I have noticed that I have hit my plateau on leg press and basically the rest of my lower body workouts. I have also hit it on bench press and shoulder press. Anyone have any different workouts or suggestions that could help break through the plateau phase? Thanks

you could keep your feet together, or more spread apart on your leg press, hands closer or wider for bench, etc.. and alternate between your normal bench, squat and the modified version...

start incorporating machines into your lifts, but DON'T stop using barbells entirely

try finding ways to tweak your lifting, but don't DRASTICALLY change it if it was working for you in the first place

one big thing that i would change is the time it takes to do one rep.. i would drop the amount of weight you're doing and do "4/0/2" reps... meaning take 4 seconds to do the negative, 0 pause, 2 to actually lift the weight... and you could switch it up to whatever you choose.. put in a 1 second pause etc..

the most important part to getting out of a plateau is to keep your muscles guessing

Try shocking your muscles. You can do negative workouts. just get a spotter go to higher weight that you cant do and resist the wieght from coming down on your chest, shoulders etc. and then have the spot lift it back up and keep going to complete failure. You can also try mixing up your body by doing more or less reps. so if you do like 3 sets do a diffrent amoun of reps for each set to really shock the muscles keep them guessing. Good Luck and keep training!:-)

What kind of weight and rep range are you doing? You getting enough rest between workouts? Try possibly different exercises, dropping the weight a bit and doing deeper and higher reps on the leg press and if your looking for a boost try some creatine as a last resort.

Hope this helps :D

What helped me for legs was doing barbell front squats. Might want to give that a try.

And for my bench, try doing some dumbbell bench exercises (regular / incline / decline) and see what happens. My weight room had a bar that had this "bend" in it so that you could bench deeper then a straight bar... That helped greatly to push me over my plateau when I just did two sets of ten at the end of every workout.

Try using muscle confusion. Change up your workout routine to the opposite of what you were doing. So if you have been doing high wieght low reps do low weight high reps. Or the opposite. Try to change to different workout.

You can also try doing super sets. But make sure that the first exercise in the superset is stable and the second is unstable. This helps to use more of your smaller muscles on the second exercises so you wll see bigger gains.