Your nervous system plays a huge role in how strong you are. In regard to your nervous system, it’s basically like this, the more forcefully your nervous system can fire, the more you will be able to lift. One…
I have mentioned in some of my past articles that the body makes adaptive choices according to what it thinks will make an exercise stress easier. If a strength adaptation is the best way to make an exercise stress easier, then the body…
Training Deceptions I believe there are training deceptions. What do I mean by training deceptions? I am referring to anything that cab mislead us to believe things about training that are not really true. Most training deceptions are partially true…
The seasonal deception is one of the easiest self-deceptions to fall into for athletes, especially seasonal athletes that respond well to strength training. People who like to look good during the summer when they go to the beach but don’t care…
Deception #3 Better Results are Always Due to Better Training There are situations where a lifter may be lifting too hard for optimum strength gains but they are obtaining better results than others. This leads people to believe that they…
Deception 2 is a tricky one as it can really boost a lifters training until it quits working. Deception two is based on shocking the body by overtraining and also by allowing the body to overcompensate by undertraining. Both overtraining and…
Out of all of the training deceptions that cause us to be mislead by our own training experiences, there is one that I believe is more common than any other. I call it the common deception. It commonly occurs when…
If you look at a lifters strength level during a workout, they often workout in such a way so that their strength will start out high. At some point, fatigue sets in and strength will steadily diminish until the workout…
In my early years of weight training, there were a few things that really got my attention. One of those things was Arnold’s biceps, another was Robby Robinson’s arms, and another was Bill Kazmaier’s strength and size. I was impressed…
Identifying the Marker Rep: How do you see it? An interesting study is to watch various lifters and learn to identify where their marker rep occurs. It will help you be able to identify your own marker rep and help…
