10 Mechanical Dropsets for Muscle Gain

There are many techniques you can use to intensify your workouts. Doing supersets, shortening your rest period, or doing cluster training or ladder sets are perfectly valid ways to make yourself work harder. Dropsets are a particularly effective technique. With dropsets, you perform an exercise set to failure, or just short of failure, but instead of stopping and resting, you keep going by reducing the weight and doing more reps.

Dropsets have been popular among bodybuilders for more than half a century because of the way they enable lifters to go past what would otherwise be their point of failure. For some bodybuilders, however, the idea of trying to add muscle mass by reducing the load, even at the end of a set, just doesn't compute. For them, there has to be a better way to extend their sets.

Enter the concept of "mechanical dropsets."

Regular Dropsets Versus Mechanical Dropsets

With dropsets you go "beyond" by doing the exact same exercise, but reducing the weight to get...

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