Training to failure works; at least for a while. Your body’s first initial response to a difficult weight training stress is to get stronger. The reason your body chooses this response is because it will make it easier for you…
For those who prefer pyramiding your poundages and your reps, I am going to offer a training strategy that you can consider using. Many lifters focus their attention on trying to make progress on the top set, which is the…
Ed Coan is one of the greatest powerlifters ever! Even though he only weighed about 130 pounds when he started training weights, he was already very strong with ability to deadlift over 400 pounds in his very first deadlift workout.…
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…
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…
