07/27/2023
Through specialization, you can concentrate your focus and energy on building up your weak points.
This allows you to devote the appopriate volume/intensity to your target muscles to grow fast and efficiently.
If you're an advanced/strong intermediate lifter and have not been progressing much lately, consider the following...
Intensity and Frequency 💪🏼 To build your muscles, you have to train it more with higher reps, more sets and much greater frequency. At the minimum, build a training routine that you could do 3 to 4 times per week.
Isolation 💪🏼 Isolation exercises are great for targeting a specific muscle which is ideal for promoting hypertrophy to lagging tissues. Add 2 or 3 isolation movements to your programming if they aren't already incorporated.
Prioritization 💪🏼 Prioritize your weak points by programming your specialized training first so you can perform them with maximum intensity and repetition. This way, you can ensure that you can execute them with highest quality and effort possible.
Variation 💪🏼 Add a variety of exercise progressions/regressions to help prevent overtraining and plateau. This way you can almost guarantee steady progressive overload session to session.
Duration 💪🏼 A typical specialization phase lasts between 4 to 6 weeks. Use this period to squeeze every last drop out of specific exercises/variations that challenge the target tissues and/or movement patterns (before shifting to other muscle groups).