How fast do you increase weight in your sets?

[Pharm_Fed]

How rapidly do you move up in weight for a particular exercise and how much weight do you add when you move up?

Say on week 1 you are doing laterals raises with 50 lbs. How long would you stay there before moving up and would you jump to 55 lbs, 60lbs, etc?

For me it varies depending on the exercise as to how much I go up and how often. Big muscles exercises like leg extensions I can sometimes jump up 20-25 lbs. I also like to do it gradually, say Week 1-4 sets@200 lbs, Week2-3 sets@200 and 1 set@220, Week 3-2 sets@200 and 1 set@220 and 1 set@230, etc. You get the point.

Sometimes I'll go down in weight one week and then shock that muscle the next week with something super heavy to try and spur growth.

How do you guys do it?

 

[Presser]

hMM NOT A BAD QUESTION....I HAVENT REALY UPPED MY WEIGHT WEEK BY WEEK IN A LONG TIME, I LIFT TO FAILURE FOR EVERY SET THOUGH

 

[chewiniron]

ya i just usally lift till failure as well....but makes me think of the old days when i use to do pyramid sets....anyone else do thoes

 

[Crazymank]

I just put 45s on till i cant keep going....

 

[Get_Swole]

depends on the exercise. On lat raises i never go above 30 i never need too. I used to go heavy and light both i noticed that neither one effects my growth much, I do alot of drop sets on shoulders 30's down to 10's etc. I go completely strict on form on shoulders so i dont need that much weight. On anything else usually 5 ilbs every other week if im at my strongest but right now weight is going up faster.

 

[Spiderman]

No idea it's been so long bro...which is sad. Been out of the gym due to injuries and school for the past year, well up until 2 weeks ago. So things are picking up really fast for me right now, but I'm trying to take it a bit easy. I'm starting my log book next week (Assassin 21 from mikeswift, lol) and I'll let you all know more about it when I get a good month of them logged.

But it's pretty damn amazing how good you feel after just a couple of weeks getting back into it. And I can already tell a difference...nowhere near where I used to be, but it's encouraging to see even a little.

 

[bigheinz]

Lets say you are doing dumbbell lat raises with 50 pounds for 8 reps, and the 7th and 8th rep where failure, so you need a help from your training partner to get to 10 reps.
In a couple of weeks you should be able to do 10 and 2 assisted reps for a total of 12, so the next time you do the same exercise you move up to 60 pound dumbbells so you will do about 6 reps and 2 assisted reps and you will pass the same process again.
Dont cheat yourself, always perform a good form, a little cheating is allowed, you know what i am talking about.

If you dont have a trainer partner, you use the VICTOR MUNOZ'S OWN SYSTEM :
Lets say you get to 8 reps with 50 pounds, you rest 10 seconds and you do 2 more, you rest 10 more seconds and you do 2 more till you get to the 12 reps.
This way you push yourself to create strengh and muscle for the next time you do the exercise you should be able to do more so one day you should be able to increase the weight.
I do train myself most of the times, i dont like training partners because it is very difficult to schedule with my job or his job so i dont like people coming late and stuff after you plan your meals and the guy shows 45 minutes late or something.

The Victor Munoz Own Method is the best.

 

[saudades]

That's pretty much the same kind of process I use. If I can only do 8 reps for a certain weight, I'll try to do at least 9 if not 10 reps next time, then the next time after that, I increase the weight and start again. I suppose how fast you do it is really determined by your own diet, recovery, and progress. No one is the same. AAS helps the recovery part happen more quickly, but the whole overall process is still limited by the other factors which is why AAS is not the magic bullet some think it is.