Supplement Your Workout With These Muscle Building Techinques
Weight lifting, for it to be useful should include some helpful muscle building techniques. Though you should remember that these techniques cater to experienced body builders who have achieved limits with their workouts. The following techniques are drop sets, super sets and negatives.
The drop set technique involves forcing your body to keep lifting non stop, every time reducing the amount of weight you carry. As an example, you may do some military press at 100 pounds for 10 repetitions and then continue to lift at 90 for 10 reps and so on.
There are some extremists that actually go to the point of dropping 10 pounds at a time until they are left with just the bar. These are of course extreme cases and are only practiced by advanced body builders. This is a very successful muscle building technique.
The next effective technique are supesets. They are essentially two or more workouts performed back to back, targeting opposite muscle groups with no rest between the workouts. These kinds of exercises shock your muscles with the amount of work and effort they involve, resulting in an effective muscle increase.
An example would be performing bicep curls followed by some tricep extensions or bench press followed by some single arm dumbbell row for your back. You could construct your own superset as long as the muscles you are working on are complement of each other.
The final technique called negatives are the most effective of the three. A negative is what most people don't think when they are weight lifting. When you lift weights and you push the weights away from you, your muscles contract and do a positive. As soon as you release the weight, you are now doing a negative. You in fact work the tendons more in a negative movement than you do a positive. This is the reason why I consider negatives as the best muscle building technique. This on the other hand makes it the most challenging technique to execute.
To summarize, weight lifting involves some good technique as well as any other sport. You are not limited to the three summarized above but those are what I think the most useful techniques. I wouldn't advise this for beginners as they might be shocked by the amount of effort they require. Nonetheless, you can opt to try the techniques for a day with the help of a trainer and see how your body reacts to the exercise. - 17273
The drop set technique involves forcing your body to keep lifting non stop, every time reducing the amount of weight you carry. As an example, you may do some military press at 100 pounds for 10 repetitions and then continue to lift at 90 for 10 reps and so on.
There are some extremists that actually go to the point of dropping 10 pounds at a time until they are left with just the bar. These are of course extreme cases and are only practiced by advanced body builders. This is a very successful muscle building technique.
The next effective technique are supesets. They are essentially two or more workouts performed back to back, targeting opposite muscle groups with no rest between the workouts. These kinds of exercises shock your muscles with the amount of work and effort they involve, resulting in an effective muscle increase.
An example would be performing bicep curls followed by some tricep extensions or bench press followed by some single arm dumbbell row for your back. You could construct your own superset as long as the muscles you are working on are complement of each other.
The final technique called negatives are the most effective of the three. A negative is what most people don't think when they are weight lifting. When you lift weights and you push the weights away from you, your muscles contract and do a positive. As soon as you release the weight, you are now doing a negative. You in fact work the tendons more in a negative movement than you do a positive. This is the reason why I consider negatives as the best muscle building technique. This on the other hand makes it the most challenging technique to execute.
To summarize, weight lifting involves some good technique as well as any other sport. You are not limited to the three summarized above but those are what I think the most useful techniques. I wouldn't advise this for beginners as they might be shocked by the amount of effort they require. Nonetheless, you can opt to try the techniques for a day with the help of a trainer and see how your body reacts to the exercise. - 17273
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