Determinants of Strength Performance Part 1
Now, if you want to get technical, you can define different kinds of strength. What is often measured in the lab is isometric strength using some kind of tensiometer (that will give you force output in Newtons, not the Fig kind, or whatever the units are) but in practical sense most will be more concerned with how much weight they are lifting in some gym movement.
It’s Time to Forget About Bulgarian Training
Bulgarian training broke most of it’s athletes, it breaks the athletes who try to use it now. It was mainly used to keep the athletes exhausted and it’s clear that similar if not SUPERIOR results can be had by NOT training that way. Even if the results were superior and the average lifter could survive it, you can’t change the fact that the small increase in gains from training that much still won’t make them not suck at the end of the day.
The 20 Rep Squat
For no particularly good reason I want to write about something that has already had endless words written about it and that is the 20 rep squat (sometimes called more specifically the 20 rep breathing squat. This is kind of the original rest-pause training, an entire book has been written about it although if you gain 30 lbs in 6 weeks, it’s not gonna be mostly muscle and I imagine most have at least heard of it.
RFL Kindle and a Muscle Gain Podcast
Just two quick little announcements this week. Rapid Fat Loss Handbook Kindle Edition Last year I started converting some of my books into Kindle edition finally. I got sort of sidetracked after I did a few of them but several got done. And, due to the software I was using not being terribly intuitive, the […]
