Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 4
Yesterday, in Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 3, I talked about my general experiences at the shelter during the summer and falling in love with a dog named Babe who then got sick and adopted. I’m going to continue in that vein and keep telling you about how the shelter really impacted on me and why I think volunteering, either at a dog shelter or elsewhere, can be a good thing to do. I’ll wrap up tomorrow and really hit you where it hurts and I apologize for not having any doggie pictures today. They just didn’t fit my flow.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 3
In Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1 and Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1 I described the shelter itself, what they do there, and how the volunteer program in fairly abstract terms. I also tortured you with dog pictures. I know I said I didn’t want to be a general advocate for what they do but I really do feel that their program is brilliantly set up and run well and I’d thump on about it for that reason alone.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 2
In Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1, I talked about the shelter itself, what it does, how adoptions work and introduced some of the volunteer programs including the BRATT program I’m involved with. I also finished by introducing the idea of different color levels for the dogs and that’s where I’ll pick up today since nothing I said yesterday can possibly have made any sense.
Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter: Part 1
This is probably not a post that you ever expected to see on this site, especially given my reputation for being a misanthropic asshole who hates everybody and everything (that’s untrue by the way, I simply dislike 97% of everybody and everything). And it’s certainly not a post I ever thought I would be making. But it’s important so here it is.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 6
So, as described in Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 5, I had managed to eke out 3.5 weeks of decent preparation for the Houston inline marathon, had had two nights of sleep and was now in Houston. I watched some tv and crashed like an absolute rock. Two days of too little sleep will do that.
Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 5
Ok, so having come through my recent bout with Overtraining, Overreaching and depression, I finally got myself back on some sort of track; as discussed in Part 2 of that series, with a mere 3 weeks to prepare, I targeted the final race of the season, a half-marathon on what looked to be a fast course in Houston. Had things gone differently this summer, I’d have entered the marathon where I belong but I simply didn’t have time to get my fitness to a sufficient level so the half it was.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 8
Summing up that last bit, to a first approximation maximal strength training is generally represented by loads of 85-100% of maximum but there can be some variability in this. Some will use lower loading (but a lot of volume or frequency) and you occasionally see work above 100% for maximal ecentric work. That 85-100% range will typically yield sets of 1-5 repetitions. More on this below. Today I want to conclude maximum strength training by looking at training frequency, volume, rest intervals and exercise selection.
Categories of Weight Training: Part 7
Ok, having finally gotten through the issue of hypertrophy to more or less completion in Categories of Weight Training Part 6, I want to finish up this series this week by looking at maximal strength training. Shockingly, after the endless verbiage I expended on hypertrophy training, maximal strength training is actually in many ways simpler.
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.
