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Weight lifting, for it to be efficient should require some helpful muscle building techniques. These techniques are intended for advanced body building who have achieved specific plateaus in their workouts. The following techniques are drop sets, super sets and negatives.

The drop set technique involves forcing your body to keep lifting non stop, every time reducing the amount of weight you carry. As an example, you may do some military press at 100 pounds for 10 repetitions and then continue to lift at 90 for 10 reps and so on.

There are some extremists that actually go to the degree of reducing 10 pounds at a time until they are left with just the bar. These should not be practiced by all though and are only suggested for advanced weight lifters with a training partner. A very successful muscle building technique.

The next effective technique are supesets. They are essentially two or more workouts performed back to back, targeting opposite muscle groups with no rest between the workouts. These kinds of exercises shock your muscles with the amount of work and effort they involve, resulting in an effective muscle increase.

A great example would be performing some bench press followed by some bent over row or single arm curls followed by tricep extensions. You can construct your own superset as long as the muscles you are working on are complement of each other.

The last technique called negatives are the most effective of the three. A negative is what most people don’t think about when they are weight lifting. When you lift weights and you push the weights away from you, your muscles contract and perform a positive. As you lower the weights or let go the tension you are performing a negative. You in fact work the tendons more in a negative movement than you do a positive. This is the reason why I consider negatives as the best muscle building technique. This on the other hand makes it the most challenging technique to perform.

To sum it all up, weight lifting is not all about who can carry the most, there are also techniques involed like any other sport. The three I’ve mentioned above are what I consider to be the best muscle building techniques for more experienced weight lifters. As a disclaimer though, these are not suggested for everyone especially starters who are just starting out. Nevertheless, you can opt to try the techniques for a day with the help of a trainer and see how your body reacts to the workout.

Check out some weight lifting workouts to add to your muscle building techniques.

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