Pls vote & explain.

My aim to have slim fit & nice body

Thanks

This post has been edited by hotguuy: Feb 24 2020, 12:59 AM

If you are working out to stress your muscles for growth, then form. The level of resistance is just a contributing factor to the goal.

If you are working out to lift heavier weights in a competition of sorts, then form can be sacrificed for performance but you'll have to mindful of the injury risk.

Perfect form is a bit too much. Not much people can perfect their form even without weights. We'll call it good form will do.

Best way to grow muscle is through hypertrophy workout. Higher reps with time under tension aka TUT. To perform a good TUT you need to control the weight aka Good Form to keep the tension as high. As you gets better at it then you will be able to lift heavier. That's progressive overload.

Good form comes first followed by heavy weight.

My understanding of Perfect = 99.99999999999999999999999% perhaps 100% absolute precision, absolute zero room of improvement
As a human being
Or even most advance machine
I still doubt we're far far away from achieving Perfect

Body weight > improve form > add weight > improve form, rest in between

This post has been edited by helven: Feb 18 2020, 12:01 PM

Sorry, I shld use proper form.

Then of course proper form/good form loh, and effective weight.
For example, if it is a biceps curl, pick a weight that let you do the biceps curl ONLY, not full body swing curl that you start engaging other muscle group. The name is already saying it is a biceps curl mah

We got one swinger in the vote.

Based on your edited goal, it should be form.

Thanks for the votes

assuming my form is good, how many number of reps is optimal for size growth?
currently i am doing
deep squats 3 reps per set
chest bench press 3 reps per set

3 reps is for strength.

For optimal growth you need time under tension. Control the weights for longer period of time say 30seconds per set. Can be 8reps ~ 20reps range.

Both

Heaviest weight that you can handle without losing your form

Number of reps is not the main concern

For muscle growth its about muscle under tension

You can get similar muscle growth doing low reps or high reps, as long as you get the tension going on your muscle.

Weight lifters dont get huge muscle doing their heaviest lift, but through pratices reps after reps after reps.

You can grow muscle with just 1 rep, by using static hold to create that muscle tension.