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Originally Posted by Milly1
What I don't get about the increasing weights; if you have being lifting long term, surely there comes a point when you can't physically increase anymore! Maybe once your train feels your core is strong enough then the real work will start.
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But that point is far, far, far away in the future. People can eventually lift hundreds and hundreds of pounds. Maxing out is not really something that most of us will have to worry about.
Variety is good: slightly different forms of your favorite exercises are a way of keeping your body on its toes (eg, front squats rather than back squats, deadlifts from a platform, etc).
The other thing is that you can mix up your rep scheme at different times or on different days--this is another way to avoid plateauing. So you might do a program for a while that does 3 sets of 10 reps. Then after a while you might do 5 sets of 5. Then 2 sets of 12. You'd have to change the weights you use for each of those rep schemes, so your body would constantly be adapting and gaining strength. (You can also mix up the rep scheme on a regular basis: so the same group of exercises, but make Monday 4x4 day, Weds 3x10 day, and Fri 4x8 day. That's fun.)