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Build Huge Muscles by Pre-Exhausting Your MusclesBy Daniel Gutirrez If you've been working out for any length of time you've probably discovered that using the same workout month after month will eventually lead to stagnation or what bodybuilders call a growth plateau. Your muscles will basically stop to grow and they just won't be very responsive during your workouts. Your pumps will suffer and the only way to stop all of this is to change up your workout. Sometimes it's as easy as switching in some different exercises for your workout routines but other times it requires something much more dramatic. The workout detailed below is designed to get you over any hump or plateau and pretty much designed to annihilate your muscles into growth or else! Anytime you weight train you're performing one of two movements. You're either doing a compound movement or an isolation movement. A compound movement involves multiple joints while an isolation movement only requires a singular joint. Think of a squat when thinking about compound movements. A squat requires use of the following joints: your hips and your knees. An isolation movement would be something like a bicep curl. The only joint you use in a bicep curl is your elbow. Ok now that you understand that let's move on to some principles that you'll also need to know. A 'compound set' is basically two different exercises done back to back without rest in between. You're going to utilize compound sets to increase the intensity of your workouts and to bust out of your plateau. But not just any compound set you're going to use pre-exhaust super sets. A pre-exhaust set is basically a combination of an isolation movement exercise and a compound movement exercise. This combination is particularly effective because you begin the super set with the isolation movement. So for a chest workout Make sure you would mo something like flat bench flyes or if you're at the gym cable cross overs. Make sure to squeeze your muscles at the end of every rep and really try to get a good pump going. Aim for 8-10 reps and use perfect form. You'll be pretty surprised when you follow that up with a compound movement. For your chest you would follow flyes up with barbell bench presses or my personal favorite here dumbell bench presses. Don't use as much weight as you normally would. Your muscles will be considerably weaker following the isolation exercise. Use 60-75% of the weight you normally would an force yourself through a set of 6-8 reps. When you read about and hear guys in the gym talking about 'intensity' this is what they're talking about. Intensity just means pushing yourself and your body to the limits without fear. This workout ensures good intensity and is sure to bust you out of any growth rut. About the author Find the right bodybuilding routines at wickedmuscle.com and discover the perfect bodybuiulding workout program for you! |
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