Training and Exercise

Myo-Reps in Plain English

October 11, 2010

60 second pitch: Sick of overtraining? Hate the restrictiveness of cookie-cutter programs? Enter myo-reps, a method of training that allows one to instinctively regulate training volume while making huge gains. Being a method, it can be used with any exercise that can be performed safely close to or at one’s fatigue threshold. With Myo-reps, you [...]

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How I Herniated A Disk and What I Did to Recover

October 3, 2010

This post is about how I suffered a herniation at L3-L4, and subsequently, what I’ve done in the one year following that to get back to lifting. Let’s cut to the chase. Go back to September 2009, and I was finishing up a training cycle with the Texas method. It ended with me bringing up [...]

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Why Body Recomposition is Hard, and How I got it right

September 15, 2010

I said in my previous post about ‘How I mastered eating Leangains Style’, that there were some physiological benefits to eating in a fast-feed pattern. In particular, I was interested in the much coveted goal of body recomposition: simultaneous fat loss and muscle gain. Now that I’ve had some personal experience with this, I’ll present [...]

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What Makes A Great Coach Great?

August 22, 2010
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Somehow or rather, it’s a common belief that the best person to take advice from, is the person who has achieved the best results in a particular area. Unfortunately, that isn’t true. The false assumption is that there is only one path from novice to expert. The Problem We can’t all emulate the greats. That’s [...]

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Bodybuilding: The Asymptotic Sport

August 8, 2010
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If you remember your High School math, an asymptote is a line that you get closer and closer to, but never ever reach. In some sports, athletes can continue to get better and better. Eg: You could always increased your free throw percentage in basketball. But like it or not, bodybuilding is an asymptotic sport [...]

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Bulk or Cut?

July 31, 2010
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While there are many people who strive for athletic performance, it’s more like that the the average person just wants to look good naked. That approximately translates to more muscle and less fat (and ladies, you get ‘curves’ by having more muscle as well). After the miracle period of beginner gains, we face a fundamental [...]

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Auto-Regulation for Massive Strength Gains

July 8, 2010

Auto-regulation is a process where you determine the volume and intensity of training for the day, literally based upon how you feel during that training session. The strange (and awesome) thing is, both research and anecdote has proven that training this way seems to stimulate significantly greater strength gains compared to traditional methods. If you’ve [...]

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Effort

May 26, 2010
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Most people don’t put enough effort into their training. In fact, pick whatever tasks you can think of, and you’ll find that most people partaking in that task just don’t put in real effort. For some reason, people just don’t want to do their jobs well, whether they be students, real estate agents, marketers, lawyers, [...]

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Keep a Training Log

May 10, 2010
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Some athletes have the luxury of a personal trainer or coach to keep track of their training for them, most of the recreational athletes don’t. For this group, it is up to the individual to decide on the future direction of their training. Fortunately, training for a bike race isn’t like predicting the stock market; [...]

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Why are you training anyway?

April 24, 2010
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To gym rats, the fitness junkies, and the washed-up meatheads. A message to you guys and gals: Ideally, we would be But of course, excuses get in the way.. Yet we certainly don’t want to have it take over our life, and have to ask That Said, I’m sure you have goals, and.. With that [...]

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