The Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
Let’s start with why you should use an RPE scale as opposed to a percentage program. Even though percentage programs are easy to use…
Calming the Storm Between Attempts
There are lots of articles and tips on getting you revved up to perform. THIS ISN’T ONE OF THEM. Learn to conserve your energy between sets.
How to Gain 65 Pounds of Muscle in Two Months
Based on my brief observations of the garage training crew (and conversations with my son), these are a few of their Keys to Progress. These macro components (“the Keys”) have contributed to their above-average gains in size and strength.
LISTEN: Table Talk Podcast Clip — Dan Green on Using Intensity to Build ...
“…I’m using powerlifting lifts in a bodybuilding style…” Dan Green shares the secrets to building muscle as a powerlifter and as a bodybuilder.
5 Reasons Why Your Chest Sucks
I have compiled a list of what I have noticed in the 35 years I have spent in gyms that I feel are the five biggest obstacles to growing a great set of titties. Also, ease up on the bench press.
Guidelines For Injury-Free Progress: Controlling Intensity
“If I train strength and conditioning at the same time, will both suffer?” Unless you are taxing your recovery or training in completely disparate ways, you can train both domains. Here are a few ways you can do that.
Supplemental Training Mistakes and Essentials
I learned a large portion of my knowledge of supplemental training from many mistakes I made in the gym. I am hoping to help all of you readers avoid at least a few of the mistakes I made and get more out of your supplemental training.
Training Considerations for Soldiers
Since most units don’t really allow for rest days other than the weekend, I’m looking for the biggest-bang-for-my-buck exercises that I could be able to fit into a morning training session. Also, I’m working based on the assumption that Fridays are company/battery runs.
Case Study: Programming Considerations for the Injury-Prone Powerlifter
Taking two of my lifters, let’s break down all the variables that come into play for individualizing their programming to keep them not only progressing but also healthy.
Revisiting Tonic and Phasic Muscles for Increased Performance and Position
There may be a strength discrepancy between your anterior and posterior chain, but are you sure this isn’t because some muscles are stuck doing a job they weren’t originally intended to do, in a position that isn’t optimal?
What, Why, When, How — A Guide to Using an Intro Week
I have had more tweaks and muscle strains occur during the first week of getting back into training than any other time. If I’d known how to use an intro week, this never would’ve happened.
The Secret to Success in the Weight Room: Training Hard and Knowing Your...
You want the short route to constructing the perfect program? Here it is, summed up in two variables.
Progressions and Regressions in Strength and Conditioning
This model allows you to assess and modify the training of your athletes based on their daily performance and movement proficiency.
Iron, Intensity, and Innovation — I3 Strength and Performance
Brandon Holmes and Marlon Woods open I3 Strength in Performance in Augusta, Georgia for a client base committed to high-level strength and fitness.
Best Program Alterations To Make When Your Training Hits a Roadblock
You inevitably need to change up what you’re doing after stalled progress. What do you change? How do you go about deciding what to keep and what to remove?
5thSet: Swede’s Jedi Mind Trick
You can expect a good program to make you stronger. What I didn’t expect was a program to overhaul my neural network and solve every training problem I encountered.
WATCH: When Should You Deload?
Do you need a deload or are you just being lazy? What is a deload, anyway?
Training Sprint Speed at 90%. Fast Enough?
Make sure your athletes sprint intensity is high enough to develop speed or low enough to elicit recovery.
Efficiency with Supplemental Work
Three important considerations in getting the most out of your program.
Basic Principles of In-season Training
You have two options during the competitive months: progress or regress…I digress.
Bulgarian Split Squats
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform a brutal drop set of Bulgarian Split Squats
How I Control Training Volume on the Mountain Dog Program
My goal in training is simply to be able to train my ass off for as long as I can.
A Different View of Intensity and Volume
More is better? Not always, especially in terms of your training.
Under the Bar: Four Ways to Tell if Your Coach has a Clue
The basics of training are scientific and finite. Does your coach or trainer actually know the facts?
Training Principles: The Science Behind Improving Athletic Performance
There are many different schools of thought, each with their own ideas on how to train athletes in order to increase athletic performance. So how does one know which particular program will work for any given athlete?
Defining Intensity
There seems to be a lot of confusion over what exactly the word “intensity” means in a weight room setting.
Fat Loss for Dummies, Part 2: The Lost Art of Intensity
I’ve been saying for years that fat people finish marathons all the time.
Product of Your Desires
You hear people talk all the time about how someone is a product of his or her environment. This is almost always the case when someone has done something wrong, and the argument is used as an excuse for the person as if they had no choice in the matter other than to become what their environment leads them to
