What is the best way to build muscle?
When it comes to building muscle, the most important thing is finding ways to reach failure in order to ensure muscle hypertrophy. Many know that this can be accomplished by increasing the amount of weight they lift or the number of reps they perform, but most people don’t realize that there are other ways to accomplish this as well. For those of you who are unfamiliar with drop sets, a drop set is when you perform a set of an exercise until failure, then immediately reduce the weight and perform more reps until you reach failure at the reduced weight. An example of how to implement this technique would be performing bicep curls using a barbell with a few weights on each side and continuously removing one weight from each side every time you reach failure, then immediately continuing with the lighter weight, until there is no longer any weight on the barI believe some people refer to these as pyramids. While this is effective, I’ve found an easier way to ...