Variables... Change it up!!

Variables.
These are what make up our workouts, and by manipulating these variables, we can see results faster. Whether you are trying to lose weight, gain muscle, or both, these tips will help you. Most people think that the only way to change up there routine and make it more difficult is increasing weight or reps, not true.Variables include, weight, reps, rest periods, exercise order, tempo of reps,stability challenges while performing exercises and combining two exercises or more into one.
Here are some examples:
Don't want to keep increasing the weight? Slow down the reps! four seconds down. one second pause and two seconds up.
Put exercises back to back or in a circuit of 3 to keep heart rate high.
Add stability: use a stability ball instead of a bench on any exercise or use dumbells instead of a bar/ machine. Try standing on a bosu (half ball) while doing curls.
Take a shorter rest in between sets, or if you want to get big, take a longer one!
Put two exercises together like a squat row. Get on a cable machine with a row bar and set it to the bottom, simply squat with your arms straight and then row as you stand up.
You can also do a lunge curl. Hold a dumbell in each hand, lunge down and on the way up, curl the dumbells. When you lunge down again bring the dumbells back down to your sides. Do this ten times and then switch legs. Hope this helps!! Please email me if there is a particular subject you want me to blog about. Jason