Conceptualizing Common Bodybuilding Terminologies (Part 2) :

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Conceptualizing Common Bodybuilding Terminologies (Part 2) :

Weights are the key tools for muscle stimulation for the active bodybuilder. Adding more weight means that you are making progress. If you are comfortable with the weights, you are not building your body. Instead you are just playing around with weights. The main indicator of progress in body building is how often you add more weights into your program thereby elevating muscles from comfort zones and constantly stimulate further growth. Target muscles can be focused on through directing weights to them for such periods of time as will be necessary. Pyramid training is the term which refers to this progressive approach to body building.

A set refers to a combination of many reps within a particular exercise. Sets are the units in which body building is dividend and internalized during workouts into quantified workload levels. The human mind works well when targets are set and all that remains is going through the routines with the sets in mind. To simplify the notion of the sets, you may consider sets as molecules which have been formed from a combination of many reps. Reps in this case may be taken as similar to atoms. Conventionally though, reps are the units used to determine where one exercise ends and where the other one begins. Repetitions within a single exercise form distinct reps.