Bad Advice About Higher Reps

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Mark Rippetoe

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🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Bad advice about higher reps. As we get older, many of us go to the doctor more than we should.
0:09.5	We ask the doctor about things doctors don't really know much about, like diet and exercise.
0:17.4	Doctors, having had no institutional training in diet and exercise, while at the same time
0:24.0	feelings though they must maintain their authority over all things physical, most usually
0:31.8	provide advice about these things they don't know anything about anyway.
0:43.6	They advise you to eat less fat and go walking every once in a while.
0:52.1	If you ask about strength training, since you've heard that it was a good idea and you know that walking is not strength training,
0:57.4	well, their advice will be to just lift lighter weights and do more reps. Lighter weights and higher reps. That's the ticket, right? Same effect, less risk,
1:06.1	lighter is safer, and more reps make up for the lighter weight, right?
1:17.3	Well, it could be that doctors tell older people to just lift lighter weights because they have a genuine interest in not hurting older people,
1:21.9	and they perceive that heavier weight is more dangerous than lighter weight.
1:30.3	If they didn't tell this to everybody else too, I might believe that this was their intent. Hell, if they didn't tell this to everybody,
1:38.3	I wouldn't be talking to you about it right now. You have never read an article that I have written about diet because that is not my
1:49.5	field of either expertise, experience, or interest. I know something about it, most likely more than your
1:59.2	doctor, but I reserve my public opinions on things to that which I
2:04.8	am qualified to opine. When your doctor tells you to just use lighter weights and higher reps,
2:13.7	he is wrong. Like when I refrain from writing about brain surgery, he should refrain from giving
2:22.4	this advice about exercise. And here's why. Strength, as I have said many times, is merely the
2:31.9	production of force by your muscles.
2:35.0	The more weight you lift, the more force you have produced.
2:41.0	Since you can't lift as much, 10 times as you can five times,
2:49.0	five reps allows you to use a heavier weight than 10 reps does.
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