Increase Your Training Intensity - Pre-ExhaustionWritten by Rick Mitchell
You can only build muscle tissue if you can generate progressively stronger muscular contractions, so this calls for an emphasis on finding ways to increase exercise intensity. This should not be confused with exercise duration as maximum training intensity will actually shorten time needed to achieve maximal muscular growth.In an earlier article I outlined ways in which you can intensify your training. Here we'll focus on role that pre-exhaustion has to play in intensifying training effect. When an exercise employs two or more muscles it will be impossible to achieve failure for primary muscle as weakest muscle will give out first. This is perhaps best explained by giving an example. When targeting chest, most exercises involve use of triceps which is a relatively small and weak muscle. When performing incline bench press for example, triceps will fail before pectorals have opportunity to work to failure thus limiting value of exercise.
| | Exercise The Right Way - The CrunchWritten by Rick Mitchell
Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing basic exercises that constitute core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using correct techniques before moving on to potentially more dangerous heavy weights. If it also helps more experienced lifters to redress some of little faults that have almost imperceptibly crept in over years, all better.
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