Categories of Weight Training: Part 6
Ok, time to wrap up. On Tuesday, in Categories of Weight Training: Part 5 I clarified some things regarding volume and then looked briefly at the issue of both training frequency and a bit at exercise selection. Today I really want to wrap-up on hypertrophy so I can talk about maximum strength next week (and then hopefully have a good race report the week after that). Today is going to be sort of a grab-bag of topics, some of which will hopefully answer some of the questions I’ve seen in teh comments, some of which will probably leave you with more questions than answers.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 5
Forging ahead. On Friday in Categories of Weight Training: Part 4, I continued with the discussion of hypertrophy by addressing the issue of volume. In that article, looking at a recent review paper, I threw out a value of 30-60 repetitions as giving the apparently maximal growth response. Before I get to more issues, I need to clarify a couple of things about Part 4. After that I’ll address training frequency and exercise selection and save all of the ancillary topics for the wrap-up of this topic on Friday.
Categories of Weight Training Part 4
As I discussed in that article, due to the variety of pathways involved in stimulating growth (which may act independently or interact somehow), you tend to see the widest ‘range’ of intensities being at least potentially useful for stimulating at least some kind of growth (this also ties in with the idea of their being different ‘kinds’ of growth as discussed in Categories of Weight Training: Part 2).
Categories of Weight Training: Part 3
Today I want to use that as background to talk about hypertrophy training in more practical terms. Today I want to make some more general comments and then talk about intensity/rep range as a loading parameter. I’ll talk about other issues in a later part of the article I’d note that some of what I want to talk about has been discussed in other articles on the main site and, when appropriate, I’ll link out to those articles rather than repeat myself here.
Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 2
As I mentioned in Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 1, one thing that tends to increase with depression is rumination, your brain starts going 90 miles an hour as you worry about your problems. Among other things I was worrying about (including the proverbial, what am I going to do with the rest of my life), one question was what exactly had happened to my skating and training and racing? That is, how had things gone from so good to so bad overnight?
Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 1
As readers with good memories will recall from Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 4, I had travelled to Napa, California to race another half-marathon and despite cramping after a crash at the second turnaround, came close to my goal time and ‘won’ (inasmuch as there was little to no competition and even the announcer made a crack about me sandbagging when I got my medal; ha ha). After the race I had a brutally long and boring drive back to LA, hung out with some friends and then got on a plane the following morning.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 2
Of course, the explicit goal of this type of training is building bigger muscles although there may be a variety of reasons most wish to achieve this goal. One would be to provide a base for increased strength or power performance since larger muscles are potentially stronger muscle. Athletes, depending on the specifics of their sport, might wish to actively increase muscle mass to increase their potential performance capacities.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 1
What I want to look at over these articles is various ‘categories’ or ‘types’ of weight training, focusing on those of the most relevance to folks wanting to change body composition. That is, I’m not going to talk about things like power training or things aimed more at performance.
