Tony Conyers is an example of a powerlifter who is both physically and spiritually strong. As a powerlifter, he has been lifting for over 30 years and has maintained a tremendous amount of strength into his 50’s. As recently as…
Strength gains can be triggered through a variety of training mechanisms; one of them is time under tension. Time under tension is simply the amount of time that a muscle is required to contract while doing an exercise or a…
Time under tension is measured in terms of the amount of time it takes to complete a set of an exercise. It can also be measured in terms of how much actual lifting time occurs during a workout when you…
Football, basketball, and weight training have one thing in common; they can all be done on the basis of a preplanned course of action, or they can be done based on reactions that are dictated according to moment by moment…
Light weights for strength training? Many would say nonsense to such an idea. I would agree that it would be very difficult to maximize your strength by only using light weights. Some heavy lifting should be done for maximum strength…
Weight training tradition is generally based on the belief that it takes heavy lifting to build muscle size and strength. However, recent research on weight training shows that this is only partially true. A notable researcher by the name of…
There are highly motivated lifters who can’t resist the temptation of trying to break a record every time they work out. Of course this is a great way to gain rapidly when you first begin lifting, but it generally backfires…
In the last article I opened up the topic of powerlifting IQ. Those who have an outstanding powerlifting IQ often have great knowledge about strength training in an academic sense, but the main key is that they have the ability…
Some powerlifters seem to clearly understand how to make strength gains year after year, or even decade after decade. Those who are able to accomplish this are generally able to do so because of a high training IQ, which simply…
Bodybuilding IQ (Intelligence Quotient) is not a common term, but I am using it to refer to a bodybuilder’s ability to know how to train optimally for best results in relationship to their own genetic potential. Bodybuilding IQ is not…
