Bodybuilding Advice: An Advanced Bodybuilding Workout That Uses Periodization

One of the quickest ways to stop your bodybuilding progress is to perform the same workouts over and over again. It amazes me how many bodybuilders keep repeating the same workout routines over and over again with no results for months to an end.

While changing your bodybuilding workouts frequently will keep your body guessing, thus forcing it to adapt and grow, there is a very efficient way of changing your workouts called periodization. With periodization you can vary your workouts in an orderly manner that will maximize your body's adaptation capabilities by taxing the system to the brink of overtraining and then cutting back on the volume in order to allow adaptation to happen in the form of increased muscle growth and strength.

In this week's Bodybuilding Advice: An Advanced Bodybuilding Workout That Uses Periodization, you will see how a routine that uses the principles of periodization looks like for the purposes of increased muscle mass and strength.