In one of his most detailed podcast discussions yet, Dr. Bryan Mann shares a number of discoveries he’s made about athlete training and the use of velocity based training.

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This revision and reconsideration of the ‘block’ misnomer helped me better understand concentrated loading and produced a new way to program each lift.

This updated manual revisits the work of Verkhoshansky and demonstrates how to implement a conjugate-sequence system.

His light reading is other people's heavy cerebral feeding frenzy. Time to get smarter.

When designing programs, don’t follow any blind allegiance to a certain template.

Naspinski once again visits block periodization and offers tips you can apply to your training in the coming year.

Everything that was once old is now new again, and specialized exercises are sadly becoming part of this trend.