Hey all I hope my entry finds you well and having a great week. In this entry I would like to discuss what I call
shock sets. Now what are shock sets? The body is very adaptive, and to continue to make changes and progress, you need to break through the inevitable plateaus you experience. This is where shock sets come in.
So as we just mentioned, your body wants to maintain normal state or homeostasis. It doesn't want to feel uncomfortable and always wants to know what's coming so it has the resources to combat it. This is why a lot of times you find that you hit a plateau, where no progress is being made. This is where we need to throw the body a curveball and integrate things that the body hasn't experienced before, shock sets.
Some of my favorite shock sets include drop sets, supersets, descending sets, pyramiding down, Etc. Let's talk about this. for instance let's discuss the drop set. Now let's say you're working on a chest press, and you start off with your heaviest weight which is a hundred pounds. Once you finish your set and can't do any more drop it down to 90 pounds keep on going. This is a good example of a drop set and this will definitely shock your body.
Another example of a shock set that I like to utilize is a superset. In simplest terms, a superset is just doing back-to-back sets with no rest. You could do two sets, 3 sets, whatever works best for you. But by not giving yourself rest this is going to shock your body.
There are so many different examples of shock sets, maybe I'll get into it in another article. But just want to get the point across that if you are experiencing a plateau you got to try to throw in some Shock sets to continue to progress. Best of luck!
Hey all I hope my entry finds you well and having a great week. In this entry I would like to discuss what I call shock sets. Now what are shock sets? The body is very adaptive, and to continue to make changes and progress, you need to break through the inevitable plateaus you experience. This is where shock sets come in.
So as we just mentioned, your body wants to maintain normal state or homeostasis. It doesn't want to feel uncomfortable and always wants to know what's coming so it has the resources to combat it. This is why a lot of times you find that you hit a plateau, where no progress is being made. This is where we need to throw the body a curveball and integrate things that the body hasn't experienced before, shock sets.
Some of my favorite shock sets include drop sets, supersets, descending sets, pyramiding down, Etc. Let's talk about this. for instance let's discuss the drop set. Now let's say you're working on a chest press, and you start off with your heaviest weight which is a hundred pounds. Once you finish your set and can't do any more drop it down to 90 pounds keep on going. This is a good example of a drop set and this will definitely shock your body.
Another example of a shock set that I like to utilize is a superset. In simplest terms, a superset is just doing back-to-back sets with no rest. You could do two sets, 3 sets, whatever works best for you. But by not giving yourself rest this is going to shock your body.
There are so many different examples of shock sets, maybe I'll get into it in another article. But just want to get the point across that if you are experiencing a plateau you got to try to throw in some Shock sets to continue to progress. Best of luck!
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