{"id":1317,"date":"2021-05-29T01:41:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T01:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftofmanhood.com\/\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2021-05-29T01:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T01:41:22","slug":"should-you-lift-heavy-or-light-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftofmanhood.com\/should-you-lift-heavy-or-light-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Lift Heavy Or Light First?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Besides the most common question that people ask of whether or not you should be lifting light or heavyweight, the next question after that is typical, which you should do first. Well, there are many factors to consider, so let’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless you are doing warmups that are not to failure or performing a specific exercise for a particular reason, you should always opt to perform exercises with heavier weight first. This will allow you to still have enough energy left to perform any endurance exercises or repetitions. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article will cover the various aspects of heavyweight and lightweight, considering how the muscles respond accordingly. It will also look at how you should be lifting according to your goals, such as strength, muscle size, toning, and endurance, and focusing on aspects that most individuals who train do not consider. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lifting heavy and light overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fitness industry is booming, being one of the largest industries in the world and growing at an annual rate of 8.7% per year<\/a> based on statistics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means thousands of people a year decide that they want to be healthier and get into shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first questions I have always been asked by clients I trained is how much weight they should lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding exercise, the individual, and their goals, the answer is never as straightforward as you may think and will vary even throughout their training regiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The general aspect that you have to understand before we take a deep dive into the fundamentals of muscle with regards to heavy and light lifting is that heavy lifting is primarily used to increase muscle mass and strength. In contrast, light lifting is used for toning and increasing endurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Understanding how muscles grow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The process whereby muscles break down and grow due to the continuous challenge of various resistance levels or weights is known as muscle hypertrophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hypertrophy occurs when the muscle fibers sustain damage (tear) or get injured. When the muscles are torn, the body helps to rebuild them and fuses them back together, making them thicker and stronger. This essentially increases the muscle mass and size.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a bit of common logic, we can assume that the heavier the weight is, the more likely we are to tear more muscle and tear muscle more effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please consider that using a weight that is too heavy will injure you, and that is not what we are trying to do. We are trying to break the muscle down enough to grow stronger and bigger without sustaining injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, note that using lightweight will also accomplish this, just not to the degree that heavier weight will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going into depth about muscle hypertrophy, fast and slow-twitch muscle fibers, and a percentage of your 1 rep max is a little beyond the scope of this article and not really needed to understand whether or not you should be lifting heavy or light first. However, take a look at this video here, where the concept of heavyweight versus lightweight is explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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