Thread: Shock workouts

Here is a website you can look at that gives you some routines

http://ironmagazine.com/article65.html

At the end of a workout, cut your barbell curl working weight in half, and bust out 30-40 reps till failure with a spotter. This definetly shocks my arms and shoulders big time. The same for flat bench, etc. I call it a "drop set", not sure what the correct term for this is? I do it a few times a month.

Do some supersets once or twice a month. Combine a compound movement with an isolation movement. These are always part of my "shock" routines.

the only way i have found to shock my body is to stick a butter knife in an electrical socket. other than that i don't know how you can shock your muscles.

i just got back from the gym where i did a back/front workout to change up my routine and since i'd been out of the gym for a week. i did everything supersetting big back and big chest exercises, putting the weights a little below where i would normally be at each respective set. after the first exercise i went immediatly into my second with as little time between as possible.
my lift went:

Flat barbell press / bent over barbell row

pull ups / dips ( i didnt do this first because i can do serious amounts of pull ups and dips if im not weighted so i wanted to be a bit fatigued)

standing dumbell shoulder presses / close grip machine pulldowns

then i threw in an arm superset because there were some hot ladies in the gym and i wanted maximum pump

dumbell hammer curls / overhand grip tricep pressdowns

finished with dumbell pullovers.

i got pretty dam pumped from this, and felt good after. i was lifting weights for almost 1.5 hours. the key is it was a big change from my normal splits i do, i think that is what is really important when you feel stale.

Curse