The best way I can explain this concept is to tell you a story about a pilot and his air traffic controller.

How many of these things do you think about when you’re training? What could you be doing to make yourself and your training partners better?

Doing more gen pop or accessible workouts doesn’t make someone any less strong. Just ask elitefts athlete Yessica Martinez. Or, better yet, read her training logs to see how doing yoga or some gen pop exercise could lead to some bigger numbers in the squat.

Where part of the problem lies is in the assumption that a single should always or usually be heavy or maxed. The single, the heavy single, and the 1RM should really be seen as three different terms entirely.

Tailored for the powerlifter and bodybuilder, we revisit Dave Tate’s and Mark Dugdale’s conversation covering exercise execution, pre-workout food, recoverability, training evolution, and more.

Number of competitions? Severity of injury? Conditioning and size? Powerlifting total?

Dave and JL talk about the aspects of Circa Max that many lifters overlook: the what, how, when, why, and who.

This 52-week approach begins immediately after a meet and constructs a long-term plan for tying together all parts of a training program.