Overcoming Stall By Switching Exercises Order?

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Can you overcome stalla by changing the order of your exercises?

Let’s say your typical chest workout consists of

A. Barbell flat Press
B. Dumbell incline Press
C. Converging decline machine Press

Once you can no longer progress your bench Press
You start to do

A. Dumbell incline Press
B. Converging decline machine Press
C. Barbell flat Press

And, again, when you will stall at dumbell incline Press, you move It last, so that your workout Will look like

A. Converging decline machine Press
B. Barbell flat Press
C. Dumbell incline Press

I am Just speculating that It will work decently for an intermediate lifter, in order to overcome stalls without any dramatic change.

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Probably to some degree, but I suspect you would better achieve your goals by alternating out exercises which you’ve stalled on OR training in different set/rep schemes.

If stalling on flat BB Bench and you’re pursuing a strength/powerlifting goal, you could use an undulating progression template such as 531 where you work up to a new 1RM every 3-4 weeks. However if stalling on something where your goal is Hypertrophy, I would recommend training the lift in 2 different rep-ranges:
Heavy days: 6-12 reps/set
Light days: 12-20 reps/set
^I would ensure that the lift(s) you are stalling on are being trained in both ranges - on separate days.

There’s also the DoggCrapp Rest-Pause progression if aiming for hypertrophy, which is one of my favorites.

Is this an example, or what your training actually looks like? If you train like this, can you comment on your sets, reps, and weights?

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By the way Sorry for my flawed english. I’m not a native speaker

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Some more context. I am into bodybuilding.

I had stopped training for a while, and trained full body for the last few months, i recomped nicely (muscle Memory served me well haha), i gained strength nicely and now I’m bumping back into a more bodybuilding-oriented routine

I love the concept behind DC training (which Is btw almost identical to Jordan Peters’s except the latter tends to favour 1 top set + 1 back off in Place of rest pause, which i tried in the past).
However what I don’t like Is that one specific exercise Is trained only once in every third workout, which tends to make me feel alien to It.

And btw this Is just an example, but I’m about to start soon something similar as I’m going to start max OT - so about a couple of sets to failure in the 4-6 rep range for each of the above exercises.

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Can I suggest something then? I’m going to link the PPL split I’m working that is 90% accurate to Jordan Peters’ PPL

Something like this sounds to be right up your alley. You could swap the rep-ranges for the heavy and light exercises (indicated by 6-12(heavy) or 15-20(light)) so you’re hitting these exercises or similar every time you work that muscle group.

P.S Your english is fine - I had no clue it wasn’t your first language =)

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