Glute Girls know the importance of one of the biggest muscles in the body. Everyone has a body part they feel is a weakness, and needs a little extra TLC. Calves, forearms, traps, upper chest, rear delts, just to name a few. However, most people don’t train their lagging body parts the correct way. They think that just by adding a few extra sets a week, they will have Tom “The Quadfather” Platz calves in a few short months (if you don’t know about “The Quadfather,” see below). However, there is one group of trainees that have seemed to figure out the lagging body part conundrum.
- Glute Girl training frequency
Glute Girls all have one thing in common, and I’m not referring
to their huge amount of Instagram followers. Furthermore, they train their glutes more than any other body part. The bare minimum, no pun intended, of total glute annihilation workouts per week is 2. The average is 3, combined with 2-3 ancillary training sessions. I guarantee they are putting more time into training their butts, than you are doing calve raises.
For instance, they are training their glutes 5-6 times a week! Do you train your lagging body parts with that amount of frequency? If you are having a hard time getting your calves or forearms to grow, start working them out 5-6 times a week. Contrary to what you have been misled to think, overtraining is not caused by working out the same muscle group multiple times throughout the week. Overtraining comes from a combination of your nervous system and recovery systems being overtaxed. Don’t believe me? Check out German Body Training. You train the whole body 4-5 days a week. People start becoming over trained when they add to their workout load, and don’t take any existing exercises/ sets away. The total workload is increased, and so is the extra need for recovery.
- Glute Girl training volume
Another interesting aspect of Glute Girl’s is their training volume. When you work out with 50% of your 1RM (1 Rep Max), you activate 40% of your MVIC (maximum voluntary isometric contraction). 90% of your 1RM activates between 50% – 60% of your MVIC. Most people can bang out 15 – 20 reps using 50% of their 1RM, and only 2-3 reps using 90% of their 1RM. It doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist
to see that training with 50% of your 1RM will yield you faster, and greater hypertrophy (muscle size) gains. If you just want to be strong, and don’t care how big and ripped you are, then continue to train with 2-3 reps using 90% of you 1RM.
- Glute Girl dedication
Glute Girls will do whatever it takes to get their posteriors to grow. However, that often includes traveling with workout bands, doing crab walks on the beach, and knocking out 100 legs kickbacks just before they go to bed. Are you doing 100 standing calf raises before bed every night? Are you working out your calves while on vacation?
And to top it all off, Glute Girls are content that it might take years for them to see results, unlike most strength training athletes. If we don’t see results within 2-3 weeks, we start to freak out, and decide that it would be wise to change up our entire training program. Muscle hypertrophy and neurogenesis take time. After that, not only are your muscles getting bigger, but you are also growing NEW nervous tissue and neural pathways. Instead of worrying about results, focus on the daily activities that build up your lagging body parts.
Conclusion
To build up and strengthen a lagging body part requires a different approach from most current training protocols. To see better results, try the following:
- Train your lagging body part 2 – 3 times a week, with 3 days of ancillary work.
- Use a lighter weight and perform more repetitions.
- Focus on today’s workout, and not your results.
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