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Changing Reps, by Paul A Marsland

Rather than focus purely on reps, you should consider the length of time to which you are loading your muscles. This concept is normally called Time Under Load or Time Under Tension. It is generally regarded that for anaerobic purposes ( the building of size & strength) an upper limit of 120 seconds is best, as if one goes over this time scale, the exercise is more likely to take on an aerobic nature.

What also needs to be addressed is that of rep cadence, as if one is using a rep cadence of 5/5 for example this would alter the amount of reps required for the same time load.
e.g. 5/5 x 6 reps = 60 seconds of load.
2/4 x 6 reps = 36 seconds of load.

Paul A Marsland