4/2/09

Weight-training plateau

1- Take time off. The number one cause of lack of progress is overtraining. By simply not lifting weights for a week or three, you allow your body to fully recover... and add that new muscle growth you've already stimulated so you can return to the gym and resume training effectively.

2- Space your workouts further apart. This keeps you from falling into the same trap over and over again. A fixed training frequency will not work for building new muscle mass. It may work for aerobics, martial arts techniques and many other things, but it won't work for building new muscle. As you get stronger, your weightlifting workouts need to be spaced further apart.

3- Do heavy leg training. By far, the best exercise you can do to increase your body's anabolic activity is heavy leg presses. Surprised I didn't say squats? Squats are a great all-around exercise but they are limited by how much weight you can comfortably support on your shoulders. Many people I work with do 3,000-pound leg presses. Accounting for the 45-degree angle of most leg presses, that's equivalent to a 2,100-pound squat -- and nobody in the world does that.The legs contain the largest muscles in the human body and when those muscles are forced to operate at the limits of their capacity, the systemic anabolic effect spills into every muscle group in the body. It is literally true that heavy leg training gives you bigger arms.

Source: AskMen.com

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