Stop the plateau with these exercise techniques

Mix it up and challenge your body!

I often hear people say that they out grow, get bored, or plateau doing the same exercises. Here's 5 exercises techniques that you can use to make the exercises more challenging. Keep it mixed up and as long as you keep challenging your body you will see results.

1. INSTABILITY—We all want stability in certain areas of our life: relationship, finances or even just knowing that the recipe you prepare once a week will always turn out the same – yummy. But stability in your workouts isn’t always good! In fact, a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that key muscles in the back and abdomen might work anywhere from two to seven times as hard when the upper body, lower body or both are made unstable. So, challenge your balance…and you’ll strengthen core muscles, and boost your calorie and fat burn.
2. LOAD—A great way to increase the intensity of your workout is by adding extra weight. FIRST, though, make sure you’ve mastered the exercise without weights! You can increase the load with dumbbells, resistance bands, a weighted vest…you name it!
3. TEMPO—The best exercise to demonstrate the power of tempo is a push-up. Faster isn’t always better! In fact, by s..l..o..w..i..n..g it down, it’s actually a lot harder. And, you’ll really feel the burn. You can also increase the tempo, or add speed, but really explode it! Finally, mixing up slow with fast is also a great way to change the tempo to increase the intensity and difficulty of your exercises.
4. RANGE OF MOTION—When you’re a beginner, you want to use a smaller range of motion. This way, you can make sure you’ve got perfect form. Once you’ve mastered the exercise, add a deeper range of motion. Believe me, this is super challenging!
5. INCREASE TIME, SETS, REPS or DECREASE REST—This is pretty obvious, but not everyone tries it!

I'd love to hear how you all keep it interesting and challenging!