Special tips: How to make your body stronger
Stay committed to the gym and constantly fine-tune your workouts, and you're sure to be significantly stronger in a few weeks.
But damn it, sometimes that's just not soon enough like when you're meeting your buddies at the gym in an hour, and you want to make sure you smoke them on the bench press. Behold, our best tips to get immediately stronger:
1. Work up to your heaviest weight instead of using a pyramid.
Do several warm-up sets with low reps that prepare you to lift your heaviest on your last few sets. That way, you'll have energy for those sets — the most crucial ones for strength gains. Say you're planning to squat with 300 pounds for five reps. You could do 135 pounds for six reps, 185 for five, 225 for three, 275 for two, and then 300 for five. By the tim...