Two Goals Your body has two basic goals that it is trying to accomplish when it gains strength. Goal #1: If you make your workout hard enough, your body gets stronger in order to make it easier to lift…
Individual Training Frequency There are multiple training frequencies that lifters use to gain strength. Some do the same exercise multiple times per day, others train a muscle group only once per week. Each lifter must find a training frequency that…
The Initial Key To Strength Training What is the single biggest key to strength training? In my opinion, the biggest key for beginners and intermediates is simply to train heavy. Heavy training consists of using weights that limit you to…
Over the past several articles, I have been discussing five different training mechanisms that can trigger strength and muscle size. When applied properly, the triggers can be used to empower one another. In order to use all five triggers, the…
If the only training stimulus you ever use is max reps high intensity training, you may eventually encounter a massive training rut. You can include other types of training stimulus to form a three part high intensity training cycle. …
High Intensity Training High intensity training has been around as long lifting objects has existed. All through history people have been curious to know how many times they could lift a heavy weight. If they took the time to find…
You can focus your training on one or more of several training factors including: Load relative to your single rep max, training intensity relative to max reps, maximum rep speed, training density, and total workload. Theses training factors make…
Over the course of the last three articles, I have been discussing five different training stresses that trigger gains in strength and muscle mass. These triggers include: Load relative to percentage of a single rep max Intensity relative to max…
Strength training, powerlifting, and bodybuilding would be greatly simplified if all of the top performers used the same training methodology, but they don’t. There are countless training methods that have helped lifters of all kinds attain their world-class results, which…
How to do the strongest men in the world train to get stronger? The answer to that question would be simple if they all trained the same way, but they don’t. There are a variety of popular training systems that…
