Your body is the supreme control freak — yes, even more so than your ex-girlfriend. Every cell strives to know what is coming around the corner and prepare for it. To become familiar — to make life routine with no surprises, which is good when it comes to staying alive, but a huge obstacle when it comes to building muscle. To get bigger, leaner and stronger you will have to break the grip of time and habit which has taught your body to adapt and remain the same. Human nature’s tendency to continually repeat the familiar also kicks in and further shackles us to the training routines we have done for years.
Are you ready to take back control and give your body no choice but to grow? You will need to shock it by creating mayhem and confusion — blasting it from directions and angles it has never experienced. Here is the perfect weapon that your body can’t counter. The definition of training chaos — dynamic set training.
Dynamic set training starts with opening your mind — especially if you have a few years of training experience. Here a complete beginner has an advantage over a seasoned gym rat. You will be temporarily abandoning familiar routines (not easy if you have been training for a while) and throwing all sorts of new patterns at your body. Different numbers of sets, reps, exercises, timing patterns — all constantly changing and never remaining static. How can your body know what’s coming and adapt if you can barely keep track of this rotisserie of workout schemes?
Dynamic set training is designed to confuse and exhaust your muscles and require your body to recruit more muscle fibres to handle the extreme workload. This added recruitment forces growth and helps break through strength plateaus. Dynamic set training uses many multiple set, single set, continuing rep, and eccentric or negative training schemes. You will have to lower your weights to complete these workouts — yes, it is that hard. Dumbbell chest press with 25-pound bells? Yup, and you will cry like a theatre full of menopausal women at the first screening of Titanic.
Dynamic set training is intense — you will breathe hard and endure pain. There is little rest between sets and you will push beyond the barriers of normal fatigue and complete your workouts in 30 minutes or less. It is easy to over-train, thus I will repeat, it is necessary to start with lighter weights and work up. Those with big egos might want to train at home or in private to check the urge to start too heavy.
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