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For years now we’ve been hearing people say if you want to bulk up, increase weight and reduce reps; and if you want to get lean to reduce weight and up the reps. Like a lot of fitness generalizations, this information is accurate, but incomplete. Everone reponds different to a exercise program.

It’s true that lifting heavy weights with fewer reps breaks down muscle and causes it to grow back larger and more robust. Similarly, lower weights that are lifted repeatedly exhaust the muscle, breaking it down in smaller degrees, causing it to grow back stronger, but not necessarily larger.

information most people are missing are the ways in which muscle is built that has nothing to do with lifting weights. For instance, balance exercises engage muscles for extended periods of time, often rapidly contracting and releasing fibers dozens of times a minute as the body works to stabilize itself. And although you can work out on a balance board, there are elements of balance and stability training in much of what we do daily.

Climbing stairs, for example, can be a balance-building activity when done without holding on to handrails. Riding a bike requires balance and stability that most of us take for granted once we’ve learned… as does swimming. These kinds of exercises can all build long, lean muscle the same way multiple reps at low weight can. Doing the best bodyweight exercises is a great way to maintain the balance that you need.

It is really up to you to decide what is going to work the ebst for you in the long run.

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