I've always been a very strong girl. I can lift, push, pull....do whatever, that my friends cannot think of doing. That comes naturally to me, it's in my veins as my dad is very strong and so is my mom. I haven't weight trained since high school (yikes!) and I want to start. I want to do low reps, high weights. Not really sure what "program" that would be. At any rate, I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I've read somewhere that doing 60-80% of your "1 rep max" is the best weight. Now given I figure that out, how many sets and reps should I be doing?
3 sets of 8 at a 60% weight?
1 set of 12 at an 80% weight?
I'm not sure if anyone follows what i'm saying. I'm so terrible at explaining things. I just want to get the most bang for my buck, and I guess I want to know if doing 12 and on the 12th, I feel like I'm going to break in half.. Or do a couple sets of 8 and at the END of that, feel like I'm going to break in half. haha.
Ahh damn my explanation skills.