Prepare your excercise routine in such manner
that instead of working out entire body everyday you spilt your
body-parts and perform them individually or in pair.For example
you can pair your 'arms with back','chest with shoulder','legs
with abdomen' etc.
2)Pyramid Training :-
During your training session start with light weights with higher
reps (15 to 20) and then in every next set increase the weight
gradually and decrease the reps(5 to 8).
3)Rules Of Muscle Priority
:- Hit your weakest body part first during your
excercide routine when you can train it with more more intensity
because your energy level is higher.For eg. if your arms are weak
then train your arms first during your 'arms-back' routine day.
4)Progressive Overload
Principles :- Under this basic rule it is stressed
that you increase your Excercise Intensity in a progressive manner
over a period of time and allow your muscles work harder next
session. It can be increased by lifting more weights than the
last session or by doing more reps or sets or by decreasing your
rest period between sets.
5) Rules of continuous
tension: Donot rest at the top or bottom of the movement
of an excercise.Control both the up and down movements so that
the entire range of motion is smooth and continuous process maintaining
a constant tension in the muscles.
6) Rules of muscles
confusion :- Intermediate to advanced bodybuilders
should constantly keep confusing body muscles by changing the
excersise variables i.e. order of excercises , no. of sets, no.
of reps, length of rest periods etc.
7) Isolation training
rules :- It is an advanced technique to single
out an individual muscle and force it to grow. Preacher curl for
biceps, press down for triceps etc. are examples of isolation
training.
8) Compound sets :-
Perform two different excercises of same muscles group back
to back without any rest in between. For example shoulder press
with dumbbells followed by front raise.
9) Super sets :-
It is just opposite of compound set technique. Perform two
different excercises of the two different muscle group back to
back without any rest in between. For example biceps curl followed
by triceps extension.
10) Principles of forced
rep :- At the end of your each set let your training
partner or a spotter help you do few more reps and force you to
go beyond muscular failure. The training partner should apply
only enough force to help you overcome the sticking point.
11) Pre-exhaustion Principles
:- This principles applies to advanced body builders
to overcome the stagnation. In this technique of excercise you
first pre-exhaust a muscle with a specific excercise and then
move to multijoint excercise involving that muscle.For example
you dips for your chest and then move on to bench press. Another
example is you do Leg-extension first and then move on to squat.
12) Rest pause principles
:- This principle is just opposite to continuous
tension in as much that in this you take brief rest during the
set and squeeze few more reps and again take a brief rest of about
30 to 40 seconds and do another few reps. However you should apply
this principle only when you are working out with your training
partner.
13) Principles of negative
rep :- Under this rule while positive part (lifting
part) is helped by a spotter because you cannot lift any more
rep, the negative part (lowering weights) is performed by yourself
without help.
14) Drop sets :-
In this set, after performing maximum No. of reps, about
15% of weights are reduced and immediately few more reps are performed.
Again about 15% of weights are reduced and immediately few more
reps are performed without help. |