Hvy Weight vs Light Weights????

[mercy]

Hi....
If you are looking for a leaner more define look...Do you go with Light weights more rep or does Heavier weight fewer reps do the trick...I have been told that Heavier weights make you look bulkier and that is not the look I want. I have also been told that Heavier weights help you burn the fat around the muscle so that the muscle is more define...
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!
Mercy

 

[boscoe wilson]

Go heavy or go home.

 

[boscoe wilson]

Jk.

 

[Griz1]

Mercy,

If you have been told "heavier weights make you look bulkier" you have been told wrong (to a certain extent anyway).

Go into a "hardcore gym" and announce that statement out loud. You'll have a whole bunch of guys (and gals) booing and hissing you. And that pain in your head will be a 45lb plate hitting you cause someone whipped it at you.

If going heavy simply made you look bulkier (that easy huh?) I don't think anyone would be BUSTING THEIR ASS trying to put on lean body mass.

Without drugs, if you want to get big and bulky by doing heavy weights, believe me you are in for a very long haul indeed!

Can you tell how tired I am of this idiotic myth? Go Heavy and lose body fat and you will look trim, fit, and cut. Go heavy for a long time (years), eat like a horse, eat clean, then cut down and yes, you will likely look "bulky". Add drugs and it will go alot faster.

Go light and waste your time in the gym...feeding the myth once again... Good exersise in general, but very little gains in any direction.

Sorry if I sound harsh, I don't mean to be.

 

[boscoe wilson]

"Can you tell how tired I am of this idiotic myth? Go Heavy and lose body fat and you will look trim, fit, and cut. Go heavy for a long time (years), eat like a horse, eat clean, then cut down and yes, you will likely look "bulky". Add drugs and it will go alot faster"

This is so true!

 

[mrstamiina]

Don't waste your time if you're going to go lite.

Don't waste my time and everybody elses in the gym that is waiting for the bench you are using, lifting lite.

And don't complain when you get know results after reading these messages and you still lift lite.


I'm sorry but I just got back from the gym and I asked one of the ladies how long she was going to be on the bench? She said " about 20 minutes or so I'm doing 30/30 " Whats that?
"30 reps/ 30 sets, I'm trying to lose weight and get slim."

What a F--kin WASTE OF TIME!

Some woman are so stupid.

 

[lucidblue]

Light weights never did much of anything for me. Heavier has made a huge difference.

 

[boscoe wilson]

Don't waste your time if you're going to go lite.

Don't waste my time and everybody elses in the gym that is waiting for the bench you are using, lifting lite.

And don't complain when you get know results after reading these messages and you still lift lite.


I'm sorry but I just got back from the gym and I asked one of the ladies how long she was going to be on the bench? She said " about 20 minutes or so I'm doing 30/30 " Whats that?
"30 reps/ 30 sets, I'm trying to lose weight and get slim."

What a F--kin WASTE OF TIME!

Some woman are so stupid.

Yesterday I saw a girl dancing with 5lb dumbells in front of one of the freeweight mirrors with headphones on. I workout in a large gym, but it is a tennis club so there is minimal freeweight room...I felt like telling her to do that shit somewhere else, but I'm not rude.

 

[PBR]

I was going to RANT...you guys saved me...thanks...lucid the avatar is nirvana....30 sets of 30...??? I'll get right on that...F^%$#@*&!!!!!!!

 

[boscoe wilson]

My goal is to up my weight by at least 5lbs/week on as many things as possible. Legs are different...I'm able to go up in my press by 10 plus lbs/week...and Squats some weeks too...currently squatting 260 for 3 sets of 8-10, but want to be up to 300 within a month...The only body part that is slow to show strength progress is usually my bi-ceps...I go up like once a month I think.