Ramp Up Your Strength: Strategic Ramping = More Strength

Ramping is a weight training method that builds strength and muscle size through continuous changes of training stress. Not only does ramping provide constant change from workout to workout, but it provides strategic changes that work together in a synergistic manner to produce a greater end result.
Ramping refers to a progressive increase to a specified training stress that you want to emphasize in your workouts. The ramping program presented in Ramp Up Your Strength is based upon a cycle of four basic training stressors that can be ramped up in a strategic sequence. These training stressors include:
1. Ramping up your training volume
2. Ramping up your training frequency
3. Ramping up your training intensity
4. Ramping up your load
Many lifters have found that by making frequent changes to the type of training stress they place on their muscles, progress is achieved on a more consistent basis. This is especially true when the right change is implemented at the right time. On the other hand, random changes in training often produce random results, and the wrong change at the wrong time can actually lead to negative results. This problem can be avoided with the systematic changes to training stressors that occur when different training ramps are sequenced together in the correct order.
The transition from one ramp to the next will provide a natural rhythm of alternating between an increase in training stress and a decrease in training stress. Each ramp progresses towards an increase in training stress that peaks with the last workout of the ramp. This peak in stress is always followed by a lower level of training stress at the start of a new ramp before a different training stress builds up again. The benefit of this strategy is that it prevents overtraining and facilitates recovery over the course of a strength training cycle. When you combine this with the constant changes that naturally occur in a properly constructed ramping program, adaptive resistance is minimized. The end result is added strength and size.
In Ramp Up Your Strength, You will learn:
How to ramp up your volume, frequency, intensity, and load.
How to sequence your ramps correctly into a cycle of ramps.
How to adjust the training ramps according to your individual capacities.
How to increase the load of each successive cycle of ramps.
The concept of ramping is addressed most specifically in conjunction with strength training in this book, but it can also be used for bodybuilding and anyone who wants to improve his or her performance within the context of resistance training. If you want to understand how to add systematic variety to your workouts to increase your strength, Ramp Up Your Strength will show you how.