recently i read an article that said "how to push through a 2 month growth plateau" the advise that this magazine article was giving was to just keep pushing through your normal routine and add in 2 new exercises. sorry i strongly disagree. i remember i hit about a 1 month plateau that actually felt like i was going backwards and i got some advise from a buddy of mine his advise was stop doing what you are doing its not working. makes sense right? yea well its harder than you think. for example if you plateau on bench bench strength take a step back and look at what you are doing wrong and what needs to change. if you plateau on a strength gain the best thing to do is switch it up. so if you are doing a 5,3,1 training regiment switch to a 15,12,10 or even a 12,12,12 for as heavy as you can do it or i have even done 10 sets of 3 reps. changing things up will stimulate growth and it will also stimulate parts of the muscle that may be lagging and contributing to the failure to gain on the lift.
the reason i am hitting on this subject is because as many of you know i have recently made the switch from doing higher weight lower reps for strength gains to now doing high rep lower weight for isolation and growth. it has been about 4 weeks since i have switched to this plan. and since then i have lost 15.2 lbs. and have gotten harder and seen muscle groups i have never seen before. i have always trained hard (ask anybody who has ever trained with me) i have always pushed myself farther than i thought i could go.... so why all of a sudden after a month of a new training style has my body changed so much? the reasoning behind that actually is very simple. your body adapts to a certain style of training and a certain level of difficulty and it just becomes routine for your body. and then all of a sudden you change it up and your body almost over adjusts itself and is so shocked at what you are doing to it that it has no choice but to grow (or loose depending on goals). i encourage anyone that is having a hard time or going through a sticky spot in training to STOP what you are doing and do something different and outside the box for 1 month and i will almost guarantee you will see the results! obviously if you are jogging 5 miles a day and you drop it down to 2.5 it wont help. but for example if you are jogging 5 miles a day at it takes you roughly an hour and 15 minutes. i would say try and run 1 mile in under 9 minutes 2 times a day. again just an example of switching it up. if anyone has any questions on this please feel free to comment or message me on facebook and i will be happy to explain on this further. there are so many examples of switching routines up and so many different ways to do it. and what works for one person may not work for someone else. all of our bodies are different and what works for me may not work for you.
*wolfman*
the reason i am hitting on this subject is because as many of you know i have recently made the switch from doing higher weight lower reps for strength gains to now doing high rep lower weight for isolation and growth. it has been about 4 weeks since i have switched to this plan. and since then i have lost 15.2 lbs. and have gotten harder and seen muscle groups i have never seen before. i have always trained hard (ask anybody who has ever trained with me) i have always pushed myself farther than i thought i could go.... so why all of a sudden after a month of a new training style has my body changed so much? the reasoning behind that actually is very simple. your body adapts to a certain style of training and a certain level of difficulty and it just becomes routine for your body. and then all of a sudden you change it up and your body almost over adjusts itself and is so shocked at what you are doing to it that it has no choice but to grow (or loose depending on goals). i encourage anyone that is having a hard time or going through a sticky spot in training to STOP what you are doing and do something different and outside the box for 1 month and i will almost guarantee you will see the results! obviously if you are jogging 5 miles a day and you drop it down to 2.5 it wont help. but for example if you are jogging 5 miles a day at it takes you roughly an hour and 15 minutes. i would say try and run 1 mile in under 9 minutes 2 times a day. again just an example of switching it up. if anyone has any questions on this please feel free to comment or message me on facebook and i will be happy to explain on this further. there are so many examples of switching routines up and so many different ways to do it. and what works for one person may not work for someone else. all of our bodies are different and what works for me may not work for you.
*wolfman*