4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Lift Heavy Weights and Why You Should Do It Anyways

Many people want to get bigger and it is often advised that
they should lift heavy weights, the heavier the weights they can lift, the more
muscle they will break down and  rebuild so that their body can handle
that huge load next time. There are also those who say that training with super
heavy weights is unnecessary especially if you just want to get ripped and not
Mr Olympia big. Let us begin with the reasons you shouldn’t lift super heavy
weights.

In those days, I did what was necessary for me to win. This included training with heavy weights: a precursor for injury. So if I could do it over again I’d train with lighter weights, higher reps, no sets below 10 reps, with negatives slower than positives, and avoid injury. If I had done that, my physique wouldn’t have been quite as bulky, but with more definition and with less pain. – Frank Zane

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Why You Should Not
Lift Heavy Weights

• They cause you to have poor form, if you have poor form it
  is like you are cheating. When you lift a heavy weight you cannot properly
  handle you have poor form which means you are not getting the intended workout
  to your targeted muscle, you would have been better served by a lower weight
  with proper form to get the most out of your workout through a full range of
  motion.

• Lifting heavy weights often results in injury, injuries
  often caused by poor form and the inability to handle the weight you are
  lifting. Injury can take you weeks, months to recover or you could never
  recover from it fully. While you are injured there could be exercises you can
  do short term or can never do permanently just because you wanted to lift a
  weight you could not handle.

• You are not a powerlifter or a professional bodybuilder who
  needs to be hulk size so it is not necessary to lift super heavy weights to get
  big. Even bodybuilders lift those super heavy weights for show. You do not need
  to lift super heavy to get big, you just need to lift smart and to know what
  you are doing.

• Do not lift super heavy weights if you are by yourself and
  have no one to spot you, this is dangerous and could result in serious injury
  if the weight you are trying to lift crashes into you.

Everybody wants to be a
bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights – Ronnie Coleman

Why You Should
Lift Heavy Weights

• When I was a kid I not only dreamed of being big and
  muscular, I also dreamed of being super strong, I don’t want to be those guys
  who only look strong and big, I want my size to be proportional to my strength
  or even be stronger than I look since my goal weight is not that big at around
  85kg of shredded muscle.

• Lifting heavy weights and doing compound exercises is the
  simplest way to gain good size and strength as fast as possible, but make sure
  that when you are lifting heavy weights you take the necessary safety
  precautions like wearing a lifting belt when doing your squats, deadlifts and whatever
  other exercise that involves your back to protect your back.

• If you realize that you are not superman and you are not a power lifter trying to break some record. If you can avoid doing anything stupid like lifting to impress
  others, lifting only what you are able to lift. Do not risk injury due to poor
  form because you were showing off that you could lift the most weight. 

• You can lift heavy weights as long as you go about it in the
  right way, do not go from lifting 60kg to lifting over 100kg’s when you are
  still not ready or strong enough, take time each week to build strength by progressing
  in small increments till you can reach that goal heavy weight of yours. Add a
  couple pounds per week to what you can lift and soon all those pounds of iron
  will add up to a colossal amount of weight that will help you build muscle
  along the way to becoming super strong as well.