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Advanced Techniques for Muscle Building
Written by JT on February 20, 2009 – 11:38 am -If you are like most bodybuilders the straight sets you have been doing have made noticeable changes in you physique, but now you have plateaued. You have been using the same muscle building techniques that have brought you great results week after week and month after month. It's inevitable that sooner or later your body will become used to you normal training routine and refuse to grow. Your muscles have built up a tolerance to your Weight Training Programs .
What now? Its time for advanced muscle building techniques. You need change to keep your body guessing and your muscles growing.
One of the easiest and simplest ways to encourage new muscles to grow is to alter the time of day you work out. Your body is an incredible piece of machinery that adapts to repetitive routines. Your body knows to expect that every Friday at 10:00pm you will be doing your usual routine at the gym. A simple change in your workout time can very often kick start your body into new growth.
Change the order of your exercises. Do you remember the first time you started your routine? I'll bet the first few weeks your muscles were pretty sore. As time passes by your muscles become used to the same routine, and that soreness decreases over time. Your muscles are building up a resistance to your routine. To shock your muscles into new growth change the order of your routine. For arguments sake lets say you are always stating off with the bench press and then performing incline dumbbell benches. Change the order and see how your muscles respond.
Try changing your sets and reps. This is by far, one of the easiest ways to increase the intensity of your workouts. If your used to doing 4 sets of 10 reps on the squat rack try adding an additional set at the end of your routine. Along with this, change up the ranges on your reps. In the above example in the last set on the squat rack drop the weight 20lbs and increases your reps from 8 to 15. This should make your legs burn!
Try sticking some negatives at the end of each set. This is a superb way to fully exhaust a muscle group. Certain exercises like curls are great for this. Once your muscle group has reached positive failure for a set, perform a few negatives at the end for total failure. Always make sure you have a spotter present when performing negatives.
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Strength Workouts - How to Choose The Correct Type
Written by JT on February 20, 2009 – 11:33 am -When first starting with a strength workout there will be important things to consider to achieve success. There is possibly more than you think that needs taking into account when considering various strength workouts.
So you need to find out a bit more before starting your muscle building workout.
Firstly, a strength workout should never be considered on its own, it should always be part of a well thought out health and fitness program. To avoid limited success and eventually quitting you need to ensure this is done.
So, if you want the best chance to reach your strength training goals, you have got to be clear what they really are. Better strength, obviously, but is it just strength or are you looking to build huge muscles? Or are you looking for the lean and ripped,modern look while still becoming stronger.
What about muscle endurance and stamina? Rapid muscle burn out can be a problem if you do not improve stamina when building huge muscles. Occasionally people build large muscles but have low stamina or muscle endurance.
While strength is important, a lot of sports require a high level of endurance as well.
So, as you can see, there is a lot to consider before starting muscle building workouts.
With any workout it is best to start slowly and build up but you should still get expert advice. This is important with strength workouts to avoid injury, you will need to push your muscle hard to go beyond what they are normally used to. Other important factors include diet, nutrition and adequate rest time. When the body has not got the correct nutrients or the time to build or repair muscle, only poor results will follow.
A variety of different exercises in strength workouts will make sure that all muscle groups are worked on. For example, chest workouts and bicep workouts amongst others.
You should always start with a warm up, which may be some light cardio or small weights, then move on to the real strength exercises for the larger muscle groups first. Finally you might target specific smaller muscle groups, followed by a warm down session.
Unless you are quite experienced in correct exercise techniques and how many reps, sets and how to choose the amount of weight, you will need expert guidance to get decent results.
The exercises will normally include lat pull downs, par bar dips, seated rows, bench presses, dumbbell presses and also dead lifts, these all require the use of some form of fitness equipment and could involve joining a gym or buying equipment for use in the home.
Push ups, lunges, squats and pull ups can all be completed without exercise equipment. When starting strength training it can be good to start with some of these, results may be quite limited and remember that you should always get professional advice before starting.
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