Specialization Phases for Muscle Growth

so for me, for example, right now I want to build my lats and my legs the most. Do you think it's too much to ask to try to build both of those at the same time in priority compared to my other muscle groups? The only way you're going to know is if you try it. Like that's it, right? And there's going to be, there can be a lot of crossover if you're if you're strategic about the exercise that you, you use because there's something like a deadlift. Does the deadlift work your lats? A very small amount. I'd say, I mean, what happens if you don't engage your lats on a deadlift? Like you definitely have to engage your lats for sure. So again, there's some, there's some stimulus. Yeah. Now imagine we take five exercises and you have some stimulus, like five leg exercise or some stimulus to the lats. So your lats are still getting some work. and then you go and you do a bunch of lat stuff. So it's like, okay, at what point have you gone over what you can actually do? So I think if you were going to do that, then you'd have to be really intelligent about the exercises to make sure that your lats weren't fatigued from the back work when you do the deadlift, because that's going to fuck your deadlift up. So there is a way to finagle all of these things where it makes sense. But same thing with arms. a lot of people want their arms bigger. A lot of cases, if you're doing enough pushing and pulling and everything else, your arms are getting plenty of stimulus. You might only need four or five sets of direct arm work a week. Sometimes, if you've been training arms a lot, if you just don't train them for a while, they'll just grow. Because I think a lot of people will do a lot of chest, back, shoulders, like vertical push-pull, horizontal push-pull. Their arms are probably getting plenty of at least mid-range work. and then they go and they smash a whole workout with like 15 sets of arms it's like you actually probably don't need that yeah like yesterday i was at gold's gym uh training with a buddy of mine and we were doing a lot of chest we're doing chest we'll do a little bit of shoulders a little bit of triceps so if we're doing let's say incline press we're doing incline press some cable press we're doing it like three different press movements your triceps are still involved in that but mainly in kind of that mid range type of movement. You're not really getting any short position work or lengthen position work. So when we went to the triceps and okay, we've already done mid range on triceps because bodybuilding, I like positions of flexion style routine, mid range movement, a lengthen movement and a shortened position movement. Let's just go and do something for short position triceps and then finish off with lengthened two sets of each of those You good right You already hit plenty of triceps with everything else but people tend to not think about that when they writing programs They go arm day leg day chest day back day shoulder day It's like, okay, consider all the crossover. And if you're doing a lot of multiple joints, if you're just doing pec deck, 10 sets of pec deck, you probably need a bit more triceps. Yeah. But if you're doing a lot of pressing, less triceps.