How To Progress In Muscle Building With The Rest Pause Technique

ByWilliam Coulter

Today I am going to show you how to progress in muscle building. This is one of the most important aspects of building muscle, which many people ignore or overlook. The biggest mistake many people make is doing the same thing over and over again without making any real progress. For the record; I am not talking about changing the exercises you do to shake things up a bit.

If you want to build muscle, you have to be lifting more weight or doing more work with the same weight every week (or every other week).

If you are not doing this all you are doing is maintaining your current size and strength levels.

Therefore you must be lifting more or doing more volume each week. This can become troublesome for several reasons. The main reasons are that it is hard to constantly lift more weight or reps each week. There will come a time when this becomes very hard and almost impossible. If it was easy; we would all be lifting huge weights and sporting massive guns.

Therefore it is great to have some progression techniques that force you to lift more each week. Today I will be showing you the fantastic Rest Pause Technique.

Rest Pause Technique

The Rest Pause Technique is a fairly simple method to use for progression, but a very effective one. In a nutshell - you basically perform a set of reps as normal, only you take small 10 second rest after you hit failure before trying to lift some more reps.

So for example if you were doing bench presses you would do say 8 reps and rack the weight, rest for 10 seconds, try for another few reps and get a few more reps done. That is the rest pause technique. It is a great muscle building method because you are forcing your body to do more reps, rather than doing one straight set and finishing. There are many different ways of using the rest pause technique, but I will show you a great way to use it with your current program.

You can use this rest pause training in 3 week blocks. On week 1 you do your workout as normal, without using the rest pause method. On week 2 - perform all your sets as normal until the last set of each exercise. When you finish your last set rack the weight and rest for 10 seconds before doing another mini-set with the rest pause method. For week 3 - perform all your sets as normal until the last set of each exercise. On the last set finish as normal and rack the weight, rest 10 seconds then do a few more reps. Rest for another 10 seconds and try for a few extra reps so that you do another 2 extra mini-sets.

In summary: For week 1 you do your workout as normal; Week 2 you do one extra mini-set using the rest pause; Week 3 you do two extra mini-sets using the rest pause method. On week 4 you can increase the weight and start over again.

Can you now see the potential using this technique? You are forcing your body to more reps every week and making real progress at the same time!

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