S3 EP15: How To Choose Weight For Your Workout
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What do you know about working sets? What’s the difference between a warm-up set and a working set? How long are you supposed to rest in between sets? These are some of the questions that we’re going to answer in today’s episode. Listen in to hear more practical workout advice like working sets, the need for both physical and mental rest, and when you should know that it’s time to move on.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- The disconnect between having a routine, but keeping it fun and making gains
- Adjusting your sets
- Quality gym time versus large amounts of time
- Resting before coming back to weights
- Which weights to choose and where to start
- How much time to rest between working sets
- Warmup sets vs. working sets
- Why you need mental rest between sets as well as physical rest
- Preparing yourself for a skill during your workout
- How weight suggestions tell you how light or heavy a workout will be
- How you know when it’s time to move on
- The nosedive that come when you move up in weights
- Meeting your body where it is
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- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
- Our Fitness Blog.
- Behind the scenes at CVG.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | No, but I think that we need to definitely keep in mind that fitness is not osmosis. |
| 0:04.8 | You don't just hang around the weights and get for the longer amount of time you hang around |
| 0:09.2 | that fitness is absorbed. |
| 0:10.8 | Because we often hear from women, well, I have this friend and they spend two and a half |
| 0:16.0 | hours at the gym and I just feel like that they must be really fit. |
| 0:20.9 | Amount of time in the gym does not equate to fitness. |
| 0:24.8 | Okay, what we're looking at, just like everything else in your life, it's not the amount |
| 0:29.3 | of time, it's the quality. |
| 0:34.0 | The big question is this. |
| 0:46.3 | In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:53.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 0:56.0 | we have the answers to how to make working out |
| 0:59.0 | and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:02.0 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | Well, hello and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:18.9 | I thought it. I really felt it. |
| 1:22.7 | Quarantine Thick. I really did feel the thick Syses Save lives in that intro. I've been thinking about it lately. |
| 1:32.8 | Get it, girl. I just love it. I love it every day. Love it for the past two years. I love it for the next five. |
| 1:42.6 | So, have you been starting any projects? I told you, I remember saying at the beginning |
| 1:49.0 | of the, of the apocalypse that I was like, oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I'm getting all this |
| 1:55.6 | projects down and I haven't made me to get done. And then like it was like flat line. Like I I started strong with a lot of |
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