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Muscle confusion is something you've probably heard of if you stay up on the latest bodybuilding and fitness trends. It is very popular muscle growing theory, that says that keeping your muscles guessing and really varying your exercises is what keeps your muscles growing week after week.
If you were to change or cycle your workouts to involve different exercises, your body will not develop a tolerance to the training.When you trick your body into responding equally to workouts every week by doing different exercises, it does not build a tolerance. Instead it builds muscle mass fast to respond to each workout.
You may be able to relate to what I'm talking about. Have you ever done the bench press for several weeks and noticed that you don't gain any considerable strenght after the first few weeks?The way to get around this problem would be to continue to work out your chest, but mix up the routine by adding barbell lifts and hammer strength machine lifts to it.When you are using different exercises, you are putting pressure on different parts of muscle groups, and this ensures much more well-rounded muscle mass growth.
People whose jobs depend on making others grow muscle, personal trainers, have really been practicing muscle confusion for a long time. It has now become more popular among the general public and regular joe weightlifters.
In addition to varying the type of exercises, you also want to mix up the order of exercises.If you have been using a bench press followed by a rowing machine and then dumb bells, switch the order around as often as possible.
You must be structured to make this plan effective, that is why its important to plan your workout routines far in advance so you know you're getting good diversity.Mark down on a calender what type and order of exercises you will be doing for the next 4 weeks.Make sure you building a wide variety of equipment into your plan, use machines, dumbells, barbells and your body weight.
Another thing that is important when you are using the principle of muscle confusion is to push yourself each and every set. You must keep pumping out the reps until it is really burning. You want to get that good hard pump each and every set. That is when the most muscle tissue is broken down, which in turn means that that much more is going to be built up again. That will make your muscle much bigger than if you kinda cruise on through your weight lifting sets without pushing yourself.
