We have just posted another great article on the main UP website detailing intensity techniques on how to get the absolute maximum from any set of just about any exercise that you will ever do. It’s written by UP London personal trainer Michael Hoad, who has rapidly established himself as one the “go-to” personal trainers in London for generating maximum muscular gains in the minimum amount of time. As you’d expect from a UP personal trainer, Michael “lives the life” and is supremely dedicated both to his own training and in continuing to learn and grow in the UP constant quest for more knowledge to stay at the very top of this fantastic business of personal training. I myself am constantly picking up new tricks (perhaps less on the exercise side and more on the medical side these days) and bounce out of bed every day buzzing with what we are going to come up with next at UP!
Tom Platz- the hardest trainer of them all?
The article itself can be found by clicking on this link – “Extend The Set Training For Greater Muscular Gains” – but a short precis to wet your appetite is that Michael deals very comprehensively with a range of classic bodybuilding intensity (“intensity” in this context meaning “to make more difficult and painful” as opposed to the classic strength training definition of percentage of 1 rep maximum). He covers to name just a few:
Drop Sets / Negatives / Forced Negatives / Cheating / Rest-Pause / shortening the lever / changing the angle.
I highly recommend this great article written by a great personal trainer to all of you who want to push you own training to the next level. He has picked techniques that we have used in bodybuilding circles for decades: techniques that sort the men from the boys. If you want to see an example of multiple techniques (cheating / changing angle / forced reps) click on the video below of the AMAZING Tom Platz, a bodybuilding icon from the the 1980s in an era when brutal bodybuilding training was everything. Be warned though – only ever try this if you have a few years experience in the gym to your credit.
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