Secret for lagging muscle groups!!!!

**Ronnie Rowland** · 01-13-2008, 05:09 PM

In reality, you do not need to hit a muscle group from a lot of different angles. All you really need is one KEY movement that produces a good stimulus to the bulk of the muscle and one SECONDARY movement that does a better job isolating and/or hitting the weaker regions of that muscle group. Also, a third exercise can be thrown in if desired when Slingshot Training but don't get your expectation up thinking thats the big secret to getting lagging bodyparts to become as big as strong ones because its not! In fact, it will hinder progress a bit by decreasing neural adapations if extra sets are not added.. Meaning you would have to do 3 sets during a prime, 12 sets during a blast and 8 sets during a cruise. I have yet to mention this and felt it was time to do so because of all of the pms I have received on this board and others asking if it's okay to use 3 exercises for bodyparts such as the quads and chest when following the Slingshot Training System.

Now if a muscle group is very responsive due to genetic factors, you will certainly improve muscular hypertrophy over time with Slingshot Training. If a muscle group is slow to respond, then about the only thing you can do about it is keep consistent and expect to make less gains in that region than strong points. Yes, adding a third exercise as an ADVANCED TRAINER and a couple of more sets can be helpful but no additional amount of work load will make lagging bodyparts grow like strong points. I have found Slingshot Periodization the absolute best way to max out one genetic potential as a bodybuilder but no routine will change your genetics. And there's a ton of ways to train that will not even get you close to your full genetic potential and darn near cripple you in the process!

My suggestion to everyone is to approach training in a simplistic manner. There's no reason whatseover to be filled with doubts. Whether you want to use a different training split or use 3 different exercises for a bodypart is up to you but the splits I have suggested has worked best for the masses. The best thing you can do is not over analyze and just train consistently hard and what ever can happen will happen in the long run. This will put you on the right track!