Having been involved with weight training for years (decades), I want to share some conclusions that I thought I had learned from training experience, but my conclusions turned out to be wrong. First of all, I have always been…
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…
