One of the best ways to shock your muscles into new growth is to force them to deal with a stress that they are not at all used to. The human body is literally an “adaptive machine”; if you continually perform the same exercises over and over again, you will eventually reach a plateau in size, even if you increase your strength. Utilizing unilateral exercises is a fantastic method for providing a unique stimulus to the muscles and nervous system, with the result being a heightened hypertrophy response. Some of the advantages of unilateral movements include:
-The ability to concentrate more completely on the target muscle, allowing for more intense contractions and superior pumps.
-The utilization of more muscle fibers and exhaustion of more motor unit pools within the target muscle.
-Greater stimulation of stabilizer muscles.
-Improvement of strength imbalances between each side of the body.
While many of you have probably used basic unilateral movements such as concentration curls and one arm dumbbell rows, very few trainees have taken advantage of such amazing growth producing movements as unilateral leg presses, squats, seated dumbbell presses, dumbbell upright rows, pull downs, flies, etc. If you take some time to think about it, you can perform dozens of exercises one side at a time, while perhaps reaping double the rewards.
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