Do you wonder why almost everyone working out in the gym goes for high volume bodypart splits? On Mondays in almost all gyms in America that means its the chest day. Tuesdays will be the back, Thursdays and Fridays will either be legs or arms day. There seems to be a lack of variety or rational thought. You could certainly ask yourself why there is need for all this training volume. For decades, most forms of training have been passed on from generation to generation exclusive of rational thought. Sensible training programs deteriorated and became less and less prevalent when the use of anabolic steroids began to grow rapidly in the 60s. Those were the days when renowned trainers like Steve Reeves and Paul Anderson trained using more sensible, lower volume programs before they started to ...

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Many bodybuilders find success with brief, high intensity training. They discover the magic secrets to feeling peak contraction, and can manage to elicit some growth despite only using a few sets. For steroid users, this sort of success is easy with low-volume, extremely heavy training. For naturals, it can be much harder. Meeting peak intensity and training to actual failure isn’t always possible, especially when training without a spotter. For this reason, many bodybuilders resort to higher volume training. Hitting that peak failure point or achieving absolutely perfect repetition tempo isn’t as necessary, when you hit the muscle group with enough quality sets. Let’s look at a sample back day utilizing high volume training. You don’t have to train to failure on any set, although it is productive to toss that method ...

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Many professional or top amateur bodybuilders – with years of training experience and anabolic assistance – still find themselves with a weak or lagging body part they cannot seem to bring up to speed. They train with incredible intensity, they eat more than enough protein, and they use steroids to help with recovery and to utilize more of the protein that they consume. Yet due to genetics, or one of many other factors, they still suffer from that one weak body part, hurting them with judging and limiting them form advancing to the next level in bodybuilding. It’s essential for most bodybuilders to use the common technique of “each body part once per week” due to the fact that bigger body parts require so many sets that recovery quickly becomes an issue. However, advanced bodybuilders – with their ...

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