Taking a Bottom Up Approach to Workouts
Many people struggle when doing bodybuilding workouts to develop a routine that suits their energy level. Sometimes, you feel anxious to get to a certain element of your workout, want to focus on a particular area in your routine, or simply are tired and want to skip to the hardest parts to get those done while missing the intermediate steps between the highlights of your routine. For those who struggle with this problem, taking a bottom up approach can streamline your routine and give you a template to work from.
Many people in bodybuilding find that starting with lower body workouts, then moving to the core, and finally to the upper body and arms can be a great way to not only get the entire workout done in an orderly manner, but also build endurance over time. As the lower body becomes more fatigued, it takes more endurance to continue onwards to the other elements of your workout. Additionally, by working your upper body last, you develop the endurance to lift and change weights for your lower and mid body workouts, as well as transition to the upper body exercises and complete those last. As an added bonus, ending on the upper body tends to break the monotony of the workout, which increases your likelihood of sticking with the routine.
Bodybuilder Tells It Like It Is For Muscle Building
One of the most popular bodybuilders of all time, IFBB professional Lee Priest, in a recent Muscular Development interview, did something that other bodybuilders should follow suit on….which is to tell it how it is and stop trying to give the interviewer the answers they think they’re looking for.
In the interview Lee is asked how he was able to bring in striated glutes to the contest he won. His answer? “Again, I couldn’t tell you. I did the same amount of cardio and the diet was the same as it always was. Maybe puberty finally kicked in”.
Then, the interview, in trying to basically put words in his mouth, asks him if it were some new leg exercises that he was reported to have been implementing, such as single-leg squats on the Smith machine. What did Lee Priest say? “Who…knows? I thought spot reduction was a myth! All I know is that my legs have always been the last thing to come in, and that time they came in ahead of schedule”.
I want to commend Lee. If it were your average IFBB professional bodybuilder, they would have given some “politically correct” answer. Probably more than likely saying that the striated glutes were a result of some new supplement he started taking, or some crazy fad precontest diet. Or he would said how he concentrated more on doing heavy squats, or some garbage like that.
Thanks Lee for always telling like it is being honest. You are definitely won of the few that doesn’t insult the public’s intelligence or trying to pull the wool over their eyes.
