Bodybuilding Workout

Stressing your muscles in different ways is one of the keys to continuous and uninterrupted growth to build muscles mass. If you do the same workout over and over again your muscles become used to the stress and gradually the workout will become less and less effective at stimulating muscle growth. Luckily there are a number of tactics that can be employed in order to mix things up a bit to build your muscles mass and get your muscles growing once more.

1) Progressive Overload. Well really you should be doing this as a matter of course. You can simply keep increasing the poundage each workout or keep increasing the number of reps you do. A combination of the two is fine also

2) Giant sets. This is done by following one set of an exercise with another exercise that targets the exact same muscle group. For example, side lateral raises done after shoulder presses. You may then break for a couple of minutes and do another a set.

3) A superset is where you do one regular set immediately followed by an exercise for the opposing muscle group. A great pump is often felt in those muscles after doing this. Such as, rows after bench presses, tricep pushdowns followed by bicep curls.

4) Reps that are forced. On a regular set, instead of failing on the last rep you basically get a friend to asisst you in completing the final rep and then to help you in doing a further 2 or 3 reps. The assistance should mean that you can still only just do it yourself and should be minimal.

5) Negatives. This is when you do a normal regular set to failure and then with the help of a partner complete another rep but then you have to lower the weight under complete control and slowly yourself.

6) Drop sets. Do a regular set until failure, lower the amount on the bar and do a few more repetitions, decrease the amount of weight lifted once more and continue doing more reps and keep doing this. This is a very intense technique that creates a real burn and can help build muscle mass a great deal.

This is just a start on the different varieties of exercise that can be done to build muscles mass but be warned these can leave you feeling quite sore for the next few days so always ensure that you allow sufficient rest between exercises.

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