How to Continually Gain Muscle

Are you looking to gain muscle without hitting a plateau? Here are some tips to help you continue to gain muscle mass without hitting a gaining plateau.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Change. You must change your workout around every three weeks. Our bodies become adaptive to our workouts and weight, so we must continually change things to shock the body. The changes can be a different angle, hand position, or a different exercise.

2. Incorporate advanced training techniques. Try using drop (strip) sets, super and giant sets, modified reps (21s), forced reps, and lifting slow.

3. Drop (strip) sets. Perform an exercise with a weight you can do for 8 reps. Lower the weight and do 8 more reps. Lower the weight again and do 8 more reps.

4. Super and giant sets. Perform opposite exercises without resting in between, such as, triceps and biceps, chest and back, or quads and hamstrings.

5. Modified reps (21s). Do 7 reps at the negative (stretched) part of the move, 7 at the positive (flexed) part of the move, and 7 full range reps.

6. Forced reps. Forced reps are when a partner assist you when you have maxed out to do more reps.

7. Slow reps. Make your movement slower than normal to hit the slow twitch muscles.

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on 9/16/2009 Good 5 * tips for gaining muscle. Most people don't think about change.