How do you know when to stop /fit/? I'm still new, but

>>40349936

When your form starts to break down

>>40349936

Also I assume you're doing Greyskull? Cut out the AMRAP portion, it really isn't very useful for beginners.

>>40349965
>When your form starts to break down
ok, that actually makes a lot of sense and I feel dumb for not thinking of it.

>>40349975
Tried Armstrong Pullups and Scoobys stuff. Keep fucking up both.

I've never pushed myself to failure so I can't comment on that specifically, but I'd suggest stopping it

Killing yourself where you have to rest for more than 5 minutes on anything but deadlift is counter productive and pointless unless you're trying to set a PR or something

>>40350028
>t. 2p8 squatter

>>40349936
by following a program

>>40350291
4 pl8 squatter in one year specifically because I never train to failure like an idiot

>>40350430
Referring to rest times

>>40350500
Then the OPs comment is disingenuous, he suggests reps to failure.

As for rest times, as long as you need. 3 minutes is ideal for big compounds but anything else as short or long as you need for your weight.

>>40349936
post more of this memes based op its motivating af

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>>40350565
>Then the OPs comment is disingenuous, he suggests reps to failure.
I don't really know what any of that means.
I'm very new to this. Never worked out upper body much before. I'm a runner. I'm not lifting any weights, just push/pullups.

I usually start shaking and losing form around 20 but I push to 25-30 because the plans just say stuff like "Five maximum effort sets. Rest 90 seconds between each set. Do not concern yourself with numbers."

>>40350600
for u

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>>40349936
I love these images. they expose how shallow and stupid those pseudo-philosophical motivational pictures really are in such a simple and amusing way

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>>40350736
These are far more motivating for me then any of that other stuff.

>>40350720
Repetitions to failure. Doing the movement until you can't do any more.

>I usually start shaking and losing form around 20 but I push to 25-30 because the plans just say stuff like "Five maximum effort sets. Rest 90 seconds between each set. Do not concern yourself with numbers."
Disregard that, numbers are the most important thing in lifting weights.

Also 25-30 reps isn't building strength, it's building endurance. As a general outline you should understand that:

>1-6 reps = Strength focused training
>7-12 reps = Hypertrophy focused training
>12+ reps = Endurance training

Read the sticky. Almost all beginner programs are focused around strength and sets of 5x5 or somewhere close to it.

>>40350430
>4pl8 in one year
Fatty or quartersquatter.

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>>40350788
What would you suggest if i'm not aiming for strength and I just need to get my numbers up?

I want to enlist in the army and I need to be able to do at least 50 pushups and 6 pullups without stopping to rest.

I plan on going for strength after I can get up to the minimum requirements.

>>40350873
>What would you suggest if i'm not aiming for strength and I just need to get my numbers up?
Training for strength. Increased numbers are the symptom of strength gain.

>I want to enlist in the army and I need to be able to do at least 50 pushups and 6 pullups without stopping to rest.
This is more endurance focused, but you're probably at the stage where you'll be building muscle/strength regardless.
For both of these, simply do more of them. I have a pull up bar and when I wanted to reach 20 and then 30 per day I simply did 2 or 3 every time I walked through the doorway. After you've done enough it becomes easy as piss. Same goes for pushups. Simply do more.

As I've stated a few times, stop training to failure, it's simply making things much less efficient.

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>>40350960
Thanks. This thread was helpful.