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ERF 642: Lifting Heavy Without A Spotter, Staying Disciplined, Low Reps Vs High Reps

Eric Roberts Fitness

Eric Roberts Fitness

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0

What is going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the aircraft's fitness podcast. Hope you're having an incredible day thus far or morning or night or whatever you listen to this.

0:19.2

We've got a Q&A today.

0:20.4

I got some good questions pulled up a good mix of mindset stuff a good mix

0:25.4

of training stuff nutrition stuff discipline all the good stuff we got

0:30.0

coming up today so we're just gonna dive into it. The first question is coming from

0:34.0

Jackie Tan, not Jackie Chan, but Jackie Tan, 0-8.05, does it matter if I use 3 to 8 reps or 6 to 10 reps or I'm sorry does it matter if I use 3 to 8 reps or 6 to 10 reps for training or I'm fine as long as I train close to failure?

0:55.0

A phenomenal question. Let's talk about it.

0:57.0

So you might have heard this before and we can just kind of, know I'm gonna hit on this riff on this

1:03.9

a little bit so stick with me you've probably heard before you know one to five

1:07.6

reps is really like strength you get stronger in one to five reps.

1:13.0

Six to 12 reps is more of what we call hyperchophy,

1:17.0

which is just more, you know, muscle building, right?

1:20.0

And then 12 to 20 plus reps, that's more of the endurance.

1:25.0

You know, if you do that many reps, you're going more for like muscular endurance,

1:29.6

you know, cardiovascular, that sort of stuff. To a degree this holds true. Now I will say, when it comes to

1:37.4

building muscle, because we have to define the goal. What is your goal here?

1:42.9

Is your goal to build muscles?

1:44.0

Is your goal to get stronger?

1:45.1

What's the goal?

1:46.0

So when it comes to building muscle,

1:48.4

technically speaking, you can build muscle

1:51.2

in any rep range, so as long as you are pushing yourself close to

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