Weight Training is for building muscle mass. To build muscle mass most effectively, you need to go heavy. You need that muscle to fail.
Right on, I'm a high weight, low rep lifter myself. My reps look about like this 1x15 warm up, 1x10, 1x7, 3x3, max lift. Since I work out at home and don't have a partner I am unwilling to do a 1 rep max lift do to safety reasons. Spyro, heres my problem, on abs I was doing a decline bench situp routine with a 50 lb plate on my chest, I got to 80 situps and thats just getting redundant, so I switched to crunches and same thing, it require too many to be effective, do you have a solid ab workout routine that doesn't take so long and so many reps? After awhile I start to question the effectiveness of doing 80 reps. Thanks.