I have a confession to make to all of my readers. There was something I should have done years ago that I put off until a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it pains me to admit this embarrassing fact, but you deserve to know. I am sharing this with you so that you don’t make the same mistake that I made for several years. Are you ready? I think I am . . . I can’t always make 5 pound jumps in my …
Archives for July 2010
Lift Heavy. Get Strong(er) and Look Better
Back in the day the primary focus and reason for weight training was to get stronger. Just think about that for a second. That is a much different reason than why people join gyms in this day and age. For whatever reasons, the focus has undoubtedly switched from getting stronger to just looking better. Here’s a quote from Brooks Kubik’s book Dinosaur Training on this very same topic: . . . they …
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High Intensive Training
High intensity training is usually described as performing a single set of an exercise to momentary muscular failure. However, the term intensity when referring to weight training generally means how close you lift to your one repetition maximum (1RM). Therefore when using the term in that way, if you were performing a set with your 3RM, you would be training with a high intensity as opposed to if …
Bodybuilding Splits, and Why They (Sometimes) Suck
By far the most common way people in commercial gyms train is with “bodybuilding splits”. They have a leg day (maybe), chest and triceps day, back and biceps day, and they’ll throw in shoulders on one of those days or have that as a separate day as well. Heck, I’ve even seen guys have an entire day for chest, back, arms, shoulders, legs, and then calves and abs. Before I proceed, I’ll say right …
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