Curious???How much weight do all of you use?

[nurse34]

I have been hearing everywhere how important it is to use weights while exercising to achieve the "melting inches effect". I believe for this to be quite true. I am experiencing this for the first time with cathe's tapes and I have seen others as well. Just curious to all cathe fans how much weight do you use for each body part to achieve your desired weight loss. I know everyone is different, but I just curious to find out.I am not even close to cathe weights yet, but it is my goal to get there!!Thanks for replying.

-Lisa

 

[pippa]

Honestly, I usually stay in the 3-8 lb. range. I know that may seem small but I build muscle very easily(especially in my upper body) and I don't like to get too bulky(just not my preference). For my shoulders and triceps, I actually can't lift over 3lbs. without fatiguing very easily or feeling severe discomfort. I could go heavier for biceps, legs, back but I just choose not to. Oh...for barbell work, I'm usually between 15-25 lbs.

 

[marcy]

Hi Lisa,

Everyone is different. Some people like endurance, some like heavy lifting. I love heavy lifting. I just finished P90X and achieved some great results. Here are my weights for each body part:

Back: 30-33# (one arm rows)
Triceps: 15# (kickbacks)
Biceps: 10# (Cathe's partial rep curls) - 17# (concentration curls), 13-15# hammer curls.
Shoulders: 10-15#
Chest: 19# (dbbl bench presses and flies), close grip barbell overhead press (40#)
Legs: Don't really like to use any weight. Much prefer non-weighted exercises. I feel I get too bulky using weights. For lunges though, I usually use 5-10#. Before I stopped using weight for squats, I was up to 46#.

Marcy

 

[banslug]

Good question!

I'm the opposite of Pippa here. I go as heavy as possible MOST of the time. Lower body: for moves like squats and lunges, I'm up to 65 lbs on the barbell and still increasing. I've been slowly working on increasing to completely fatigue the lower body by the end of the workout. For upper body moves like biceps, I'm max'ing out at 20 pounders right now. Shoulders....depends on the move, but things like overhead military press I can use 15-20's but use the lighter dumbells for moves like the front raises and side lateral raises.

BUT.....I also go in between sometimes too. For instance, I just this morning did Butts & Guts and I used 5lb dumbells like CAthe, but used a 45lb barbell (where she uses 35). So I went in between with the lighter DB but heavier BB (and still could have gone heavier on those).

Does that make sense?

WOW....what an explanation. Sorry that you asked??? LOL

Gayle

 

[Faithnveggies]

Hey Gayle,
When you use 45 on BB for B&G, do you keep up w/ Cathe on reps, too? Are you feeling safe/comfortable getting that wt overhead? I can go nearly 60 on the dead lifts, but no way could I do 45 on squats and also keep up w/ her doing singles. Yet...

 

[lioness]

I usually try to go as heavy as possible and am always challenging myself to go to the next level. This is what I currently use.

Back - 25-30# (I could go to 35# but I don't have the weight)
Chest - 20#
Shoulders - 12-15#
Biceps - 12-15#
Triceps - Kickbacks - 10#, overhead ext. - 15-20#
Legs - 40-45#

At bootcamp on Friday, I did deadlifts with 70# but I don't have the weight at home to go that high.

 

[banslug]

Jody-Yes, I keep up with Cathe's pace with the 45. As for lifting it over my head, I was stuck for a while at about 40 lbs because I was afraid I'd hurt myself. But then, while doing S&H and wanting to go really really heavy, I figured something out! LOL I now put my barbell on the dip handles on my power tower. I load the BB and then I can get underneath it, position myself, then stand up to get it on my shoulders. It works PERFECTLY...that's how I've been able to increas now. I can go really really heavy doing it this way.

WOW.....deadlifts with that really heavy weight? I've concentrated on going really heavy on squats and lunges, that I was afraid of form on deadlifts. Now you guys have me wanting to try heavier on those! LOL

Gayle

 

[Lean Lori]

This is what I used for my heaviest when I did PUB the other day:

Chest: 20 lbs

Back: 30 lbs

Shoulders: 10 lbs (I have a "sensitive" shoulder so I am very careful about increasing weight on shoulder work)

Triceps: 25 lbs (overhead press) 12 lbs (kickbacks)

Biceps: 20 lbs

I do not do weighted work for lower body as it aggrivates my vericose veins.

Lori

 

[allwildgirl]

I'm with those who love lifting heavy! Well, heavy for me, anyway...

Back - 20 - 30 lbs
Chest - 15 - 20 lbs
Shoulders - 10 - 12 lbs
Triceps - 8 - 10 lbs (15 - 20 for overhead press)
Biceps - 12 - 20 lbs for dumbbells, 25 - 35 lbs for a barbell (except those evil biceps in ME - I can only do 20 for those)
Legs - 40 lbs

 

[acatalina]

Back - 20-30 1 arm - 40-50 lbs barbell
Chest - 15 - 30 lbs
Shoulders - 10 - 20 lbs
Triceps - 10- 15 lbs (15 - 25 for overhead press)
Biceps - 10 - 15 lbs for dumbbells,
25 - 35 lbs for a barbell
Legs-30-55# except for
B&G 5-8 and 40#
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Anne
AKA
Storm

 

[alsrnbsn]

I'm also in the heavy lifting camp...

DB rows- #30-#35
BB row- #75
Chest- #25 DB press/ #50-#60 bench press
Shoulders- #20 overhead press/#15 lat raise
Triceps- #25 overhead extensions/#12-15 kickbacks
Biceps- #15 curls/#17.5 hammer curls...sometimes #20
Squats- #110-120 at home, #150 or so at the gym
Deadlift- #155 at the gym
SLDL- #90

 

[kathryn]

The amount of weight one can or should use depends on a lot of things: the number of reps per set and speed of reps, ones own strength (determined partly by previous lifting experience, but also my anatomy).

The best rule, in general, I think, is to use a weight that makes the last 2-3 reps of a set difficult. Ideally, the chosen weight should make it possible to do all reps with good form, but be unable to do one more.

I usually use about the same weights Cathe does(often heavier for back, where I think she goes light, lighter for chest flyes on some workouts, heavier for deadlifts).