Flex Australia – June-July 2017

90 FLEX | JUNE – JULY 2017

Whether striving to inch up

your one-rep max on the bench

or set a new personal best on

theoverheadpress,orevenjust

go whole stack on the pulldown

machine, you’re bound to have

killer workouts that move you

closer to your goal — and others

that leave you a little pissed

at their mediocrity.

But when does a small setback

portend bigger problems? How

longis“toolong”tobestuckona

strength plateau? Here, we tell you

Despite our wishes to

the contrary, no one

gets stronger every

single time they work

out. (If you know a

freak who does, please

call us, because his

FLEX cover is waiting.)

the warnings to watch for and,

more important, give you five

training tools built to bust a rut,

from one of America’s top

Olympic weightlifting competitors.

Break it down,

build it up

First, the bad news: if you’re

struggling to add kilos to your

key lifts, there’s no magic formula

to tell you whether emergency

measures are needed. Fact is,

your rate of progress depends