high or low reps?

[eggnite]

Hi, I want to get stronger, but what I want more is to get bigger muscles. For this should I do 3 sets 20-25 reps of lighter weights, or should I do 3 sets and 8-12 reps of heavy weights? Which is good for what?

[baaaaaaaaaaaam]

15+ reps are endurance

6-12 range is for building muscle

[lord_hope]

Hi, I want to get stronger, but what I want more is to get bigger muscles. For this should I do 3 sets 20-25 reps of lighter weights, or should I do 3 sets and 8-12 reps of heavy weights? Which is good for what?

u cd either do what i do.

2 sets of 8, and then a last set for 3-5 and get a partner to assist u to do a further few forced reps. good system for size gains and moderate to good strength gains.

alternativesly u cd do some form of periodization.

for 4 weeks train for hypertrophy, then for 2 weeks train for strength.

[eggnite]

Thanks, I guess Ill stick to doing low reps for now.

[Ricky_k]

im not trying to be rude but at the top of the screen where it says bodybulding.com forums there is a link under it "1000's of articles" thats where you can get the answer for such a common and simple question but 8-12 is the way to go after uve dont ur warm up reps of say 20

[Anatoliy]

throw in some negatives occasionally, i find that they help me quite a bit, esspecially on tricep dips, and well, many other excercises.

[GaluxV]

Low reps are for strength, medium reps are for muscle size and high reps are for endurance.
~Hope that helps

[Mestizo]

Low reps are for strength, medium reps are for muscle size and high reps are for endurance.
~Hope that helps

Hooray...someone got it right! Low reps (6-8) build strength, medium reps (10-12) build mass and high reps (over 12 build endurance).

For every exercise except for some calf and tricep work, I do 5 sets of 12 reps using the same weight consistently for strictly mass building.