Are Partial Reps The Answer
For Serious Muscle Growth?

From 2-hour marathon workouts to partial reps and everything in between, only the truly beneficial muscle gain principles stand the test of time. In the world of lean muscle gain, many "unworthy" weight training fads have certainly come and gone.

As you progress and mature in your free weight training plan for lean muscle gain, you begin to figure out what worked in the past rarely works today!

To put it bluntly...in order to continue to gain lean muscle mass, you must constantly apply stimulation to your muscles.

In the beginning, you set out on your quest to gain muscle mass with the best of intentions. After a while, you increase the amount of weight that you are using and your muscles respond by growing.

During this phase, it seems like the only thing you need to do to grow, is to steadily increase the amount of weight that you're lifting.

In order to continuously increase the amount of weight that you're using, you put a few training methods like partial reps and heavy eccentric reps to the test.

What Are Partial Reps...

"Partial reps are an advanced training method. To add partial reps, perform very heavy repetitions through a limited portion of the full exercise, in hopes of increasing your strength through the full range of motion."

What Are Eccentric Reps...

"Eccentric repetitions are an advanced training technique that requires you to focus your energy on performing the "negative" portion of each exercise. This muscle building technique has been proven to increase muscular strength!"

The main idea behind both of these training techniques, is to increase your muscular strength in hopes that it will lead to a corresponding increase in lean muscle mass.

The reality of the muscle gain situation is such that... 

As time goes on, your body adapts and simply increasing the weight with which you perform each exercise is not enough to keep the steady stream of muscle mass coming.

While implementing advanced weight training techniques like partial reps and eccentric workouts are a great way to stimulate muscle growth in the beginning stages of your muscle gain program...after time your body will adapt to this type of overload, and you will stop gaining lean muscle mass!

The point that I am trying to make here is this...

After you have achieved a certain level of pre-conditioning and muscular strength, absolutely go ahead and try some of the advanced training techniques like partial reps and eccentric training.

Implementing them in a safe and intelligent way can help you pack on slabs of rock hard lean muscle mass in the beginning! But only when implemented in moderation.

In order to offset the conditioned level of your muscles, you'll need to get creative and implement new training styles and techniques to ensure new muscle growth.

Some of the popular choices here include:

• Volume Training (Less Weight - More Reps, Increasing the number of sets)
  

• Same exercises different equipment (Barbell Exercises To Dumbbell Exercises)
  

• Increasing the intensity of the workout (1 very heavy/intense set to failure)
  

• Adding bodybuilding and nutritional supplement to your diet

And on and on and on!

As far a lean muscle gain is concerned, here's the bottom line...

Don't be like everybody else and continue to perform the same old stale and uninspired bodybuilding program day after day...week after week, expecting to achieve amazing muscle gain results - It simply won't happen!

If you continue to do the same thing day after day after day, and expect to get different results than you have been experiencing, you are flat out kidding yourself!

If you truly want to experience different results, then you will need to train in a different manner. There's no other way to go about it! So, tuck your pride between your legs, and take a cold hard look at the muscle building results that you've been experiencing lately...

If they're not what you expect, you need to make some changes to your training routine.

On a side note...

To answer the question, "Are partial reps the answer for sustained muscle growth?"

My answer is sure, but only if they are applied (along with a variety of other training techniques) to your training routine in a systematic and intelligent way.

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