This is one of my favorite old posts. Wanted to cycle it back through.
If you must exaggerate to make a point, then you're must not be very good at making points.
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^^^That's okay. They can all stand-alone.
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If you must exaggerate to make a point, then you're must not be very good at making points.
I think that for most people, what they perceive as a stall, is simply that they can't keep adding weight to the bar as fast as the have been. My favorite thing to tell people who are "stalled" is to read your articles on SDT training.
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."— Peter Drucker
Progression tables for my main lifts are here
I think that for most people, what they perceive as a stall, is simply that they can't keep adding weight to the bar as fast as the have been. My favorite thing to tell people who are "stalled" is to read your articles on SDT training.
This is how it begins :-)
Mark Twain:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
I think that for most people, what they perceive as a stall, is simply that they can't keep adding weight to the bar as fast as the have been. My favorite thing to tell people who are "stalled" is to read your articles on SDT training.
Print it out and tape it to the wall, then you can just point instead of wasting precious training time talking to people. 
The strength trainee says "Why sacrifice intensity when I can sacrifice volume"
The bodybuilder says "Why sacrifice intensity when I can sacrifice form"
"We are not sport, when there is a sport issue, we are not so good. The boxer is much better than us at boxing. But he will have to protect his balls if he wants to punch us."
Print it out and tape it to the wall, then you can just point instead of wasting precious training time talking to people.
Oh I might do this at my gym actually. I wish I had thought of this. Let me ask Kaizzad next time I see him. I doubt he'll care.
Awesome Idea, Joe!!!!
Mark Twain:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Awesome Idea, Joe!!!!
Why do you think Eric keeps me around here? :)
The strength trainee says "Why sacrifice intensity when I can sacrifice volume"
The bodybuilder says "Why sacrifice intensity when I can sacrifice form"
"We are not sport, when there is a sport issue, we are not so good. The boxer is much better than us at boxing. But he will have to protect his balls if he wants to punch us."
^^^You guys are talking about taping SDT to the wall? I hope not, lol, it's already become the "go to" solution for everything and sometimes it's not the solution. It is certainly a good way to remind people, like Doc was implying, that you can still progress other than adding weight to the bar.
Another point to bring up, though, is that progression is specific to the parameters. People tend to forget their goal is to add to the maximal ability, not their ability at 4 to 6 reps or something. You might "stall" there, and after a rest, hit a maximum PR. So you haven't really stalled, in terms of your primary goal, at all.
If you must exaggerate to make a point, then you're must not be very good at making points.
I'd tape it to the wall but only direct people to it when appropriate. I wasn't entirely serious when I suggested it lol.
The strength trainee says "Why sacrifice intensity when I can sacrifice volume"
The bodybuilder says "Why sacrifice intensity when I can sacrifice form"
"We are not sport, when there is a sport issue, we are not so good. The boxer is much better than us at boxing. But he will have to protect his balls if he wants to punch us."
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