The basic idea of weight training for bodybuilding is that you need to focus on developing the muscle groups that need most development for you to acquire the shape that you want to acquire.
Going back to an earlier example to highlight this point, you may remember that Larry Scott spent a great deal of time working on developing his deltoid and pectoral muscles to gain the shape that he wanted, because these were the muscles that he needed to develop to create a ‘fake’ V-shape that is (or was) the classic bodybuilding shape.
You need to do the same thing by designing a weight training program that focuses on the muscles you most want to develop.
While for many bodybuilders this will mean focusing on the muscles of the upper torso and waist area, it does not follow that this will always be the case. For example, there have been competition bodybuilders who have had to spend a great deal of time on developing muscles in their legs, because they were people who had great muscle development in the upper half of the body, but very skinny legs!
There is also the question of why you are body building in the first place. If you are developing a physique for your own satisfaction and fitness, then your objectives may well differ from those of a competition bodybuilder who has to attain a body shape that satisfies objective judges, rather than themselves.
In short, your weight training program should be designed to achieve what you want to achieve, but even a quick online survey of the instructional materials available should enable you to find weight training exercises that will satisfy your own requirements extremely effectively.
No comments:
Post a Comment