Winning bodybuilding a show isn’t about who can bring the most muscle to the stage on any given Saturday night. It’s not about which man is the most conditioned. It’s not about who is the best poser, the best looking, or who can move the most weight. Instead, the winner of any given bodybuilding show is the man who arrives onstage with the best possible combination of muscle mass, conditioning, symmetry, shape, and presentation. In the professional bodybuilding ranks, it’s difficult to pick out a winner, in many cases. Every man in the top 6 at any show has a perfect combination of body parts, delivers great genetic shape, and has attained a great degree of conditioning. In other words, everyone at that level has everything put together right. At that level, flaws just aren’t there. 
 
At the amateur level, it is often the man with the fewest flaws on game day that wins the trophy. Nobody is perfect at that level. When a man is perfect at that level, he very quickly scoots up to the state and national level stages, and finds his way to a pro card, if everything else falls into play. To win at the amateur level, you have to strive to eliminate as many of your weak areas as possible. One way to remove these weak areas is to focus upon them when setting up training days. You probably already devote a separate day to shoulders, back, chest, and legs, in order to hit them with the most possible attention and intensity. Heck, your arms may even have their own day, if they’re not placed on a back or chest day. But what about those commonly overlooked body parts that always end up tacked on to the back end of a training day? Think about your forearms, calves, neck, and traps. Often, these muscle groups end up being sent to the back of the line, relegated to a few sets at the end of a brutal leg or back day. They never get your full attention.  Rather, you do ‘just enough’ to ensure yourself that you haven’t ‘lost any progress in these areas this week.
 
Let’s change that. Let’s begin focusing upon our forearms, calves, and other detail body parts by giving them their very own day each week. That’s right. Your training day will start and end with just these detail parts. No major muscle groups, and no compound lifts. Keep it isolated and focused upon your areas for improvement!
 
Your ‘detail day’ should never interfere with your training of the major body parts. You would never place the detail day before you trained legs, because your calves would be sore when quad day rolled around the next time. You would never place forearm day directly before back training either. Your best bet is to finish your last training day of them week, hit detail day, and then take a day off to rest the body. Return after this break for a chest day and everything will be recovered. Consider the use of a devoted day for any weak muscle group. When you notice a few of them, consider the use of a multiple body part training day to hit all your bases, and make sure that at the next intermediate level competition, you have the fewest flaws on the bodybuilding stage.

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