Effects of NOT INCREASING WEIGHT

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soflsun

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Has ther been any research on what happens if you stop increasing the weights you are lifting.  For example, let's say that I decided that the most I wanted to bench for reps was 225 lbs.  Once this was achieved, my body has adapted and become a certain size due to the weightlifting.  Now...I stay with this weight forever.

Do I shrink from using the same weight, or does everything stay the same?
 
You eventually shrink. Your 225 brings growth then stops then adapts more and more to the weight. It has now gone from being "training" to "working". Working muscles acheive a setpoint in size and strength and pretty much stay there, but as you age (I'm talking about years here) your hormones drop and you can't keep the beef you had before.
Will you shrink right away? Not if the diet is consistent, you don't add too much other activity to burn muscle, sleep well, and stay off stress. So many factors come into play we really can't say what would happen. But all that is my educated guess, having been a carpenter and lifter for years.
 
Great answer Quad. I couldn't have said it better.
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Thanx. Another thing to mention is powerlifters. Looking at my placing (when I was thinking of competing) I went thru some years on the charts and noticed that the lead guys often were the same guys, still hitting record lifts...BUT!!!...each year their record lifts were less and less weight. They just changed weight classes, aged, and lost the ability to lift the same maxes as their testosterone and GH levels dropped.
The most amazing thing on earth was those guys still competing in their '70's...not many, not lifting much compared to us, but look at their contemporaries! Most of those can't even DRIVE anymore!
 
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