SLOW TWITCH VS FAST TWITCH FIBERS

All to often I'll read where someone has hit a plateu or they haven't changed their routine in months. I know this isn't the cure all, but from what I've seen, allot of us lifters tend to neglect the mass rep/lower weight aspect of lifting. By no means am I an expert on this topic, but I have had succes in switching things up. For anyone who has been in a rut for a little while, don't forget to change up your routine and look at what this artcile has to say about the benifits of doing mass reps with lower weights:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Slow-Twitch-Vs-Fast-Twitch-Muscle-Fiber-Training&id=830059

Great read! I have found that if I stay with a certain rep range for more then 3-4 weeks I don't see as much results as when I am changing up reps and sets every month.

From time to time I've done a workout where you do 2 sets per excercise. The first set you do 20 reps of as much weight as you can. The 2nd set you do 6 reps using as much weight as you can. You do the two sets back-to-back with no rest (only the time to slap on plates to get to the heavier weight). I actually saw this workout in an ad for Stallone's fat burner product (can't remember its name) and modified it for my own use. While touted as a fat burner workout, I actually gained some mass using it as well. Using this type of workout you can hit both types of muscle fibers at one time.