Building Muscle – Alternate Training for Size and Working for Strength And Never Hit a Plateau Again
There has been a trend in the recent years towards the so-called functional training. It emphasizes training the body … Read more
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Behavioral Modeling – The 4 Rules of Achieving Your Goals
Behavioral modeling is a technique developed to replicate the achievements of high level performers. It means observing the technicalities of their competence, creating a model of that behavior and teaching it. For example, if you follow the exact steps someone took to achieve a certain thing, you will achieve it too.
Now the catch is that most pros are at a level of unconscious competence. This means that they know how to do certain things, but neither can break them down in explainable form, nor can they teach them.
Here is an example. A badminton player used to come to the gym where I trained. When we asked her to explain specifics about the way she plays the game, she said that you just do it. The girl declared that we were just unfit to grasp the techniques.
Unconscious competence is the reason why many natural athletes are poor coaches. They never had to analyze and breakdown the technique of their sport. Mediocre athletes on the contrary, often have to dissect things and are thus suited to teach others.
1. Know Your Outcome
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Progressive Overload – How to Give Your Body an Extreme Makeover
The gradual increase of the difficulty of your training (progressive overload), is the only guaranteed method to increase your … Read more
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Bench Press More – Give Me 12 Days And I Will Make You Stronger
Have you ever noticed how when you first join a gym it is easy to get stronger, add weight and do more reps on each subsequent workout? But a few weeks or a few months later, your progress comes to a halt. You keep pushing the same amount of weight and keep struggling at the same number of repetitions.
This is what I experienced when I first became serious about working out 8 years ago. I wouldn’t miss workouts and yet I seemed to be stuck. In fact, I keep seeing the guys at the gym struggling to change their bodies OR get stronger. Truth is, I see this at most of the gyms I visit when I have to workout somewhere else. The cost of all this is not only that people fail to get their dream bodies, you know, the type of physiques that inspired them to start training, but also quit working out altogether.
And I don’t blame them.
You see, it is not your fault that you fail to progress in the gym. The mainstream advice in bodybuilding mags just plain sucks.
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Beginner Strength Training – Build Bigger Muscles Fast With The Strength And Size Full Body Workout
I will be real here. This is not the only workout I have done. And, this is not the workout I have started training with. Having said that however, this is the workout I currently do and I would recommend to anybody that is a beginner or intermediate, because it produces the fastest progress thus the fastest results. I will write more about what physical goals you need to surpass in order to advance past intermediate status.
[When you eventually start doing weighted dips, body weight only dips will become very easy. I managed 20 here, but I’ve done as many as 33 when I trained with dips exclusively.]
Here Is How You Can Tell If You Are Intermediate Or Advanced
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Are You Sabotaging Your Gym Progress?
Weight training is a kind of stress. When your muscles, as well as tendons, bones and internal secretion glands … Read more
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