smaller increments or repeating weights?

[waray214]

here are my barbell row weights....would it be better to repeat weights and have larger, 10 lb increments or not repeat weights and have 5 lb increments?

10 pd increments

100 100 110 110 120 120/115 115 125 125 135 135/135 135 145 145 155 155

vs

5 pound increments

95 100 105 110 115 120/115 120 125 130 135 135/130 135 140 145 150 155

thanks guys

 

[whistledixie]

here are my barbell row weights....would it be better to repeat weights and have larger, 10 lb increments or not repeat weights and have 5 lb increments?

10 pd increments

100 100 110 110 120 120/115 115 125 125 135 135/135 135 145 145 155 155

vs

5 pound increments

95 100 105 110 115 120/115 120 125 130 135 135/130 135 140 145 150 155

thanks guys

I've read that bigger increments are better for hypertrophy, smaller increments better for strength gains.

Bryan Haycock said in the ebook: "Larger increments will tend to cause greater microtrauma, and by extension hypertrophy. Lower increments will be more conducive towards strength increases (and not so much hypertrophy). The reason is that you want the workout to be traumatic to the muscle tissue each and every workout. Therefore, the weight load has to exceed the muscles ability to structurally adapt from workout to workout. If the increments are too small, the workout won’t really be that much different from the previous workout, and as a result, will not cause much trauma to the tissue."