Linear Periodization is a very popular form of training. It simply means that you start out with a fairly light weight at the start of a training cycle, and you add weight week by week until you are using a…
Lamar Gant Pound for pound, the greatest deadlifter of all time may be Lamar Gant. He was a great deadlifter, but he was just flat out strong and tough in every single lift. Lamar was a small lifter at 123…
Many years ago, weight training was not well accepted as a means of conditioning for sports. Coaches seemed to be aware that weight training could help people improve in terms of muscle mass and strength, but they believed that it…
Third Common Training Mistake This is the last in a series of three articles on three common training mistakes. The first mistake is to believe that workout must become increasingly severe and difficult in order to keep on making progress.…
A Second Training Mistake, 72 Hours of Recovery In the last article I discussed that the biggest training mistake I had ever made in training was to believe that I must continuously find ways to train harder in order to…
The biggest strength training mistake I have ever made was to believe in the philosophy that training must continually increase in difficulty in order to keep making progress. According to high intensity training methods, if I started with a moderate…
Optimum Strength Capacity vs. Emergency Capacity You have an optimum strength capacity. Your optimum strength capacity is not your ultimate capacity for how hard you can possibly push yourself until you can barely move. Your optimum capacity for strength refers…
Andrey Malanichev – Simple Workouts Andrey Malanichev is a perfect example someone who has achieved extraordinary results through the use of simple workouts. By simple, I mean that it does not take tons of assistance exercises or elaborate training cycles…
One of the most common training strategies for lifters of all kinds, whether power lifters, bodybuilders, weightlifters, athletes, or general fitness enthusiasts, is block periodization. A basic strategy for block periodization is to divide training into three to four…
The pattern that kills progress occurs when a lifter habitually violates the foundational goal that his body has for gaining strength; the goal being to make it easier to lift a given weight. If the basic strategy of a…
