VARIATIONS IN HYPERTROPHY TRAINING——增大肌肉体积训练的变化
SPLIT ROUTINE: Since in body building (Hypertrophy) the athlete performs 2-3 exercises per muscle groups and since they address every muscle in the body, one may have to be in the gym for at least half of the day if he/she expects to finish the entire program. Even if the athlete may have the energy to do it, time constraints represents as important limitation. Hence, the solution is to divide the total volume of work into parts, addressing each day to one part of the body, therefore, the "split routine". Under these conditions even if an athlete trains 5-5 times per week, an actual muscle group is worked-out 1-2 times per week.
ASSISTED REPETITIONS: As an athlete performs a set to temporary exhaustion of the neuromuscular system, a partner assists the performer with sufficient support to be able to perform 2-3 repetitions.
RESISTIVE REPETITIONS: The athlete performs a set to temporary exhaustion. The partner assists the athlete to perform another 2-3 repetitions concentricaly but provides some resistance for the eccentric segment of contraction for each of the additional repetitions. As the muscles are in longer tension the muscles metabolism is stronger activated, stimulating muscle growth beyond the standard norms.
SUPER SET: Represents a method in which the athlete performs a set for the agonistic muscle of a given joint, followed without a rest period by a set for the antagonistic muscles. Variations may performed, for example perform a set to exhaustion, followed after 20-30 seconds by another set for the same muscle group. Another variation may be pre-exhaustion, before a large muscle groups are contracted the small muscles have to be pre-exhausted so that during the actual work the whole load will be taken only by the large muscle groups.
EXTRA TID BITS: Even if the split routine method is used for hypertrophy workouts, they are very exhausting, and often a training session may have 75-160 or more repetitions performed. Such a high muscle loading requires a long recovery following a training session. Therefore, one may assume that heavy workouts are done to complete exhaustion, and one should not perform this type of workout no more than 3 times per week.