shocking the mucles?

[llrockyll]

pretty much i stay within the same rep range(6-10) week after week and i am getting stronger even still, but its been a year now so i was thinking staying between 6-10 reps 1 week then the next week 9-12 reps and keep going back and forth between the 2. is this enough to shock the muscle or should i just stick to what im doing since im getting stronger still.

[kfrost06]

If it ain't broke don't fix it. When I try to shock the muscle, I usually do it when my muscle stops responding to my current routine and when that happens I will switch up the exercises sometimes the order as well(e.g. instead of doing chest/tris and then back/is I'll do chest/bis and back/tris). When I switch to higher reps like your asking it's when I am trying to cut-up or working more for definition. I save lower reps for putting on strength and mass. However, it's always good to experiment and see what's best for your body it also adds spice to the work out which is always nice.

[skank]

If I wanted to shock muscles then I would just do different angles or a different lift that hits the same muscle. That also helps from going stale.

Changing the amount of reps is something else. Low reps for power. 8-12 for hypertrophy. 15+ for endurance. So unless you are changing your goal, stick with the same reps.

[llrockyll]

yeah i c what ur saying guys im gunna once a month just do my workout backwards for example instead of doing deadlifts, bent rows, then lat pull down. ill do lat pulldown, bent rows, then deadlifts.

[kfrost06]

I would try something different, like doing a different exercise, try bent dumbell rows or t-bar rows, pull ups, and cable rows. Switching the order doesn't sound good to me. I would never do deadlifts last either, I need to do them first exercise and then I need 2 weeks off from deadlifts, I go all out when I do deadlifts.

[shredzs]

I change atleast 1 part of every w/o to keep my muscles "guessing"
I also do my first excercise with generally heavy weights and low reps, as the w/o progresses i increase my reps dramatically finishing with a cpl of supersets with only enough time to get a drink of water in between.
works great 4 me

[dece870717]

I usually do 10,8,6 for cutting, 8,6,4 for bulking and 5,3,1 or 3,2,1 for strength training. And I basically never do or start with the same excercise for each muscle group every week. Example of my routine for Chest, one week I'll do dumbell flat, dumbell incline, dips or iso wide machine, dumbell flies, and burn out set of either push ups or flat bench until I can't do anymore. Next week for chest do decline bench, incline bench, machine flat, crossovers, and burn out of some sort, then next week do flat bench, incline bench, iso wide machine, machine flies and then burnout. And its basically like this for all muscle groups, one week it'll be dumbells for everything, then something else, only thing i don't change up is my leg excercise and so far I see no reason to, if u want to squat lots of weight keep doing squats.