Great Cycles For Advanced Lifters (Part 1)

Great Cycles For Advanced Lifters (Part 1)

Mick Hart

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.

It?s a big decision to make and may not be ready yet so let?s look at another alternative, which is looking into enhancing your recovery ability. Consider things such as nutrition, targeted supplements, post training recovery aids such as hydrotherapy and massage and take a good look at your training program to see if you can make any improvements including active rest. Another stumbling block for a lot of people is an unsuitable lifestyle and you really want to take a closer look at yours and make some tough decisions.

If you think you do have poor approach to restoration, or your training volume / frequency isn?t appropriate, then you need to put it right before even thinking about turning to the specialised training program that I am about to reveal. On the other hand, if you think you are ready and your nutrition and restoration are on track, you will be extremely interested in the following.

You will be pleased to know that I am actually going to let you choose your own speciality lift, remembering though that cable crossovers and triceps kick backs aren?t "lifts"! Below though you will find a complete list of what I consider to be lifts used in body-building covering all of 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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