Fitness Land

One of the newest adjustments to my workout, is altenating between heavy weight weeks and high rep weeks. I do three weeks of each. Doing higher reps I make a point to use the most weight that I can and still do 12-15 reps. I think the key to these weeks is to make sure to increase the weight just like on heavier days. People tend to think that just because it is a high rep day it should be easier; that's just not the case if you continue to increase your weight. On the heavy weeks, I will do 6-8 reps on every exercise. Same rules apply to increasing weight as you go.

Since I have been doing this for the past several months, I have gained some weight. I am at least just as lean if not more so. There is a variation of this from Men's health doing two or three weeks of three different numbers of reps with the other weeks being 8-10. I haven't tried this yet.