Which should you do?

[runfree]

I often do jackie warners workouts which consists of high reps lower wts. Question is should I do higher reps lower wt only for several weeks or is it ok to throw in a low rep, heavy wt routine say once a week and do the high rep workout once or twice a week also?

 

[gillianorr]

I wouldn't opt for just doing it for several weeks...your muscles and mind need the variety of mixing it up!
In fact, I don't often repeat the same pattern at all...some weeks all heavy, some weeks high reps, most weeks I do a combo! My motto is don't get stuck in a particular routine OR pattern of routines!
Aren't we lucky we have sooo many options these days??

 

[Dela]

Mixing it up is generally best. Gillian already gave some great ideas, one other thought is to set up an STS style rotation with the dvds you have. So for one month do the more endurance/high rep stuff, second month do heavier but more traditional weight workouts (full body and/or splits), then in the third month do heavy weight/low rep workouts. There are not many high weight / low rep dvds that I know of though other than meso 3 in STS and the weight work in 4 day split, so that may take some adjustments to other dvds or doing workouts without dvds.

 

[runfree]

Wasnt sure what I was doin was gonna get me results. I mix it up by doing high rep low wt and then heavy but on a weekly basis. Say monday high rep, thursday low rep just wanted to make sure I want suppose to be doing one for weeks then switch it up. Thanks