Sticking Points Bodybuilding 
Sticking
points occur for all bodybuilders and the
pre-exhaust principle was devised specifically
to overcome such hitting-the-wall-phases.
For example, you may hit a sticking point in
your bench press, manifested by your poundage's
and chest measurement remaining static.
Often the answer lies not in the weakness of
your chest muscles but in the relative weakness
of your triceps. During the pressing
movement, your triceps are giving out before the
pec muscles have been fully stressed and
exhausted. Hence your pec development
remains static. How to take the pec
muscles to failure? The answer is to
pre-exhaust your pec muscles with an isolation
movement such as dumbell flyes and then go
straight to the bench press compound movement.
Now you will begin your bench press set with a
weakened chest and strong triceps. Then,
as you proceed through the set, your chest will
reach failure before your triceps do.
Hence you have accomplished your goal:
Taking the pec muscles to exhaustion means
optimum muscle stimulation and, thus, growth.
