Two Training Challenges for Busting Through Plateaus and Forcing New Gains For a program to be successful, it must regulate the variables of volume, intensity, and frequency. Generally—and this is not an absolute; there are exceptions—two of the variables should be high (or one high and the other moderate) and the other variable must be low. The reason I believe many “bro splits” are popular is because they are easy to program. Many gym-goers these days, for instance, like to train one-bodypart-per-week and train with a lot of sets, a lot of intensity, but with very low frequency. Although this approach most certainly can work for a lot of lifters, I don’t think it’s the most optimal way to train. If you’ve read any of the material that I’ve written on this blog and in articles elsewhere, you will know that I’m a fan of high-frequency training. And I typically recommend a lot of high-frequency, hi...
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