Building muscular endurance and strength up evenly.

[Exponential]

I just started a heavy-wieght low-rep lifting routine with my backpack and a bunch of big books because I wanted to improve my strength more then anything else. (I'm going to save up and get a bb soon, but untill the bag should be fine )

Then, I was going to work on my muscular endurance after a month or so of that. But then I started thinking. Is there any reason I couldn't build them up evenly by picking a wieght I can only do for about 3 reps and just keep doing it untill I get to 12. Also, as the reps picked up, so would the pace, etc. Then I'd find whatever wieght I can only do for 3 reps, and build it up the same way.

I'm not worried about losing/gaining any wieght, and I'd be eating a lot to handle both wieght lifting and mma training that I'm trying to start soon anyway. (Working out a way to get transportation.) So don't think I'm trying to bulk and cut at the same time. I know you can't really do that.

Thanks for the help.

[SevenStar]

once you pass 8 reps or so, it will transition to endurance training, and you stop maximally building strength until you increase the weight again. I would do them on separate days if I wanted maximum strength AND maximum endurance - strength twice a week and endurance twice per week.

However, in general, what your idea is fine.

[Aodhan]

once you pass 8 reps or so, it will transition to endurance training, and you stop maximally building strength until you increase the weight again. I would do them on separate days if I wanted maximum strength AND maximum endurance - strength twice a week and endurance twice per week.

However, in general, what your idea is fine.

Exactly. High weight/low reps will build strength, the lower the weight and higher the reps, the more you build size.

Every muscle is comprised of two different types of fibers, slow twitch and fast twitch, and your ratio of same is fixed at birth. Fast twitch fibers are generally recruited first, and tire faster, before recruiting the slow fibers.

If you really want to build strength, work out a routine where you do multiple muscle exercises with middle weights to tire out the fast twitch fibers, followed by isolation exercises with heavier weights to hammer the individual muscles. If you do a google search on fast twitch training or slow twitch training, you'll find some really good articles.

Aodhan

[Mr Pockets]

My personal philosophy is get all the power you want first- you'll keep enough endurance if you're training hard (with your actual fightin, that is.) After you reach whatever you want in regards to strength, then do something else if you want.