Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

HOW TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TRAINING PROGRAMS
only a handful of them being progressive. Weight-training success is about
results, not just about how many hours you clock up at a gym.
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e recommendation to delay training if you are not recovered
from your previous workout is not license to be lackadaisical with
your training. Training consistency is absolutely essential. But
only consistent dedication to something that works is going to do
you any good. You could be the world’s most dedicated trainee,
but if your training is not working, then all that dedication and
training consistency will not produce bigger and stronger muscles.
Find a training volume and frequency that work well for you, and
then become a super-consistent trainee, only delaying or skipping
a workout under exceptional conditions.
The bottom line on training frequency
13.22 Experiment with training frequency to see what delivers steady and consistent
exercise poundage gains for you. is will be relative to your individual
recovery ability and the type of training program you use.
13.23 e training frequency that best suits you for your current program may not
be what is best for you for your next program. e type of training approach
used, the way you organize the exercises over the workouts, specific exercises
selected, the degree of exercise overlap and duplication over the course
of the training week, the intensity and volume you are using, and rest and
nutrition habits, can all influence the optimum training frequency of each of
your exercises.
13.24 What one person may gain quickest on can be very different from what
another person gains fastest on. If you can squat twice a week and add a
pound each workout to your top work set, you will make much faster progress
than someone who can only add a pound a workout if he squats once
every 7–10 days. But if the latter fellow squats hard twice a week, he will
stagnate, get overtrained, and lose strength. e faster gainer is better off
than the slower gainer, but there is nothing (drug-free) that the slower gainer
can do to improve matters assuming that he is truly fully attending to all the
components of recovery, and is training well on an abbreviated program. e
slower gainer should not copy the faster gainer, and the faster gainer may
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