Subject: Fix a weak or lagging bodypart in 4 minutes a day...
Everybody
has them but nobody wants
them.
What are they? Stubborn,
hard-to-develop
bodyparts.
For
me, it's shoulders, calves
and biceps. For you, it
may
be chest and triceps
or perhaps hamstrings and
quadriceps.
No matter what
the part, the solution to
it remains the same:
Specialization.
Specialization
is a technique that provides highly-targeted
training overload to one or more
bodyparts.
This
can be in the form of additional
training volume and/or
training
frequency, i.e. do more sets for
it and/or train it more
often. Just
like medical doctors specialize
in certain areas
of medicine, you
will learn how to specialize on
a particular
bodypart and excel
with it.
I'm
going to show you a particular specialization
program
that I've found to be EXTREMELY
useful for developing
stubborn bodyparts.
It's not hard to do and it doesn't
take
long to do but it has
the potential
to shatter plateaus in hard-to-develop
bodyparts like a brick through a
window.
Daily Specialization...
The
name of the program is Daily Specialization and,
as
the name implies, it's done on a daily basis.
It's very
similar in concept to the "grease
the groove" style of
training by Pavel Tsatsouline.
You will do just 1 set of 1 exercise
for 1 bodypart twice a
day, every day.
It's very
simple but very powerful and it
can be done with
any bodypart or exercise you like!
I
will use dips as an example here. Ideally, I would
recommend you choose an exercise you
can do at home
for your selected bodypart to make
it easier and more
convenient to do (chances are,
you're not going to be
going to the gym twice
a day to do 1 set of 1 exercise!).
If
you have weights at home, it will broaden your
selection
but I find that bodyweight exercises
(that use your
bodyweight for resistance, e.g.
dips, chin-ups, push-ups,
etc.) are most effective anyway.
Using
dips as the example, on Day 1, very soon after
you
wake up, do as many dips as you can. Go to
failure,
doing as many reps as you can then stop.
That's your
morning workout. You're done.
Do
everything else in your day as you normally would,
even your regular workouts for that bodypart if
they're on
your schedule. This program exists
completely outside
your regular workout schedule.
At
night before you go to bed, do another set of
dips to
failure. That's it. When you wake up the
next day, do
another set of dips to failure, just
like on Day 1.
Keep
this up for as long as you
like - anywhere from a
few weeks to a few months,
depending on the results
you want and whether
you want to switch to another
bodypart or not.
This is the entire program!
As
a quick note, you can add a third set in the middle
of the day on non-training days in order to speed
results.
It will give your body a little extra
stimulus for that bodypart.
Also, do only one
bodypart at a time with this program.
If you add
in more parts, you will dilute the training stress
and diminish the effects of the program.
The
key to success with this program is consistency.
You
MUST do it consistently every day, twice a
day, without
fail to provide that constant training
stimulus to the body.
Even if you don't feel like
it, do it. Even if you're tired and
you don't
get nearly as many reps as usual, do it. Even
if your muscles are sore, do it.
The only exception
to this
rule is if you're sick or injured.
Do
this, and you WILL get results.
Why Daily Specialization Works:
Physiologically
speaking, the body becomes its function.
If you
run long distances, your body will have a tendency
to become smaller and lighter to be better able
to cope
with the stress.
If you lift weights,
your body will have a tendency to
become more
muscular in order to deal with the
resistance.
We
target this highly-efficient adaptation process
by
training stubborn bodyparts with very high
frequency.
Your body quickly learns it needs to
build up that bodypart
in response to this constant
workload. Your body will
very quickly start allocating
recovery resources towards
rebuilding that part
bigger and stronger.
You
keep working it and your body will keep building
it.
This program harnesses the adaptive power
of your
body and channels it into a specific bodypart
for
maximum results. The results are consistent
and phenomenal!
My experience with Daily Specialization...
I used this program for my shoulders, doing handstand
push-ups. At a bodyweight of 200 pounds, when
I started
I couldn't do a single full rep, only
a few partial reps.
After
12 weeks of consistently doing handstand push-ups
morning and night, I was able to perform 40 full
reps at
the very same bodyweight. If you think
about this for a
moment, it's actually quite shocking!
Could you imagine barely being able to bench press
your
bodyweight one day then, 3 months later,
being able to
press it 40 times!
Later on, I
eventually used this style of training to work
up to
a set
of 50 reps of the handstand push-up.
In addition to the strength and muscle endurance, I noticed
a MAJOR increase in muscle size in my shoulders. The
bodyweight strength also directly translated into increased
free
weight strength.
To give you an idea, this translated to me being able to do
full-range
dumbbell shoulder presses with 105 lb dumbbells.
You
can easily achieve powerful results like this
with the
Daily Specialization Program.
One
of the greatest benefits I found with this program
wasn't
even the improvement in strength and muscle
development.
Working the stubborn bodypart twice
a day to failure actually
made my stubborn shoulders
not nearly as stubborn anymore!
The
constant workload, in addition to building strength
and
muscle mass, also greatly increased the circulation/
capillarization
in the muscles.
Poor blood circulation is one
of the biggest causes of
lagging muscle development.
This greatly-improved
circulation meant more nutrients
could get into the muscles
more easily, which
means easier muscle growth in the
long-term.
Not
a bad result for a few minutes of effort every
day!
I
want you to pick a lagging bodypart, pick an exercise
for it
and try this program for yourself. I guarantee
you will see
consistent results. Your body will
simply have no choice!
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Interested
in learning more about other
Specialization
Programs and how you can
use them to shatter
training plateaus?
My
Specialization Training book has 6 complete
programs
(including this Daily one) that
can be used to blast right
through them!
Nick Nilsson
The "Mad Scientist of Muscle"
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