Lift Heavy or Smaller Weights With High Reps? It All Depends on Your Goal

Lift Heavy or Smaller Weights With High Reps? It All Depends on Your Goal
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So you want to lift weights but aren’t sure where to start. You scroll through your Instagram feed looking for guidance – but all you see are fitness influencers touting the idea you either lift big or don’t bother.

That’s a bit intimidating and disheartening, right? But as with most things exercise and health, its not really that simple.

Mandy Hagstrom
Mandy Hagstrom
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Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. Director of Teaching and Education, School of Health Sciences, UNSW., UNSW Sydney
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