🤔 Should you do fast or slow reps for weight loss?

I've spend over 4 out of my 34 years in this realm working in gyms...

You could imagine I heard a lot of interesting ideas from the members working out there.

One thing I heard that was surprisingly common was the different benefits of high reps, low reps, fast reps, and slow reps when it comes to losing weight.

Doctor Seuss style rhymes aside, there are different benefits for each style of lifting weights, but here’s the deal:

The way you lift weights doesn’t really impact weight loss all that much.

For example, if you do nice and slow reps, you’ll actually burn more calories per rep, but your set will contain less reps.

On the other hand, if you do fast reps you’ll burn less calories per rep, but you’ll be doing more reps with the same weight.

In the case of low reps, you’ll probably burn more calories per rep, but with high reps you might burn more calories per set.

All that said, the difference might be 5… 10… maybe 20 calories max.

You could make a bigger impact on your calories by switching to Geico.

I wish that was a joke, but when I was selling cars they took forever to get the paperwork sent back so people could pick up their new cars.

The customer’s stress from that alone probably burned more calories than a set of squats.

But to be fair, that was back when I lived in New England.

Here in the Midwest, things seem to move much faster but it could be just because they fixed their systems.

Ha, anyway…

The real key to weight loss has nothing to do with how fast you lift, how many reps you do, or which insurance you have...

And it has everything to do with how much you eat.

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Talk soon,
-Gabe

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