There may come a time in your training when you have achieved a high level of strength and development throughout your body and decide to specialise in one particular lift for a period of time. If you are a fairly advanced lifter with many years experience you may find that the weights you must lift to make progress actually hinder your recovery to the point where you are training extremely hard just to maintain your strength levels, with progress coming in almost immeasurable drops followed by long periods of stagnation.
What you really need to concentrate is your focus and the ability to change it, so instead to killing yourself every session, just do a couple of lifts at 100% and just maintain the rest. The effect on your body will be felt immediately as you you begin to recover a lot quicker and you will actually begin to see progress again.
If you were to apply these changes to body-building it would be like bringing up a lagging body part and improve balance and symmetry. You may choose to work on getting bigger legs and although other parts may be missing out at least you are making some progress, which is hell lot better than none.
You may not really want to make this change in training so before you do, just make certain that you are in fact doing everything possible to enhance your recovery ability. Take a look at your nutrition and targeted supplements as well as post training recovery methods such as hydrotherapy and massage. you need to follow a well structured training program as well as active rest and you must take a really good look at your lifestyle as maybe it is affecting your recovery time.
Only you know if your approach to restoration is under par, or your training volume / frequency isn't suitable, and if that is your case then don't even bother reading on. But if you think you are 100% committed and have looked at every possible way to improve on nutrition and restoration, then maybe you should just read on and discover the unique training program I am about to reveal.
Now I am going to allow you to choose the lift you want to specialise in, but don't forget that cable crossovers and triceps kick backs aren't "lifts"! This is what I consider to be a list of lifts that body-builders use for the different related body parts;-
Standing Press: Deltoids, triceps. Weighted Chins: Lats, teres, rhomboids, biceps, rear delts. Bench Press: Pecs, front delts, triceps. Squat: Posterior chain (erectors, glutes, hamstrings), Quads. Deadlifts: Posteriors chain, quads, traps. Stiff Leg deadlifts: Posterior chain, traps.
Part 2 coming soon or just go and find it on the mickhart blog if you cant wait.
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