{"id":532329,"date":"2010-04-18T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/18\/weight-training-how-to-determine-the-weight-you-should-lift\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T07:45:00","slug":"weight-training-how-to-determine-the-weight-you-should-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532329","title":{"rendered":"Weight Training: How to Determine the Weight You Should Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/04\/weight-lifting-186.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Dear Sarah, <\/p>\n<p>When I head to the gym my workout consists of mostly cardio and then I play around a little on the weight machines. I would like to get more serious about weight training, but how do I figure out how much weight to use, how many repetitions to do, how long to rest in between sets etc.? What should my goal be for getting started? <\/p>\n<p>Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Kelly, <\/p>\n<p>A proper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=weight-training\">weight-training<\/a> routine will deliver results you never thought possible. A great starting goal is to increase muscular endurance. <\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/hp-ps\/hl-mvs\/pag-gap\/pdf\/guide-eng.pdf\">Canada&#8217; s Physical Activity Guide to Healthy Active Living<\/a> recommends two to four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=strength-training%20workouts\">strength-training workouts<\/a> per week. Adequate rest is required between resistance training sessions in order for the muscle-building process to happen. Generally, about 48 hours between workouts is recommended, and more rest is better than not enough!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/18\/weight-training-how-to-determine-the-weight-you-should-lift\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Weight Training: How to Determine the Weight You Should Lift<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.musclenet.com\/1repmaxcalculator.htm>Read<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/hp-ps\/hl-mvs\/pag-gap\/pdf\/guide-eng.pdf>Read<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/18\/weight-training-how-to-determine-the-weight-you-should-lift\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19437836\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/04\/18\/weight-training-how-to-determine-the-weight-you-should-lift\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sarah, When I head to the gym my workout consists of mostly cardio and then I play around a little on the weight machines. I would like to get more serious about weight training, but how do I figure out how much weight to use, how many repetitions to do, how long to rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}