Another funny thing that goes on at the Greenwich Y, is that every time I work out there, everyone wants to lift heavy. I don’t see too many people lifting light. I was giving the advice for “muscle” confusion before and I’ve been following it. One week I lift kind of heavy, the next week I’ll lift everything light, next week I’ll lift medium, then heavy again. You want to mix it up. You see too many guys lifting over 200 lbs. of weights or more and they don’t even look that strong to lift that heavy yet.

In my opinion, lifting heavy all the time, you won’t get the results you want. It might give you more strength, yes, but doing nothing but lifting heavy will make you real sore all the time. It’s a risk for future injuries as well. You may think you won’t get injured now, true, but down the road, you will.

“Muscle” confusion is a great technique. If you mix it up, you can get muscle gains and strength both at the same time, and that’s what you want, in my opinion. Bodybuilding is not really all about trying to lift the heaviest weights possible, that’s what people think. When it really should be about looking great and feeling healthy.

Kev