Training intensification methods are challenging, exciting, and brutal, to say the least.

They're used by the best bodybuilders in the world and programmed by the most experienced trainers

as well, because we know the benefits they hold and just how much they can level up someone's

training program. And what I'm talking about here is drop sets, myo reps, rest pause methods,

AMRAPs, giant sets. And in this episode of the podcast, I'm going to teach you exactly what intensification methods are.

By definition, I will give you multiple examples of those intensification methods for you to use in your training program right away.

And I'll be teaching you how to perform these intensification methods properly.

So that by the end of this podcast, you'll know whether or not you should be implementing them into your training right away.

The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.

You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy.

Everything you want in life begins with a hard path.

First, defining what an intensification method is.

Really, this is just any training method we can use inside of a workout to intensify the workout itself.

This is usually going to be done on any given exercise at the last set, you can do it on every set depending on what exercise this is used on.

Usually this means dropping load and doing as many reps as possible.

It might mean tweaking your rest periods.

It might mean tweaking your tempo where you're pausing within a actual range of motion.

And it could also be adding things to exercises, whether that within a actual range of motion. And it could also be adding things to

exercises, whether that's a deeper range of motion, like a deficit, or we're combining

exercises in a certain way to make it more challenging. Regardless, all's an intensification

method is, is something that is thrown into a workout to challenge an exercise even further.

You're not doing just a regular bench press. You are doing a bench press with a specific

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