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there isn't an exact formula for success at all with workouts.
what i was saying is exactly what colstreamer brung up.. you want to make sure you get a nice pump and rip up those muscle fibers.. thats the whole point of working out to begin with. rip them up, send blood and nitrogen into the muscle.. then have the muscle repair itself and get stronger.
sometimes when i take a friend with me to the gym and they are pretty much newbs they will workout .. start feeling the burn and stop their set. they will tell me "okay i feel the burn" then they will just stop. so my point was you should keep going until you get close to failure, really rip up those muscle fibers and don't just give up because it hurts.. keep breathing and deal with the pain.. you will eventually learn to love that feeling. now if you are doing tiny weight where you don't feel anything then you should up your weight.. that was my point, didn't mean to confuse you. so if you aren't feeling a good burn after 10 reps then you should up your weight. push your body to grow.
10-15 reps is a bit much. but since your goals are for that fitness model look that probably is the direction you want to go. with your compound movements you probably want to go 8-10 reps.. with your isolation like with calf routines you wan tto go higher.. i will rip my calves up with 20-30 reps even.. get a really big burn in there .. you want a fast workout, taking no more than a minute between sets. and high volume. keeps your heart rate up the whole way. now a powerlifter is gonna take more time in between sets cause he is more worried about strength and doesn't care about keeping HR up the whole time. a regular bodybuilder will do 5X5's... but your goals are very different here
if you feel that soreness in there the next day then you know you accomplished your goal of ripping up the muscle fibers. and i would say during your workout you should be breaking a sweat since you are doing a fast workout since your goals are the fitness model look
what i was saying is exactly what colstreamer brung up.. you want to make sure you get a nice pump and rip up those muscle fibers.. thats the whole point of working out to begin with. rip them up, send blood and nitrogen into the muscle.. then have the muscle repair itself and get stronger.
sometimes when i take a friend with me to the gym and they are pretty much newbs they will workout .. start feeling the burn and stop their set. they will tell me "okay i feel the burn" then they will just stop. so my point was you should keep going until you get close to failure, really rip up those muscle fibers and don't just give up because it hurts.. keep breathing and deal with the pain.. you will eventually learn to love that feeling. now if you are doing tiny weight where you don't feel anything then you should up your weight.. that was my point, didn't mean to confuse you. so if you aren't feeling a good burn after 10 reps then you should up your weight. push your body to grow.
10-15 reps is a bit much. but since your goals are for that fitness model look that probably is the direction you want to go. with your compound movements you probably want to go 8-10 reps.. with your isolation like with calf routines you wan tto go higher.. i will rip my calves up with 20-30 reps even.. get a really big burn in there .. you want a fast workout, taking no more than a minute between sets. and high volume. keeps your heart rate up the whole way. now a powerlifter is gonna take more time in between sets cause he is more worried about strength and doesn't care about keeping HR up the whole time. a regular bodybuilder will do 5X5's... but your goals are very different here
if you feel that soreness in there the next day then you know you accomplished your goal of ripping up the muscle fibers. and i would say during your workout you should be breaking a sweat since you are doing a fast workout since your goals are the fitness model look
