Plateau Buster: light weight high rep

One of the most effective ways to bust out of a plateau and shock your muscles into growing new muscle is to lighten the load and go increase your reps.

its been long argued that light weight and high reps is for fat loss and heavy weight low reps is for muscle growth. This article isn’t about that, but heavy weight and moderate reps (8 – 10) is best. This is because by using as much weight as you can, you’re damaging more muscle tissue, in turn rebuilding more muscle. . More muscle burns more calories . . More calories means more fat loss. .

Back to the high reps for plateau busting. . Its a simple and effective way to shock your muscles, but it is in no way an excuse to not workout hard. As a matter of fact, I implemented it into my routine today and it was one of my hardest workouts this month.

I find this works especially well for legs. Simply choose a weight you can achieve 15 – 20 reps with and no more than that, and concentrate on having perfect form. Like I said, I implemented it into my workout today which happened to be legs and I felt like I worker harder than my normal heavy routine.

Good luck, Get BIG!

- Anthony