How many sets and excerises is good?

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Tony79

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How many sets is good, meaning is 3 sets, or 4 sets, or even 5 sets what I should be doing of each excerise?

- How many differnt excerises should I do for each body part on a given workout day. Currentlly I do a minimum of 4 different excersises.
 
once you hit about 20 reps, put some more weight on and/or thrown on another set i would say. im still learning though, anybdoy please correct if im wrong. just trying to help :D
 
goal is to tone up. Im pretty bulky now with some good muscle depth. I want it to get more toned or ripped effect not really anymore size.
 
higher rep numbers.. 14, 16, 18 around there, and corple's right, don't go over 20.. and 4 exercises per body part is good. but to 'tone up' you must watch what you eat, it's difficult (in my opinion impossible) to tone up by adjusting your work out alone..
 
been lifting for over 3 years, so im not new to this. Just wanted more info or advice from different people than the guys i talk to you at the gym.
 
If you're just after getting ripped and maintaining mass then the rep scheme isn't as important as your diet and cardio. The set/reps will depend on whether you want to get stronger while maintaining the same mass.
 
Man of Steel said:
If you're just after getting ripped and maintaining mass then the rep scheme isn't as important as your diet and cardio. The set/reps will depend on whether you want to get stronger while maintaining the same mass.
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Exactly, become stricter with your diet and cardio, however 12-20 reps is ideal for muscle endurance with little size gains.
 
What do you guys think aoout the idea of doing only one set of 8-15, but until muscular/elegant failure (you can barely do the last rep)?
 
one set of a certain amount of reps is fine. thats what i'm doing now because i havent trained implementing one set to failure in years. kinda fun but i'm just using it for last month and this month. next month will be something different.

variety is good, dont work one idea to death and run it dry. ;)
 
very true. also the body will become accustomed to it and progress will either slow down or stop.

just like life in general, have to keep moving forward :)
 
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