How Adding Magnets to Your Muscle Building Program Can Increase Your Gains

By Jason Ferruggia

Frank One of the most important things you can do in your muscle building program is to continually add more and more weight to the bar. Of course, you never want to sacrifice form for weight, but the point can not be hammered home enough; add weight whenever possible. You need to get strong if you want build muscle and gain weight. There’s no way around that fact. Volume, tempo, supersets, drop sets, pre exhaustion and post exhaustion are all methods that people use to try to avoid the inevitable. And that is adding weight to the bar. A lot of people are scared of heavy weights. But these people are small and weak; both physically and mentally. If you want to huge, you have to lift huge weights. There’s no other way around it.

As a beginner you can make huge weight jumps from one workout to the next. It’s not uncommon to go up fifty pounds in a month on a big exercise like a squat or deadlift. The gains come rapidly and seemingly have no end in sight.

The problem for some guys, however is that eventually you will probably start to plateau on certain lifts. There may come a time when adding even a two and a half pound plate to the bar may be too much for certain individuals. For strong guys this isn’t usually a problem but if you can only bench press one hundred pounds, adding two 2.5 pound plates equates to a 5% weight increase in one workout, which can be a lot for some people to handle.

On dumbbell exercises you’re in an even worse position because to jump from say, the fifty pound dumbbells up to the fifty fives equates to a ten pound total increase. Which in this particular case would be 20%. And that’s a huge jump from one workout to the next.

What I have had great success with over the years is incorporating Plate Mates into my muscle building program. These are small magnetic weights that come in 1.25 pounds and 5/8 pounds increments. Quite frankly, I think these are one of the greatest inventions in the history of the Iron Game. They can be added to plates or dumbbells to help you make smaller, and thus, more consistent weight increases. This was never possible before, especially on dumbbell exercises.
Now, instead of making five or ten pound jumps you can make 1.25 pound jumps or 2.5 pound jumps on both barbell and dumbbell exercises. Aside from the Plate Mates, you can usually find some companies online that make 1.25 pound plates that you can special order and bring to the gym with you or add to your home gym weight trees. But if you can’t find those, don’t even sweat it.

The Plate Mates can be found anywhere and will easily stick to any dumbbells or plates.

If you’ve hit a plateau recently, I highly recommend this awesome addition to your muscle building program.

For more great muscle building information, please visit http://www.musclegainingsecrets.com



	How Adding Magnets to Your Muscle Building Program Can Increase Your Gains By Jason Ferruggia One of the most important things you can do in your muscle building program is to continually add more and more weight to the bar. Of course, you never want to sacrifice form for weight, but the point can not be hammered home enough; add weight whenever possible. You need to get strong if you want build muscle and gain weight. There’s no way around that fact. Volume, tempo, supersets, drop sets, pre exhaustion and post exhaustion are all methods that people use to try to avoid the inevitable. And that is adding weight to the bar. A lot of people are scared of heavy weights. But these people are small and weak; both physically and mentally. If you want to huge, you have to lift huge weights. There’s no other way around it. As a beginner you can make huge weight jumps from one workout to the next. It’s not uncommon to go up fifty pounds in a month on a big exercise like a squat or deadlift. The gains come rapidly and seemingly have no end in sight. The problem for some guys, however is that eventually you will probably start to plateau on certain lifts. There may come a time when adding even a two and a half pound plate to the bar may be too much for certain individuals. For strong guys this isn’t usually a problem but if you can only bench press one hundred pounds, adding two 2.5 pound plates equates to a 5% weight increase in one workout, which can be a lot for some people to handle. On dumbbell exercises you’re in an even worse position because to jump from say, the fifty pound dumbbells up to the fifty fives equates to a ten pound total increase. Which in this particular case would be 20%. And that’s a huge jump from one workout to the next. What I have had great success with over the years is incorporating Plate Mates into my muscle building program. These are small magnetic weights that come in 1.25 pounds and 5/8 pounds increments. Quite frankly, I think these are one of the greatest inventions in the history of the Iron Game. They can be added to plates or dumbbells to help you make smaller, and thus, more consistent weight increases. This was never possible before, especially on dumbbell exercises. Now, instead of making five or ten pound jumps you can make 1.25 pound jumps or 2.5 pound jumps on both barbell and dumbbell exercises. Aside from the Plate Mates, you can usually find some companies online that make 1.25 pound plates that you can special order and bring to the gym with you or add to your home gym weight trees. But if you can’t find those, don’t even sweat it. The Plate Mates can be found anywhere and will easily stick to any dumbbells or plates. If you’ve hit a plateau recently, I highly recommend this awesome addition to your muscle building program. For more great muscle building information, please visit http://www.musclegainingsecrets.com Renegade Strength & Conditioning, LLC 453 Watchung Ave Watchung, NJ 07069

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