As a personal trainer who has been in the game for over a decade, it is easy to forget to mention the basics. We throw around terms like sets and reps all the time and it is too easy to forget that a lot of new people to the gym have no idea what we are talking about. In reality, it's quite simple, a rep is short for repetition and it is the amount of times you complete a lift in succession. For example, if you were to do 6 reps of press-ups, it means you would do 6 press-ups back to back without a break. This would also be known as 1 set. A set is an amount of reps done in one go. So if you were to repeat an exercise multiple times for 6 repetitions that would be a number of sets. For example, 3 sets of 6 reps on press-ups would mean that you would complete 6 press-ups, back to back with no rest. Then rest for a couple minutes and repeat this another two times. I hope that helps, most programmes also denote the number of overall sets to do, then the reps per set. An easy way to determine which way around it is, is most programmes will have a higher number of reps than it does sets.
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