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That's just one suggestion. In general, these are the key:
- don't do the same upper body exercises every day -- vary muscle groups - vary exercises for a group here and there (i.e. try different type of curls or whatever) - free weights are better than machine and dumbbells are better than bars, since more stabilizing effort is required and more range of motion is achieved - depending on how heavy you're going, sets of either 5 (with a difficult weight), 8 (moderate), or 12 (lesser) reps are good - you see diminishing returns with each set... in other words, with 3 sets you will have achieved, say, 85% of the possible gain from that workout... 4 or 5 sets is ok, but you can only derive so much more from them... more than 5 is overkill - stretch or do abs in between sets while you let your muscle breath for a few minutes
I'll stop there. This is all basically sound advice, even if you're just looking for a modest build. No need to go insane with 10 different exercises per day, also -- even 1 or 2 per muscle group with a few sets of each will derive a lot of your possible benefit.
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