How to Set Higher Personal Bests Every Week
If you are a low rep high weight lifter, then you know what your bests are for most exercises. With proper diet and rest this lifting style is best suited for mass gains and ever increasing strength. There is a technique to speed up your muscle growth
by allowing for continual setting of new highs for every major exercise
you do. Muscle building pro’s use it every day. So should you.
The first thing you must understand is that to be big you MUST lift big.
If you do not try and lift weights that your muscles can’t handle, then
how will they ever learn and grow to handle it? Doing 16 reps of
exercises is fine if your goal is to be fit. But if the goal is to be
huge then drop the reps down to 6 at most, and increase your weight
accordingly. Truly failing on the sixth rep is where it’s at for mass
gains.
The second thing you must understand is that lifting is as much about
the mind as body. You know it’s true. Don’t you just “feel†stronger
when you think someone is watching you lift? Especially if that person
is someone you are wanting to impress. That’s simply called “getting
you mind rightâ€. Successful lifters ALWAYS THINK they CAN lift whatever
is on the bar. Unsuccessful muscle builders think about “how heavy that
is going to beâ€.
So low rep high weight lifting with the mind set that you can lift
what ever is the starting point. The truth is that you CANâ€T lift
whatever. Your muscles won’t allow it. But you CAN make your mind fool
yourself into doing it a couple times. Here’s how.
You will do 6 sets of the bench press (or whatever exercise you
wish). Set 1 is at 50% of your one rep max. Do 6 reps. Set 2 is at 75%
max weight, 6 reps. Set 3 is at 90% max weight, do only 2 reps. Set 4
you drop the weight down to 60% of your max and do only 4 reps. Set 5
is at your max plus 5%. Do as many as you can. Set 6 is back to 75% of
your old max weight to total failure.
What happens here is that on the third set at 90% of your max your
muscles are truly challenged, but not exhausted because of doing only 2
reps. By dropping down to 60% on the forth set it “reboots†your mind
to the light weight feel. When you attempt your new best on the fifth
set it takes your MIND a couple reps to register just HOW HEAVY the
weight is. If you have the successful muscle building mind set you will
be able to blast out a couple before your body and mind “catches on†to
how heavy the weight is. The sixth set re-establishes sanity and you
exhaust the muscle.
You can do this every week for one major compound lift. So with consistency of training, nutrition
and rest, each month you can set new bests on the bench, squat, lat
pull down and military press. That is why you lift isn’t it?
