The Perfect Rep Is the Secret to Maximizing Your Muscle Growth

Here’s exactly how to perform it

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A rep is the most fundamental part of any workout yet most of us perform it wrong.

For years, I experimented with different exercises and workout styles. But never did my results improve as much as they did when I perfected my reps.

Your workout is nothing but the sum of the reps you perform. So, improving your reps alone can drastically improve your workouts.

You might not see any benefits immediately but over the long term, the benefits will add up to a mind-boggling level.

Here’s an Illustrative Example:

Take a hypothetical workout and let’s say you perform 5 exercises and 3 sets of 12 each. Let the quality of each rep be say 0.7.

Now the total “volume” of the workout would be = 5 X 3 X 12 X 0.7 = 126. With 5 such workouts in a week, the weekly volume would be 630. And the yearly volume would be 32760.

Now, let’s say you improve the quality of every rep to 0.9. It doesn’t seem like a huge jump, does it? 0.7 to 0.9 but wait, let’s do the math again.

The total workout volume would be 162, the weekly volume would be 1134, and the yearly one would be — 58968.