training

Pain and Exercise – Knowing when to suck it up

November 14, 2010

Pain is an evolutionary response that evolved to get you out of physical harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work all too well. Sometimes it starts screaming at us when there’s no real physical harm. Other times, it slacks off and doesn’t tell us about physical harm until some massive damage has been done. That’s why you [...]

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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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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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Ego Lifts

July 17, 2010
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All the washed-up gym rats know what I mean when I talk about the “Big Three”. They are the Squat, the Deadlift, and the Bench Press are all too often touted as the must do for any gym-goer. It’s obvious why people like to do these three lifts: You can move a ton of weight. [...]

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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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Defaults Matter

May 17, 2010

Good design is obsessed with a single goal: To allow the user access to all possible utilities with the least amount of effort. As a result, design does incorporate visual elements, but only because we as humans are such visual creatures; oftentimes the path of least resistance is the visual path. This has led to [...]

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I Train to Look Good and so do You!

April 27, 2010
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In my last post, I asked, ‘Why are you training anyway?‘. Turns out a lot of people have a flawed answer. Just pop by a commercial gym, and you’d see many people hammering away at their activities. You’d probably come across the sight of the young adolescent male doing his 5th set of bicep curls, [...]

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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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