Published on: May 21, 2023
Today, we will tell you more about the training process.
Is it necessary to divide one muscle group into many separate components as part of a workout?
In short, no.
There are a lot of videos on the internet where people offer to train separately the thickness and width of the back muscles. According to this logic, we can divide the muscle into several workouts. One day, we train the width of the right side of the back. The second day, we focus on the thickness of the left side. Day three, we target the depth, and so on.
You would probably think, "How pumped up your back would be!" But no, that's absurd.
The Importance of Mental Focus on Training Large Muscle Groups
People who pump up their backs are very few; it's not like you're pumping up your biceps. If you train for more than one year, you can already feel your muscles and you can concentrate on the top or bottom of the back. Everyone knows how to stretch a muscle, but very few people can tense it. When working weights are increased, a person cannot do either. Such approaches in training make no sense. You must know how to strain a muscle. If you strain it for two times out of fifteen reps, then you did two reps, and not fifteen. Concentrate on each workout of any muscle on each repetition.
It will be much more effective, and you will feel that your working weights are not as big as you thought. For example, if you used to bench press 80kg (176 lbs) twelve times, when you start to concentrate on bench presses and chest presses, you will see that your working weights are not as big as you thought, and you will lose at least 20% of your working weights. But your workouts will be effective. There is a big difference between weight lifting and concentrated lifting.
If you are a beginner, do such concentrated reps one to five on each workout, no more than that. Otherwise, you will overtrain and lose the desire to train. This will help you create a mind-muscle connection.
Mental Focus
The back and legs are the biggest muscles of the body, and training these muscles is the hardest. When you train your back, focus on it because your biceps are involved in almost every exercise. If you focus incorrectly, most of the load will go to your biceps. So, instead of training your back, you will train your biceps.
The bigger the muscle, the more mental focus it requires.