Sooner or later, you will experience the Bodybuilding Plateau. This is the point where you will be unable to increase your strength or add to the number of reps and sets.

If you have lifted weights for awhile, then I’m sure you’ve reach a point in your workouts where you were unable to do any more reps then you did in the previous weeks. Here’s a tip that bodybuilders use to overcome that roadblock and reach their full potential.

What you need to do is change your workout and perform some other type of movement. Lets say for example you’re bench pressing 10 reps at 200lbs for the past 3 weeks. In order to break this cycle, you need to switch your exercise and do another chest workout like the dips or incline bench press. This will give your muscles a new and different movement. Later, if you hit another plateau on the new workout, you can change back to the bench press, but this time you will be at a higher level then you were before.

Staying with the chest example, here are some different exercises you can switch to…

• Bench Press
• Dips
• Push Ups
• Incline Bench Press
• Decline Bench Press
• Flys

This technique can be used for any exercise you have reached a barrier. Switch exercises whenever you’ve hit your Bodybuilding Plateau and you will never be held back from reaching your full potential.