I never offered programs per se but a method to trigger and sustain hypertrophy in body parts. This should avoid systemic fatigue. I think most programs involve too many muscles and that can put too much stress on many people. There are plenty of methods to stimulate growth but few that explain the lack of growth in many individuals. You need to address both for a theory to explain everything.
When I stimulate hypertrophy in my lats, for example, it feels like something has invaded that area and I would not want to have this throughout the body.
Oh no, not at one time or anything. However if the weight used is enough to induce hypertrophy, there will be systematic fatigue built in regardless of the method.
These factors need to be considered on any program:
Total training load required
Repetition range required
Rest between workouts
Proper Neural learning considerations
Systematic fatigue management
It is like when a guy does a volume program straight out of a magazine and makes progress for awhile and then it stops, and he feels like crap, less energy, signs of mild overtraining. This is over reaching, the need arises to deload or you reach the General Adaptation stage of exhaustion, or overtraining. Most guys get sick before they enter over training. Instead, you should train to where you over reach, which is where your performance decreases slightly, bar speed slows down, and the trainee feels fatigued doing things that came natural before.
Traditional bodybuilding methods do not account for systematic fatigue, and thus an intermediate stays an intermediate unless they understand the concept. Guys can lose a lot of time swapping out routines and think incorrectly about this, years even.
