Training to Fail Part 3: The Failure of Intensity Cycling
13 Jun 2010 16:49
This post is a continuation of Training to Fail Part 2: Intensity Cycling and High Intensity Overtraining.
Part one of this post showed that it has been very difficult to elicit performance decrements using high intensity overtraining protocols and extreme protocols had to be undertaken to do it. Yet, high intensity in these studies meant MAXIMAL INTENSITIES. What's more these intensities were used over and over, rep after rep, for relatively long periods of time for such training.1 Intensity cycling is used for what is considered relatively high intensities as compared to hypertrophy parameters but nowhere near maximal intensities. The mean intensity of the so-called intermediate 5x5 programs is closer to 80% of maximum and sometimes lower.
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Strength Performance Psychology Versus Physiology: It's All Mental
08 Jun 2010 14:02
I've complained and I've complained about silly quantitative notions concerning the factors that determine success. It's 20% percent training, 80% nutrition and stuff like that. Complete and utter nonsense. Says nothing. Contributes nothing.
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Training to Fail Part 2: Intensity Cycling and High Intensity Overtraining
06 Jun 2010 22:43
See part one in this series Training to Fail: The Failurists.
Intensity cycling is basically what it sounds like. Cycling intensity. Specifically it means dialing back intensity (literally weight on the bar) for a period of weeks and then building back up in set increments to your previous load in the hopes that this will enable additional load to be added to the bar in the weeks that follow.1
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Training To Fail: The Failurists
05 Jun 2010 18:11
As I began writing this post it occurred to me that the process of writing is very similar to the process of training. At least the way I do it. Although I am new to writing about strength and fitness in a focused way, I am not new to writing in general and I have two primary methods. The first is to have an idea and to let it ‘simmer’ for a few weeks after which, through a largely unconscious process that I do not well understand, the idea comes out almost fully written.
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Strength Training Motivation And Goal Setting
01 Jun 2010 20:13
Why do you strength train? Are you even clear on the reasons? Do they change from week to week? With so much emphasis on goals perhaps we are missing something even more fundamental and vital. Motivation. What good are goals when you are not even clear what motivates you to do what you do?
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