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Originally Posted by Sid Vicious
IMO, you should try to put on the most amount of muscle possible. this will increase your BMR which will make it ultimately easier to lose fat
do relatively high volume with heavy weights i.e. i recommend 5x5
and fuck cardio, sprints and plyos all the way
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Your BMR statement makes sense, but increasing the the weight wouldn't increase the "volume"... increasing reps would. 5 sets of 5 reps of 100 lbs = 2500 lbs lifted. If you did a lighter weight, more reps, same amount of sets. You would life a lot more "total" weight. On average, optimal hypertrophy is gained through rep rages of 8-12. anything lower or higher would be tapping into different energy systems. Although, you would obviously gain some muscle no matter what kind of rep range you do.