Hit A Plateau? Change Your Exercise Schedule
Jun 15th, 2011 | By Todd Bowman | Category: Exercises, Total Body Workouts
What do you do when you hit a plateau or hit a wall? If you’ve been following our workout program for any amount of time, you’re not the only one to have this happen to you. What do you do? Change your exercise schedule. In this video, Bodybuilding guru Vince Delmonte says that this is the key to busting through a muscle plateau. It will allow you to continue making gains.
Hitting a plateau simply means that you get to a point where you hit a mental barrier. A point to which you mentally cannot go further in terms of lifting more weight. This happens primarily because people are lifting with incorrect form.
For example, if you’re doing squats and you have bad form when you’re lifting light weight you build up strength just like everybody else. But when it comes to a point where you’re lifting heavy weight, your incorrect form or posture is what’s going to prevent you from making gains.
Why is this so?
It’s has to do with proper weight distribution on the wrong joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles on your body. You want the major muscle groups doing the bulk of the heavy lifting. If a certain percentage of the weight you’re lifting is distributed to your lower back (using the example of squats) which is a much weaker muscle than your quadriceps, then you’ll hit a wall that you feel you can’t bust through.
This has a negative effect in 3 days.
- It robs growth and strength from your thighs
- It puts undue stress and tension on an area of your body that can’t handle it causing injuries.
- It causes you to hit a plateau which could takes weeks to bust through, thus robbing you of time.
So training correctly in proper physiological body alignment is critical from the beginning.
The other way to bust through plateaus is to switch up your workout schedule ever 4-6 weeks. This has worked wonders for me and my training regime.
You don’t want to go the gym and do the same exact workout, with the same number of reps, the same number of sets and the same amount of weight day after day after day.
Instead, can them, get rid of those workouts. Instead, change your exercise schedule and you’ll start making gains. To continue to undergo the identical, daily regime doesn’t do your body any good. You’re working the same muscles everyday and since those muscles are very aware of the routine, they don’t have to exert any extra energy to accomplish what they accomplished yesterday.
Tomorrow find a new exercise. Start making gains with that new exercise. If you’ve hit a plateau, look at the exercise you’ve plateaued on. But just because you’ve plateaued on that one exercise, doesn’t mean you plateaued for life. You haven’t. You just need to change your exercise schedule. Look for a new routine.
Your body hasn’t reached its maximum genetic potential just because you can’t increase your weight on this one specific exercise. You’ve just plateaued on this one specific movement. Your body is to used to it. You’ve got to look for a new exercise and start making gains on a new angle. You need to find another chest exercise and start making gains on that exercise. Maybe you want to go to the flat bench, for example.
Once you’ve plateaued on that exercise for 2-3 workouts in a row, then come back the incline bar bell press.
If you start applying that tip to every single one of your workouts, Vince guarantees that you’ll actually start getting closer to your true, true genetic potential. Change your exercise schedule and you’ll never, hit a plateau ever again.
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