Muscle confusion to keep growing

Fitness Gabriela Gottau 16 March 2011 | 15: 15 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

More than once we have heard that the muscle has memory and some truth is hidden in this assertion because our muscles are adapted to a stimulus which if repeated in time, not demand its improvement and growth, therefore the movements become automatic and little intense.

A great help to keep growing is the principle of muscle confusion raised by Weider, posed by the need for change and surprise our body so that the muscle not gets used but always receive stimuli to progress into the strength training routine.

We can use several strategies that they will demand greater effort and thus will allow growth to confuse the muscle:

Increase the weight: this may be the strategy that all tend to use and that you can be of great value when we started in strength, but we can not always continue increasing weight, since our joints suffer in the long term.Change the Division of the routine: can train with different muscle groups, for example: If a day train back and another chest, biceps and triceps, we can change and train chest and back in a single day to get the stimulus of antagonistic and greater muscle congestion.Change the order of exercises: can completely change the routine and start with the last financial year to end the first, in order to request and exhausting different muscles at the beginning before it did not because they were left to the end.Modify the exercises: work the muscles with different movements also will involve a surprise for them, for this reason, you can change the traditional exercises by others requesting same muscle group.Use different teams: use once dumbbells, another day pulleys and other bars or machines, also prompted the muscles differently and above all, will mean that you need more concentration to perform the movements, which no doubt will no longer be an automatic movement to be more attentive and effective.

These are great resources for effective muscle confusion and not fail to grow with the training, you can also achieve greater attention when entrenas by modifying other factors, for example: the place, the partner, the hour of the day. Anything that prevents the realization of automatic movements and without higher demands to the muscles will be useful to not fail to stimulate growth.

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