What's better for building my biceps?

more weight fewer reps as then ya slowly building up ya strength on something heavier, instead of poitlessly using a weight u can alreadfy do numerous times, trust.

Umm let's see.. more weight with fewer reps is for building a lot of muscle and little weight with a lot of reps is for tone.. DeeJayInphinity

So if I want to increase both muscle mass and get better tone, what do you recommend?

I'm just asking, because I think I'm going to buy some weights, and I'm wondering whether I should get heavy weights or light weights.

If I want to increase mass AND tone, should I get heavy weights AND light weights?

High weight, low reps for building._BlueDuck_

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[QUOTE="DeeJayInphinity"]Umm let's see.. more weight with fewer reps is for building a lot of muscle and little weight with a lot of reps is for tone.. MrGeezer

So if I want to increase both muscle mass and get better tone, what do you recommend?

I'm just asking, because I think I'm going to buy some weights, and I'm wondering whether I should get heavy weights or light weights.

If I want to increase mass AND tone, should I get heavy weights AND light weights?

Yeah, I suppose.. I'm thinking it's easier to go on the heavy weights right now and once you are happy with that, just maintain your muscle tone by lifting medium weights and doing a lot of reps with that.

By medium weights I mean something that doesn't stress you out but that's not too light.

[QUOTE="DeeJayInphinity"]Umm let's see.. more weight with fewer reps is for building a lot of muscle and little weight with a lot of reps is for tone.. MrGeezer

So if I want to increase both muscle mass and get better tone, what do you recommend?

I'm just asking, because I think I'm going to buy some weights, and I'm wondering whether I should get heavy weights or light weights.

If I want to increase mass AND tone, should I get heavy weights AND light weights?

Just go high weight. The only effective way to build any muscle is that way. Bigger biceps will make them seem toner anyhow.Tone mostly has to do with your fat percentage. And really the only way to deal with that is of course, lose fat.

If you lift heavy weights, you will build muscle, but I think if you lift lighter weights lots of times you'll be toned.

What I mean is that if you lift heavy weights, your muscle won't seem too big (toned) even though you can lift much heavier weights than guys with bigger muscles.

If you just want to look toned, try lifting medium weights numerous times. You won't be that strong but your muscles will look a lot better/bigger.

Bigger looking muscles doesn't mean that it's stronger...it just looks bigger.

Jesus christ some of you obviously havent lifted before.

Low reps, highweight= strength and explosive power

Medium reps, medium weight = mix of muscle endurance and power(great for beginners)

High reps, low weight = muscle endurance(also great for beginners)

What you want to do is to do compound exercises instead of targeting single muscle groups(unless you really need to shape a certain muscle). If you just do bicep exercises, you are going to have strong biceps but weaker triceps and shoulders. This will increase the risk of injury when doing other single muscle targeted lifts. So choose an upperbody compound lift such as military press, precher(wrong spelling?)curls, and there are others that you can search on google for. But if all you have is dumbells, do bicep curls, hammer curls, flys, and shoulder presses. Just be sure to besafe and fun training.

[QUOTE="_BlueDuck_"]High weight, low reps for building.L8erSquare

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Hey guys, to make a long story short, my friend and I almost got jumped yesterday. :shock: So basically that's motivated me to get in better physical shape i.e. running, pushups, situps, etc. but besides that stuff, what do you guys recommend for me to do to just get all around stronger?Forerunner-117

If you want your triceps to get strong, do the opposite of what a push up is. lay on your back, keep your legs straigh( or elevated on a stool) and arms straight and start lifting your body up and down

Hey guys, to make a long story short, my friend and I almost got jumped yesterday. :shock: So basically that's motivated me to get in better physical shape i.e. running, pushups, situps, etc. but besides that stuff, what do you guys recommend for me to do to just get all around stronger?Forerunner-117