If your main goal is to build muscle, stop training with your ego. Either take the recovery week or modify your exposure to loading along the progressive exposure-to-intensity model I promote, or both. The Shieldmaster strikes an adjacent enemy for armor damage before hunkering down and boosting his passive ability, Return the Favor to return even more armor damage for 1 turn. I call them linear and alternating. If they work for you, use them, trendy or not!Linear periodization involves a progressive reduction in one variable (e.g. If you do the lower body on days one and three, it will get a slightly better training effect than the upper body.
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If you're deficient in a body part, do it first in the week all the way through the 12 weeks. Again, in the interests of simplicity, I present two options.
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Choose one of these 8 proven splits and get to work. Put the downsides on the shelf for the moment.
win These are the major variables that, when manipulated, constitute a "new program".The other major influencing variable when talking about rate of change is exposure to intensity.
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Increase your training density. If you goal is size, it’s hard to beat twice-per-day training.
Sure, you could go back and repeat the program but that would be boring and ultimately not optimal. Height 5'9" 175.26 cm Weight 205 lbs 92.99 kg Association: Syndicate MMA Class: Light Heavyweight.
You could definitely return to this program once a year, leaving you to find three other 12-week programs to do during the calendar year. They're dumb.
Or is it a lack of control of emotions? Nail your lats, chest, triceps, delts, and abs with one exercise. Bodybuilding is full of programs used by "enhanced" lifters, but most people don't take drugs and can't get good results. If you're balanced in these body parts, then just rotate them.If you do the upper body on days one and three of the week (first), then they'll get a slightly better training effect than the lower body.
Remember, I'm not telling you what to do, just giving you some guidance. How likely are you to die from a heart-related problem?
Probably not.
Do this full-body plan every other day. I'm here ready to #BringThePain to the airwaves! You can use a different sequence in each stage if you want.
Is it lack of education? Think again.
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If so, should you be? Conversely, if I present the 12 week program as an alternating program, such as this:If you want to make it into a linear program, do the four stages in this order:Don't be sucked into using an alternating or more exotic form of periodization just because it's exotic.
Either way, you won't know until you've tried it. And it delivers, every time.
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But you have to be smart about it.
Don't allow yourself to get too overwhelmed. If you've seen a pattern of improvement for "X" number of weeks followed by a sudden reduction or halting of improvement, take note of this pattern. No, they aren't the only ones, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water. It's time for a new training split, one that better fits your goals and your schedule. The process is simple; it's the product that's complex!Before I expose you to the second generation of programs, I'm going to introduce you to a few tools of individualization. To those few who haven't tried one yet, we can only say, "Man, you just won't understand until you do!"
The benefits of alternating periodization is that you get more frequent exposure to the varying stimulus, and thus are less likely to detrain any of them.
The one thing I can say for sure is if you don't use one of the above or something very similar, you may be short-changing yourself.By now you should have made a decision as to which option you're going to use within the six variables of individualization that have been identified. But the bottom line is I'm still not totally happy. Make sure the sequence reflects your needs at the time.One of the succinct conclusions I've reached from years of training participation is that the more advanced you become, the lower the repetition number that you'll probably get the best response to. This is what I'm going to do:• Provide you with the second generation, advanced level of a 12-week program.• Give you tools to apply a degree of individualization.The latter will mean more people will optimize their results, but at the same time it means you'll have to read more carefully and do some thinking for yourself. This effective program is for them. In hindsight I found this to be right.
You may have such a significant imbalance between your right and left arms, that you should This concept of recovery weeks or half-recovery weeks is nothing new, at least in training literature.
Easy solution, take a recovery week after every three weeks of training!Sounds simple? It is! If you change the intensity from what you did in those examples that gave you insight, you move the goal posts.
Eliminate the weaknesses holding you back. It takes more than crunches to build high-performance abs and obliques. Then you'll never miss a workout.