm also going to
1:14.7	explain kind of when to know to move up and wait because it's really important that you're constantly
1:20.0	monitoring this aspect of your journey and also why it's important to
1:24.8	continue lifting heavier weights right and know also which a part of you
1:30.2	continuing to lift heavy weights is also kind of when to know if you're
1:34.4	lifting too heavy of a weight. So that is what I'm going to be diving into in today's
1:39.4	episode. Before I dive in I wanted to share this review it comes from Annie K
1:44.1	620 she gave a five-star review and said soul sister a Julie I love you so much
1:49.2	I am blessed to have found your podcast and it has been wonderful listening to
1:52.3	someone whose journey in faith and it has been wonderful listening to someone whose journey in faith and
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