Look at Your Angle
Another way to obtain awesome strength is to vary the angle of your lifts. Altering the position from which you attact the lift can lead to further strenght gains. Chaning the angle of the lift will force your muscles to overcome a different set of forces. Compare a bicep curl with a preacher curl. The latter will be require much more muscular exertion to move the weight, the latter less.
Similarly, altering your grip will affect the portion of the muscle you are working. Likewise, don`t always do wide-grip bench press, experiment and alter the grip, perhaps even between sets, you`ll be working different portions of your musculature, perhaps even throwing the emphasis of the lift onto a different muscle group.
Split your workout routines
This is the subject of much conjecture and debate in the body building world. You work your arms and back one day, legs and abs another and so on. This should allow: 1) the-non-worked-on body region to be fresh when it`s turn to be worked on and, 2) the body regions being worked on to be really attacked when it`s their turn. Most of us will probably be following the cross-training principles follow: Employing all-over body part resistance workouts with aerobic exercise. However, if you have reached a plateu in your training and you want ultimate strength development, then a training phase of split sessions might not be a bad idea.
And you could employ pyramids or supersetting
Pyramid are designed with either increasing or decreasing numbers of lifts or increasing or decreasing amounts of weights lifted. Going “down” a pyramid in numbers of reps but increasing the weight lifted should allow for greater quality to remain throughout the session.
Try 8,6,4,2×2 lift at 60,70,80,90% of one rep maximum.
Supersetting, or variants where two opposing muscle group exercises or two similar exercises which work the same or related areas of musculature are employed alternately or in parallel to each other are further ways of wringing out extra strength from your workouts. You could perform leg extentions beforem squatting. You`ll have weakened the quads in the extensions, causing them to have to work harder when you squat. Tricep curls and bench press is a similar combo in the `pre exhaust-post pump` school of supper setting.
Or you could work both prime mover and protagonist muscles in an alternate fashion. When a muscle contracts, an opposing muscles relaxes. In a bicep curl, the bicep is the prime mover and the tricep the protagonist. Leg curl, followed by leg extension is a further example of this opposed muscle group aproach to potential strength gain. This way you`ll also be giving yourself an all-over developmental workout for specific regions of the body, legs, upper arms, torso and so on.