Weight Lifting Techniques For Making The Most Out of Your Workout

The following weight lifting techniques will add some spice to your workouts and will shock your body into growth. Doing the same old boring routine day in day out and never changing the way you lift will leave your body bored and unwilling to adapt to change (muscle growth).

The weight lifting techniques that i am going to show you are not new concepts they have been around for ages but people often forget all about them and do not include them into their weight training routines.

Forced Reps
One method of forcing out extra reps is to have a spotter supply a little extra lift to help you to keep going when you think you can do no more. Another method of forcing out reps is to do as many as you can have a quick pause to regain some strength and then carry on forcing out a few more reps.

Negative Reps
Whenever you lift a weight using your muscles you do the positive part of the movement. When you lower the weight you do the negative part of the movement. Negative reps actually put more stress on your tendons and supporting muscles then the actual muscles being worked. This is beneficial because you want tendon strength to increase. To get the full benefit of negative reps then you must lower the weights slowly. A method of performing negative only reps is to lower the weight under strict control yourself and have a partner lift it up for you, this way you just do the negative part of the rep.

Superset's
These are my favorite. Superset's are basically two or more exercises performed in a row without stopping. For example perform 10 reps on the bench press and then move immediately to the pull up station and perform 10 pull ups. It takes a while to build up the endurance to do lots of superset's and in my early days of training i regularly used to feel sick after doing them. This method gives you a tremendous pump feeling and is great for adding extra intensity to your workouts.

The Shocking Principle
The body has an amazing ability to adapt to stress and workout loads. If you always do the same kind of workout and use the same weight lifting techniques then your body will just adapt and get used to it. The way to avoid this is by surprising your body with different exercises, different workouts, different weights and working out on different days at different times. Don't let your body get used to a certain training method and always keep it guessing.

The Stripping Method
No this dose not mean that you get naked to do your workouts. This is one of the best weight lifting techniques for totally blasting your muscles. Example: Do 3 sets of 10 reps of bench press as normal, at the end of the last set remove some weight for the bar or lower the pin a few notches and perform as many reps as you can. Repeat this method until you have done another 3 or 4 sets. At the end of this your muscles will be smoking hot and feel pumped.

As mentioned before the above weight lifting techniques are not new but they are often forgotten about. If you are serious about making gains in both muscle size and strength then you need to shock your body into growth.

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