Reverse pyramid training is an effective way to get more out of your weightlifting workouts. Here’s why and how.
After years of studying, training, and working with thousands of people, I’ve learned a simple lesson:
Building muscle and strength just isn’t that complicated. You follow a handful of rules and your body responds by getting bigger and stronger.
- You don’t need to constantly change up your routine to "confuse" your muscles.
- You don’t need to focus on "fancy" rep schemes like supersets, drop sets, giant sets, etc.
- You don’t need to spend hours in the gym every day crushing yourself with 20 plus sets per workout.
What you do need to do is emphasize heavy, compound weightlifting, progressively overload your muscles, eat enough food (and enough protein in particular), and get enough rest. If that’s all you knew and followed, you’d be better informed and get better results than 95 percent of gym-goers. Depending on your ultimate goals, it might be all you need.
That said, if your goal is reaching the peak of your genetic potential for size and strength, there’s a bit more you should know. One of the things you’ll want to learn about is training periodization and the method of reverse pyramid training in particular. If you want to reach the peak of your genetic potential, you want to periodize your training.
In this article we’ll talk about both: what training periodization and reverse pyramid training are, how they work, who they’re for, and how to put them into use.
Let’s get to it.
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