Training is like traveling; you have to map out the route you want to take in the timeframe you have. For training, planning your mesocycle is a good place to start that journey — you have to understand the basic principle of progressive overload and take your maximum ability to recover into consideration.

Trying to understand programming without knowing the terminology is similar to navigating a country without knowing the language: you can do it, but it won’t be easy.

Rather than explain, in great detail, when and how I think it would make sense for you to do this, I’m simply going to recount how I did it while coming back from a pec injury.

In this first article of the series we look at the underlying purpose of a strength athlete’s training and the importance of the mesocycle.

How can you effectively program for a sport with an unimaginable amount of variety? Integrating block periodization with event specific training is one way.

Part of being an adult is learning to prioritize; If training is important to you, you won’t have to tell anyone.

This basic template gives you five, 14-day microcycles to revamp that old-school program and give you new-age gains.

Dr. Squat turns The Real Deal into a more destructive, pugilistic powerhouse.

No other concept is used so pervasively and perversely with so little factual support than the ‘S’ word.