{"id":1830,"date":"2017-01-24T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:49:33","slug":"short-read-building-strength-high-reps-with-low-weight-v-actually-building-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Short read: Building strength; high reps with low weight v. actually building strength"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Below is a link to a great short article by Mark Rippetoe, the author of this excellent book, which I think I&#8217;ve posted about and also given many copies out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09704492970d-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13397\" title=\"Practical programming\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the article which takes five minutes to read. Funny, his comment about getting off the toilet &#8211; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m lifting weights three times a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/startingstrength.com\/article\/bad-advice-about-higher-reps?utm_source=Starting+Strength+Weekly+Report&amp;utm_campaign=d626f15e36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_23&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_1b2b466284-d626f15e36-257611473\">Bad Advice About Higher Reps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighter weights and higher reps. Same effect, less risk, lighter is safer and more reps make up for the lighter weight, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong. Hit the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a link to a great short article by Mark Rippetoe, the author of this excellent book, which I think I&#8217;ve posted about and also given many copies out. Here is the article which takes five minutes to read. Funny, his comment about getting off the toilet &#8211; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m lifting weights three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13398,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/13398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}