1282: The #1 Key to Consistently Building Muscle & Strength (Avoid Plateaus!)
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin go over nine different ways to manipulate your workouts to avoid plateaus and keep building muscle and strength.
- Understanding all the different types of ways that you can progressively overload the body. (2:31)
- Can I get myself stronger? The importance of manipulating weight. (6:06)
- The Mind Pump philosophy of employing different rep ranges. (11:32)
- The Mind Pump formula for tracking your volume for the intermediate to the experienced lifter. (18:11)
- The value of increasing your range of motion through mobility training. (23:18)
- Shaping and perfecting your skill and technique. (29:51)
- Focusing on the mind to muscle connection. (35:21)
- Paying attention to the tempo of your workout to build muscle. (41:38)
- Manipulating rest periods for muscle adaptation. (45:07)
- Just add more intensity. (48:30)
- Why you can make GREAT progress at-home! (50:30)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- April Promotion: MAPS Prime/Prime Pro ½ off! **Code “PRIME50” at checkout**
- Special Promotion: MAPS Anywhere ½ off!! **Code “WHITE50” at checkout**
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People Mentioned
Ben Pakulski (@bpakfitness) Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we cover the most important key that gets you consistent muscle building and strength progress. |
| 0:23.0 | And also helps you burn body fat. |
| 0:26.0 | Now what we're talking about is progressive overload, but there's many, many ways to do this to your body. |
| 0:32.0 | Now you know to add more weight when you get stronger. That's only one way to do it. |
| 0:36.0 | There's eight other ways to progressively overload your body to get your body to consistently improve time and time again for long lasting success and results. |
| 0:47.0 | Now this episode is brought to you by Maps Fitness Products. |
| 0:51.0 | Now they are the makers and leaders in the fitness industry of the best at home workout programs like Maps Anywhere. |
| 0:58.0 | They also have phenomenal mobility programs, Maps Prime and Maps Prime Pro and many, many other programs. |
| 1:05.0 | By the way, two of their most popular programs, Maps Prime and Maps Prime Pro are both 50% off and there's only one day left for this promotion. |
| 1:16.0 | Now these programs are flying off the shelves. We're only giving them away with wild supplies last, so you might want to act very quickly. |
| 1:23.0 | But let me tell you a little bit about Maps Prime and Maps Prime Pro. |
| 1:25.0 | Maps Prime is a program that teaches you how to prime your workouts. |
| 1:30.0 | Now priming is different than a warm-up. Priming gets your body ready to move better, have better ranges of motion, and to recruit more muscle fibers. |
| 1:39.0 | In other words, if you do a proper individualized for your body, priming session, 10 minutes before your workout, your squats, bench presses, overhead presses, your rows, your lunges, all your exercises will become much more effective. |
| 1:53.0 | Now Maps Prime Pro is all about correctional exercise. |
| 1:57.0 | This program goes through the major joints of your body, helps you improve your mobility so that you have greater ranges of motion, that you have more control over, reduce injury, and of course, because of better mobility. |
| 2:08.0 | Develop more muscle faster and get better results. |
| 2:12.0 | Again, both of those programs, 50% off, this is the final day. You only have one day left for this massive promotion. |
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