- ...d. Use of the method described in Constant Working Poundages in Chap-
ter .
e. Increased use of from-the-bottom double-pause reps. See Chapter .
f. Increased use of partial reps. See Chapter . Partial rep work does not
have to include lockouts. Instead it could focus on the phase from the
bottom of the rep to the sticking point, the phase starting at the sticking
point and working till the lockout, or the middle phase, or a combina-
tion of all three phases spread over the two or three different routines
rotated in a specialization program for a given exercise or body part.
g. Increased use of ultra-abbreviated programs along with increased sets
for each exercise.
h. Possible increased use of brutally hard training, and even prudent use of
to-eccentric-failure training. See Chapter .
i. Moderately increased training volume. e use of extreme intensity
techniques may be counterproductive at advanced status, depending
on the individual. Moderately increased volume work may be a better
option, but in the context of abbreviated training.
j. Regular reacquaintance with the type of training that made you big to
begin with. Do not lose touch with this proven training just because
you are experimenting with more advanced training. A few months of
intensive -rep squatting every couple of years, working up into new
personal best achievements, may be enough to put into perspective all
the supposedly advanced and superior approaches.. Whatever approaches you may experiment with, do not think that just
because you have become big and strong you can productively use high-
volume routines. While your capacity for work may have increased in some
areas, and the interpretations of training open to you may have widened, you
can still overtrain easily. Everything written in this book must still be con-
sidered when you put together your routines. Otherwise you will stagnate
indefinitely, like most advanced trainees do. Never go copying the extensive
routines of the drug-assisted and genetically blessed. ose routines will
still overtrain you even when you are of advanced status.Finishing routines
. When you are well developed you may move away from seeking ever-
increasing muscle and might. If you are a bodybuilder you may seek a fin-