Fitness N Muscle

When you constantly follow the same exercise routine, your muscles start to get used to that workout and this slows down your muscle growth to the point where they won't grow anymore-this process is called the plateau effect. There can be many ways to change up your workout to avoid a plateau. The following list is what we recommend to avoid hitting a plateau: 

1. Change your exercises - Change a couple of exercises in your routine and/or change up the order of your exercises.

2. Perform more sets and fewer exercises - Add 2 sets to each of your exercises and eliminate 1 or 2 exercises in your routine, so you end up finishing with the same amount of total sets in your workout. This is assuming you want to maintain the same duration of your workout.

3. Number of reps - Change your rep range. For example, if you are currently doing 8 reps, start doing 12, and vice versa.

4. Perform drop sets - Drop sets will increase the amount of stress you put on your muscles, which will cause you to better target both fast and slow muscle twitch fibers.

5. Change your grip - For most exercises, you can easily change the grip. For example, from underhand to overhand to palms facing each other, and from close to wide grip.