Most people who lift weights crave the idea of rapid strength gains. Rapid gains are possible for people who have the type of physiology that is highly responsive to weight training when they employ a very aggressive style of high…
If you have done any reading about precision point training, you will probably notice that I often mention the importance of maintaining a steady even rep pace. Why is this important? Because as long as you can maintain a steady…
There are three basic keys to strength training success. The three keys consist of: Learning to do exercises with excellent form. Training at an optimal intensity that is hard enough but not too hard. Adding weight at the right rate.…
Some of my favorite lifters are: Richard Hawthorne, Charles Staley, Eric Spoto, and Andrey Malanichev. As much as I admire them, I don’t train like them at all because they all tend to prefer low frequency training, and I have…
The Russian lifters are among the strongest in the world. Why is this? Is it just because they are Russians and Russians have good genetics for getting strong? I doubt that this is the only reason because there are people…
Some lifters work out by doing a warm up and then use the same weight and same number of reps for all of their work sets. This method is often used when doing three sets of eight, five sets of…
One of the reasons that I prefer high frequency training is that it opens the door to a vast amount of training options. One of those options is to undulate back and forth between higher volume and lower volume training.…
One of my favorite lifters, coaches, and thinkers within the arena of weight training is Charles Staley. I like Charles because we share at least three common traits; First we are both well into our fifties, but we don’t think…
If you happen to find a weight training system that brings quick results, you are fortunate. At the same time, you are at risk for buying into using that same system for a life time because the initial results were…
If you want to get stronger, then adding weight to your lifts is probably the most common method for achieving your goal. Another way to grow progressively stronger is to add reps to the same amount of weight. In my…
