It depends on your workout and exercise goals. For overall strength training, you should do less weight and more repetitions. Often people do sets of 5 or 10.
When beginning an exercise program, one should start with 3 sets of 10 reps with a certain weight amount. The weight should be gradually increased so the muscles do not become accustomed to the amount of weight being used. After a period of time, the sets and repetitions can be increased to improve the results of the exercise.
If you're referring to squats with nothing but your own body weight, you might as well not do anything. But barbell squats are the best exercise you can do. Learn to do it correctly, then do a few sets of 5-8 after warming.
The average routines are: 4 sets of 4 10-repititions exercise. For example; -Upper Chest: 4 sets of 10 repititions. -Lower Chest: 4 sets of 10 repititons. -Push-ups: 4 sets of 10 repititions. -Chest press: 4 sets of 10 repititions. These will make a total of 4 whole sets, which is the average of exercise for a muscle.
Usually the heaviest weight you can do 8-10 reps at an exercise, ending with fatigue of the muscle group. Generally three sets per exercise.
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You need to eat big and exercise. Eat 1 gm of protein for every pound of your body weight. Work out legs once a week. 2 warm up sets - Squats - light/ moderate weight - 15 - 20 reps 4 sets of Squats/ Hack Squats 4 sets of Leg Press 4 sets of Leg Curls 4 sets of reverse leg curls For the work sets, take a weight which you can barely do 12 reps.
Most trainers recommend doing sets of 10 repetitions at a time. That's a small enough number so that you don't exhaust your muscles doing them, but enough that you exercise them.
Affordable weight sets can be found in many convenient places, be it from an online retailer, such as one of the many fitness chains, or in physical stores such as Wal-Mart. One might also check local newspaper classified advertisements for a good deal on weight sets.
you only want to increase weight after being able to do 3 sets of 10 with out lots of fatigue
in each workout you must increase either weight lifted or reps with previous weight or sets, if you want to keep growing...
Do exercises 2-3 times a week for 5 sets of each exercise. You should have a stronger grip within a month for sure.