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Thread: Why do low reps build strength?

post 1649469463 10-23-2021, 04:12 AM
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Why do low reps build strength?

It’s commonly known that using heavy weight (low reps) builds more strength than using light weight (high reps), but why?

Say for example, you perform pushups with a 50kg backpack for a maximum of 5 reps.

Your brain sends a signal to your muscles to fight the resistance by giving you neurological advantages such as increasing the amount of muscle fibres being recruited. This results in strength gains.

But if you do the same exercise, but without a backpack (just body weight), then say by the time you reach 60 reps, your fatigue and have to fight the resistance to do your last rep.

Isn’t the resistance essentially the same for the last rep? Wouldn’t your brain just send the same signal to your muscles as it did in the first example?

Does muscular fatigue have anything to do with it?
post 1649469993 10-23-2021, 04:40 AM
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There's different types of muscle fibers that get activated depending on the type of work you perform.
post 1649474363 10-23-2021, 08:07 AM
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Because you’re lifting heavier weights therefore forcing your muscles to adapt to a heavier weight.
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low reps build strength and muscle it's not like you can do just low reps and build only strength and do high reps and build only muscle.
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post 1649474643 10-23-2021, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted By messomi⏩
low reps build strength and muscle it's not like you can do just low reps and build only strength and do high reps and build only muscle.
I always wonder why there’s those twinks deadlifting 700 or benching 405 though.
post 1649475123 10-23-2021, 08:32 AM
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People give you less leeway and are quicker to argue with you etc and that builds character.

With high reps, people want you to rep them and don’t want to be negged by you, so you get preferential treatment in that way
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Originally Posted By Destor⏩
People give you less leeway and are quicker to argue with you etc and that builds character.

With high reps, people want you to rep them and don’t want to be negged by you, so you get preferential treatment in that way
post 1649475573 10-23-2021, 08:43 AM
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high reps is what builds insane fizeeks, as long as you're using the right weight and intesnty. Lol if any of your sets are under 15 reps. There is a reason you see no one with a muscular body with 5x5
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Originally Posted By EnochsProphecy⏩
Because applying strength is a skill. Learning to recruit all your muscle fibers in an efficient manner doesn't come naturally for most. You're also training your body in a way to be more explosive in those movements.
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not many people in the gym are training with explosive strength, they are just going through the repetitions of movement
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post 1649501433 10-23-2021, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
It doesn't make much of a difference for a natural IMO.

If you took the same guy and trained in high rep vs low rep, assuming he had the same muscle in both situations, maybe he's say maxing out for deadlift at 405 for high rep and 455 for low rep. The thing is though if that guy in the high rep situation went on a 2 month strength training cycle, he'd be at 455 with no problem. That little bit of extra strength is just skill/CNS adaption which can be quickly developed.

If there are any dramatic visual differences, I think that's purely from bodybuilding oriented lifters focusing more on upper body, not from high rep vs low rep.
I think I agree with you
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It's a lie, high reps builds strength and muscle faster
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post 1649501953 10-23-2021, 05:30 PM
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Fukkin lol OP, have you not heard?? There is a legal steroid turning men into beasts without lifting.
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Originally Posted By imbored17⏩
Fukkin lol OP, have you not heard?? There is a legal steroid turning men into beasts without lifting.
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What has already been said + CNS (skill) work from heavier lifts
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