Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below I'll give my own personal stats to let you know what I'm talking about. Take my arms for example. I was doing the 5x5 with straight bar curls I worked up to 140 pounds over a 3 month period. I was also super setting weighted dips and worked those up to 60 pounds. Now that I've started my diet and I changed some of my lifts I'm curious if the new exercises and new weights being not as demanding will cause my muscle to shrink. I'm now doing standing ez bar curls with 105 for 5x5 and super setting them with skull crushers/french curls with 105 for 5x5. It's less weight overall but I'm keeping them very very strict, but the overall effort level isn't as high and the pump isn't as good. With chest I was doing flat barbell press with 245 at my best for 5x5, and now I'm doing incline barbell press with as of yesterday 180 for 5x5. Will doing a less strenuous workout cause the muscle to reduce in size and strength to the new required level? Should I go back to what I was doing since it seemed to produce better results?
Will lifting lighter weights cause you to lose lean mass??
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changing your exercises are ok, and wont cause you to lose muscle size. as long as the workouts are still hard, its ok to switch exercises. now if you back off of heavy training, just becuase your dieting, then use lighter weights will cause you to loose muscle, especially coupled with dieting. lift heavy, let the diet and cardio take care of the getting lean.
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Exodus said:
Agreed.
I am still lifting heavy and trying my hardest, but I have started off at lighter weights on the exercises that are new to me and to the 5x5 routine. The effort now isn't quite as intense as it was when I was at my best with some of the old exercises. I know that the intensity will increase rapidly and I'll be at my old intensity levels soon as my weights increase but I still don't like switching up it just makes me worry about losing size and strength.
size and strength come from straining hard. i do wsb, we switch our main exercise every 1-3 weeks....... so we do somehting similar, but different, so our bodys are still straining in somewhat the same posistion, so our strength never changes.
if i do 3 weeks going to a 1 rpm with floor press. then i change to 3 weeks of 3 board press, then i change to db's for max reps. when that 9 weeks is over, i go back to the floor press, and im just as strong, or stronger than i was the first time.
it make take a week getting used to the movement, but then im back in business.
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if i do 3 weeks going to a 1 rpm with floor press. then i change to 3 weeks of 3 board press, then i change to db's for max reps. when that 9 weeks is over, i go back to the floor press, and im just as strong, or stronger than i was the first time.
it make take a week getting used to the movement, but then im back in business.
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