Lighter weight, more reps

[aronjrsmil]

I was lifting a lot last summer as part of my workout. I found that repping lighter weight with more reps significantly decreased my bf. I was not big, but I was more cut than I have ever been. This is the simple process I followed:

Each exercise:

rep 40-50% of your max for 2 minutes
follow this by repping 50 % for 1 minute
And finish with repping 70-80% for 30 secs.

I followed this up with about two hours of cardio ed( I swam for 2 hours)

I followed this with basic protein powder(muscle milk) and a tbsp of glutamine.

[IrishMuscle]

Well more reps at a lower weight may have played a part in losing the bf. but I would put it down to the 2 hours of cardio myself, I sometimes go high reps 15-20 but that's pretty rare as I like to stay in the 8-12 range..

[DanB]

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2 hours of cardio every day? thats mental unless your competitive swimmer, try fasted cardio 45mins 3 morning a week, hiit 20mins plus 5 warm up/down 3 times a week, good diet and boom look at them abs, i dont know what training like the above method would do to my body but im thinking it cant be good, burnt out in no time at all and lots of injurys, just my o2

[Rye_guy]

Well more reps at a lower weight may have played a part in losing the bf. but I would put it down to the 2 hours of cardio myself, I sometimes go high reps 15-20 but that's pretty rare as I like to stay in the 8-12 range..

yup. cadio and diet plan keep my bf down. I rarley go with high reps, im really more into the mid range to low rep range. depending on what im feelin. this has always been good for me.

to each their own though

[aportinastorm]

If your doing two hours of cardio a day id say that is definietly the number one contributor to the low body fat, with that much cardio your weight training has nothing to do with the low body fat. id say the two hours is way overkill but if you just really love what you do for cardio that much i envy you many lol

[rj2k10]

It may have played a part but as somebody said above, it was probably the fact you were sticking to a diet and the 2hrs of cardio (which is insane by the way lol). As above said, 30-45min fasted cardio/HIIT + weights = fat loss - 2hrs cardio (running I assume) will probably lose you muscle as well as fat.

[FireGuy]

It was definitely the cardio, even your weight training was 3 1/2 minutes per set, that is not weight training, it's essentially more cardio as well.