. Put this recovery-priority thinking to the test. But this assumes that you are
training hard. If you are loafing in the gym, then increasing recovery time
will not help your gains. You must trigger the growth mechanism through
hard work.. Before you ever jack up your training intensity you must first ensure that you
are not training with excessive volume and/or frequency. Some people who
are told they must train harder are already training hard enough to make
progress—it is not necessary to train until you collapse in order to stimulate
gains. e explanation for their poor or non-existent gains is that they are
not resting enough between workouts to permit their bodies to grow. And
because they are overtraining on their current training volume and intensity,
to train even harder will only make matters worse.The barometer of success
. Never get caught up, like so many people do, in the near religion of gym vis-
its, as if gym attendance is the barometer of success. If your training pound-
ages are moving up steadily, and your form is consistently good, then you are
bang on course. To be able to gain like this you may not need to train any
exercise more often than once every seven days. And there are some people
who are better off training some of their exercises and body parts less often
than once a week.. Most trainees would greatly improve their rate of gaining if they would halve
their training volume per workout, double the rest days between workouts,
get serious about delivering real effort in the greatly reduced training time,
and pay more attention to ensuring that enough calories and nutrients are
consumed daily.. To maximize your gains in muscular size and strength you must organize
your training, nutrition, rest and sleep in order to ensure progressive train-
ing poundages. Everything you do must be built around providing the opti-is book teaches enough variations of abbreviated training to
last you a training lifetime. ese include different set and rep
schemes, rep styles, intensity formats, cycling methods, ranges
of motion, choice of exercises, equipment selection, rest periods
between sets, and use of specialization programs.