Re: How to avoid plateaus

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You have to change your workouts every few weeks.steve doane wrote: I've plateaued a couple of times. What I do now is to make each workout very different from the previous. I.e. If I did five sets of long slow contractions per exercise on Wednesday, Friday's workout will be 20 contractions for definition ending with a last 10 second long hold. Then maybe Sunday 10 reps holding for 90 seconds at 30% strength at the end. Stuff like that. Idea is to trick the muscles into working.Ramses Pharoh wrote: Hi friends,I would like to know how does one avoid plateaus while using the bullworker.I have been using Bullworker 3

for about 5 months now and the progress seems to have reached a plateau.Thank you for the excellent responses to my earlier querries.Warm Regards. Do you have a question on a topic you cant find an Answer to. Try Yahoo! Answers IndiaGet the all new Yahoo! Messenger Beta Now Important information for U.S. consumers!:http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/uglykorea/index.html Feel free to call! Free PC-to-PC calls. Low rates on PC-to-Phone. Get Yahoo! Messenger with Voice

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First off, you have to define what you mean by plateau. If you mean

that you are not able to see strength increases on the BW meter,

then that is what we can work with.

Secondly, strength tends to develop in a fairly even and straight

line when YOU FIRST START TO TRAIN.

As you get stronger, you approach some practical limits on how much

stronger you are going to get. This is natural and everyone reaches

a place where your strength gains get slower and then simply stop.

So, what to do?

Well, for most folks, this is fine. Put another way, they are

already stronger than they likely NEED TO BE for everyday concerns.

Getting stronger then is more of a head issue, not a need issue.

If you want to push on and try to get stronger, it is simply useful

to know that this is more of an ego thing than it is a health or

need based thing.

If it were me, I would look at what strength athletes do to increase

their strength over a period of years. In fact, they normally

" wave " their resistence in cycles that go up and down in weight

regimines. This usually is worked out over a six to eight week

cycle.

With weights, this is fairly easy to do, as you simply change weight

on the bar.

with isos, not so easy.

The closest thing I can think of to do with the BW is to play with

the amount of effort that you exert. So, you may work in eight week

cycles where you start with say, 60% of your best effort and each

week bump that up 5% to end at max contractions.

Then, take a few days off and move back to 60% again and repeat the

cycle. If this works like weight training, the amount of movement on

the BW meter at the end of each cycle SHOULD indicate that you are

getting stronger.

I have never tried this myself (I am happy with my current strength

level) but it SHOULD work.

Anyone who does try it, let us know.

thanks

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> Hi friends,

>

> I would like to know how does one avoid plateaus while using the

bullworker.

>

> I have been using Bullworker 3 for about 5 months now and the

progress seems to have reached a plateau.

>

> Thank you for the excellent responses to my earlier querries.

>

> Warm Regards.

>

>

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Since you are happy with your current strength level you are probably

on more of a " maintenance " program. Could you please give a sample of

your work out and frequency? Gert Koelbel wrote you can maintain your

strength with a work out once every 7-14 days. Pete Sisco and

Little say the same thing with their Static Contraction Training and

Little's Max Contraction Training. Do you agree?

> >

> > Hi friends,

> >

> > I would like to know how does one avoid plateaus while using the

> bullworker.

> >

> > I have been using Bullworker 3 for about 5 months now and the

> progress seems to have reached a plateau.

> >

> > Thank you for the excellent responses to my earlier querries.

> >

> > Warm Regards.

> >

> >

> > ---------------------------------

> > Do you have a question on a topic you cant find an Answer to.

Try

> Yahoo! Answers India

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