Plateauing on Certain Exercises

[daniel2166]

Man, I'm really slowing down on my flat dumbbell bench and shoulder presses. It's weird, I hardly increase every week on those exercises but I absolutely killed the incline dumbbell bench, upright row and dumbbell flies. I don't get it...

What does this tell you when some exercises are ****ing slowing? Diet?

[Woden]

You need to switch up your routine. You see, your body increases msucle mass as a result of the stimulus of a harhser enviroment. In other words, as long as your enviroment does not put progressive and diverse demands on your body's musculature, you will not put on much new muscle and hit a "plateau".

Either this or you need to push up your carbohydrates a little. When you gain new muscle your carb demands also increase.

[loverman]

if your still growing thats all that matters if your not look into taking a week off and starting a new split/repschemes/volume

[daniel2166]

Woden, here's my chest and shoulder routines:

All exercises are failure sets btw.

2x DB bench
2x flat DB flies
2x Incline DB bench
2x cable crossovers(just started doing this 2 weeks ago)

and

2x DB shoulder presses
2x DB side raises
2x barbell upright rows

In the order above is how I do the exercises. So you're saying I should switch up the order? But let's say I do flies first for chest and side raises first for shoulders, won't that force me to lower my weights on the bench and shoulder presses due to the muscles all ready being fatigued? Or is that part of the point?

[Kane Fan]

try training sub failure

[daniel2166]

I did but I had a string of ****ty workouts and I was plateauing all around the board.