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I touched on this in a different post about VOLUME. One consistent I see, regardless on where someone stands on the importance of volume, is guys always target lagging body parts with MORE volume. It can be disguised under more frequency (like this example of adding some leg curls on an upper body pull day). But, at the end of the week, MORE volume has been added. I am not agreeing or disagreeing with it. It seems to make sense when something is lagging you do more to bring it up. I just find it interesting that even guys who don't see as much value in volume (compared to other factors), generally fall back to adding volume when something is not responding.
See again i dont necessarily agree with that. I dont feel volume develops muscle mass. If its a lagging bodypart something they are doing isnt proficient enough exercise wise to get a response. It is a mechanical position problem not a volume problem. 14 sets of something that has been proven not to work for you isnt going to fix what 8 sets of the same exact thing has proven did not work for you. Every single guy in this forum every single one (including myself) has done a boatload of exercises that (we thought at the time it did) but really didnt do jack crap for us. Adding 10 more sets of that non productive exercise is not going to change one thing. On another note every single guy in this forum including myself has done certain exercises that just produced results and they are our goto exercises that we keep as a base or go back to time and time again. That equation right there is every bodybuilders job....What is a one way ticket to running in place on a treadmill training wise? Stick with exercises and mechanical positions that dont work for you. How to get over plateaus on lagging bodyparts? Put them in stretched under load positions (if you can do it safely) and most of all think outside the box and get yourself into mechanical positions and do exercises that "FINALLY" make that bodypart respond. Every single one of you guys have done probably a multitude of exercises for your biceps and triceps havent you? Did every single one of those exercise work like magic? Hell no they didnt. But over time you figured out the main core ones that seemed to bring back a return on investment. Do that for every single bodypart that is lagging and that is the key to all of this (in my opinion).....and that really doesnt have alot to do with volume...it has to do with being in a productive mechanical position (that you probably havent put yourself in before) and then getting really progressive and strong on it.