@melaninedbarbie: Advice someone told me if you know you can lift a specific weight and it’s challenging go ahead and do it. Don’t waste your energy, trying to warm up for the weight , if you stretched and had needed rest day, get it over with your wasting time… at the time I thought that they were being a little blunt but normally I would do 60 pounds 75 but never hopping straight into it. I don’t care if you’re only doing three reps the first set do three then four then last one do 5 to 6 each sets push yourself further each one .. don’t forget water breaks, and realize lifting heavy weights is not easy. It doesn’t get lighter. You just get stronger..❤️ other exercise is where I would say don’t go too heavy, but if you’ve been working out for an hour and some change and that’s your last workout stop wasting time.