Continuing on with the basics of effective training is the need to have a strong emphasis on the use of compound exercises. I know this one tends to be a ‘no brainer’ but it’s worth mentioning again anyway. Yes, isolation exercises and even machines may have their place, but the major portion of your training.. Read more →
Continuing on with the idea that there needs to be heavy component (ie. low reps) to your training … Training with heavy weights improves something called myogenic tone through growth of the contractile proteins ‚Äì the aforementioned myofibrillar hypertrophy. Myogenic tone is basically a measure of a muscle‚Äôs density. When your body is nice and.. Read more →
My next few posts are going to be all about what I think covers the basics of ‘effective training’. It’s amazing how paying a little attention to some basic principles (actually applying some basic principles) can dramatically change the effectiveness of your time in the gym. How many of us have spent a lot of.. Read more →
How do most people warm up? They might jump on the bike or the treadmill for five or ten minutes for a general warm up, then they might do a few light static stretches and then they’ll move onto some light weight, high rep work before moving onto their first exercise. Then they settle in.. Read more →
I did a two-part interview for Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training (//turbulencetraining.com) member site recently. I’ll be running the full interview in a future issue of the LBC newsletter, but in the mean time (since I’m trying to post to this blog frequently) I thought, I’d post up one of the Q&As from the interview. .. Read more →
Leg Curls …. Do them? Don’t do them? There’s a lot of villfying of leg curls going on by various people these days. Now, I’m not going to argue their logic, because well, in the context of their arguement, they’re right. One of the criticisms is that leg curls aren’t ‘functional’ (popular word these days),.. Read more →