If you look into the way that great lifters, bodybuilders, and athletes train, you will find that many of them used a great amount of variety within their training. Bill Pearl built an amazing physique by using a huge variety…
In order to communicate strength training concepts, sometimes it is necessary to come up with a term that communicates an idea. Even Level Strength Training is one of those terms. It refers to the idea of training in a manner…
Improve Your Lifts by Up to 20% I know that I frequently discuss the fact that I believe that it is important to lift weights forcefully when performing each repetition. The reason I emphasize this so much is that it…
The last two articles have focused on system 4 training which addresses four aspects of weight training to enhance consistent results. These articles focused on integrated training which refers to including all four training systems into a single workout. I…
This is the first of what I foresee as a long series of articles that will simply focus on training routines. The routines are based on what I feel are four distinct aspect of training that work together to…
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…
Consider How You Train When considering how often you should work out, and how many sets and reps you will be doing each workout, you must consider how you perform your reps; specifically, do you tend to use grinder reps…
Rest Pause Variations I have written about rest pause reps in previous articles, but I am going to revisit this topic with a different variation. There are a couple of common variation to rest pause training. The first would be…
The focus of maximizing muscle fiber recruitment is often associated with using more weight, or doing more reps, but the force factor is often overlooked. In other words, if you are not lifting a very heavy weight, or you are…
Extra Workouts In my earlier years I spent my summers working at various Bible camps. It was basically a 24 hour per day job six days per week. The job included plenty of recreational and game activities, so exercise was…
