If you need a different muscle building workout routine to combat a plateau or boredom, 'complexes' could be your answer.
If that's a term you haven't heard of before, basically, you will no longer redo the same exercise over and over for a set, you'll do one repetition of different exercises, one after another and repeat so these different exercises will make up one set.
This is nothing like doing a circuit, it's totally different.
It's better than a boring set of repetitive reps.
When doing exercises like these it works a massive amount of muscles in a short time which raises the intensity of your workout to a new level.
You'll soon realize that you're breathless after going through the routine about 3 times.
With this routine you'll experience high growth hormone levels because of the total body conditioning in a certain period of time.
It would be good to do about 5 different exercises in one routine or complex.
If you add more you could forget what the next exercise is and lose momentum.
Here is a barbell exercise that really gets me pumped Suggestion for Barbell 1.
high pull from floor (explosive deadlift right into upright row in one motion); 2.
barbell back to thighs, then hang clean (explosively pull bar from knees and "catch" the bar at shoulders); 3.
barbell back to floor, then clean & jerk; 4.
barbell back to thighs, bend over, then bent over row; 5.
barbell back to thighs, then finish with Romanian deadlift I suggest using a weight you will be able to handle in your weakest exercise of the lot, but it must still be heavy enough to present a challenge.
Do the routine in that order 2 or 3 times with no rest in between, which would then be one set.
As time goes by, you can increase the amount of times you do the routine in each set, or simply increase the weights.
You could try increasing the weight with 5 - 10 pounds and only do three sets instead of four and work your way up again, this way you will continue going forward.