Intense Cycles For Advanced Lifters (Part 1)

Sooner or later all top lifters after years of experienced training and with an amazing physique will consider to just specialise in one type of lift. Normally they come to this decision as a motivation factor due to basically coming to a dead end. What I mean by that is that lifters end up training so hard just to maintain their physical strength and they stop achieving growth, so something has to change quickly.

One way around this is to focus on one or two lifts at a time whilst simply maintaining your other lifts. By doing this you are asking less of your body’s recuperative abilities, hence allowing your body to recover between training sessions and start making some progress again.

These changes can also be applied to body-building and one way of looking at it would be like bringing up a lagging body part and improve balance and symmetry. The majority of us would probably like bigger legs, but don’t get down hearted when the rest of your body doesn’t achieve the same results, because remember our aim is to focus on making progress and before we weren’t making any.

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.

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;-

Squat: Posterior chain (erectors, glutes, hamstrings), Quads. Deadlifts: Posteriors chain, quads, traps. Stiff Leg deadlifts: Posterior chain, traps. Bench Press: Pecs, front delts, triceps. Standing Press: Deltoids, triceps. Weighted Chins: Lats, teres, rhomboids, biceps, rear delts.

Part 2 coming soon or just go and find it on the mickhart blog if you cant wait.

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