Do You Need To "Shock" Your Muscles?

Does Shocking your muscles really work?

Sometimes I feel people can misconstrue the intensity of training programme as a tactic to "shock" muscle into growth. The reality is, you don't "shock" a muscle into growing, your programming should always create the opportunity for new forms of hypertrophy to take place, within different thresholds.

For instance, if your programming has a:

• Multitude of repetition ranges you cycle through week to week
   
• Fluid rep ranges which don't always remain the same
   
• Periodisation which allows for progressive overload to take place (within all rep ranges)

You have increased your potential of building muscle, exponentially!

Implying you "shock" a muscle into growth just means you're trying something new, but the reality is, your programming should present a plethora of training variables, in an organised structure so that you are effectively "shocking" the muscle with new stimulus.

But, just understand this is actually a planned process. 

Doing things just for the sake of "shock" is not going to build muscle optimally, over the long-term. 

As soon as you buy into the fact you must use structure, with progression built-in, along with the broad range of training variables, the positive changes you see in your physique will be:

1) Far more consistent 

2) Far more predictable 

3) Far less frustrating! 

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