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Recommended Reading: All About The Squat

July 26, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Just read “All About The Squat”. Pretty nice aggregation of all the important points one needs to know when squatting.

Filed Under: articles, exercises, squat, strength, technique

Prilepin’s Table for Hypertrophy

July 24, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Scott Dixon wrote an article for T Nation titled “Prilepin’s Table for Hypertrophy” In it he takes Prilepin’s original chart and modifies it by including variables like rest periods and time under tension  (TUT) to account for optimal muscle gains. This is what Prilepin’s original table looks like. Percent Reps per Set Optimal # of Reps Total […]

Filed Under: articles, chart, hypertrophy, program, routine, table, workout

Acupuncture, Homeopathy and Placebo

July 21, 2011 By Gregor Winter

People in the fitness world seem to be especially susceptible to complementary and alternative “medicine” (CAM). I always wondered why that was, but never came to a conclusion. Maybe it’s the above average body awareness which leads to hypochondriac behaviours and therefore people are more likely to turn off critical thinking and put themselves into the […]

Filed Under: articles, cam, health, placebo

4 Quick Lifting Tips

July 21, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Mehdi from StrongLifts has 4 quick tips for 4 lifts. 1. Squats: Arch Your Back2. Deadlifts: Relax Your Upper-back3. Bench Press: Widen Your Stance4. Press: Get Under The Bar

Filed Under: articles, bench press, deadlift, exercises, lifting, powerlifting, press, squat, strength, tips, weightlifting

How to Prevent Insufficient Recovery in HIT

July 15, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Thomas Kurz has a quick post on “How to Prevent Insufficient Recovery in High-Intensity Training “ 6. To find out when it is safe to do intense exercises (and for a sore calf, jogging and running are intense resistance exercises), press deep into the muscles to be exercised. You can poke them with your finger, […]

Filed Under: articles, health, hit, lifting, prehab, recovery, strength, training

Jim Wendler’s Training Rules Of Being Awesome

July 13, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Jim Wendler’s Training Rules Of Being Awesome 1. Your program will be based on 4 exercises: squat, bench press, deadlift and the press. 2. You will train in the weight room 2-4 days/week. 3. You will do some kind of “hard” conditioning 3 days/week. This consists of pushing the Prowler, running hills, running stadium steps […]

Filed Under: articles, lifting, plan, program, strength

Liking Healthy Foods – Can it be trained?

July 13, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Interesting article on Scientific American: Can We Be Trained to Like Healthy Foods? Scientists and physicians wonder if our lust for unhealthy, obesity-inducing eating might be tied to the food choices made during our first weeks and months of life. “‘Our hypothesis is that flavors associated with various vegetables, could be influenced by early exposure,’” In […]

Filed Under: articles, diet, health, nutrition

Jim Wendler on John Broz’s Method

July 10, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Jim Wendler wrote a response to the recent Bret Contreras’ article (Max Out on Squats Every Day) about John Broz’s training methods. Read with an open mind. It’s been a few days since the Bret Contreras article on John Broz, his gym and his training methods came out on T-Nation. The response was huge (just […]

Filed Under: articles, Bulgaria, jim wendler, john broz, powerlifting, strength, training, training program, weightlifting

Mark Rippetoe on Fallacies about Adaption

July 10, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Read this article : The Biggest Training Fallacy of All by Mark Rippetoe He puts forward a fitting analogy for why people don’t make any progress. That is, comparing training with sun tanning, with regards to the stimuli needed to get adaption. The skin doesn’t adapt to total accumulated exposure, but to the longest exposure – the […]

Filed Under: articles, lifting, Mark Rippetoe, starting strength, strength, training

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