Let me begin by stating the following: there is no reason that men and women should train differently in any significant way. Anyone who tells you otherwise has no idea of what they are talking about. Anyone who tells you that a women might “bulk up” if she lifts weights hasn’t the slightest evidence to [...]
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What is periodization? I titled the last post “Simple Periodization” without actually explaining what periodization is. As do many advanced topics related to athletic science, the concept of periodization arose from the old Soviet Union in an attempt to organize training into logical periods of time. Originally, it was used to help the athlete enter [...]
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From a study I found on Pubmed: Muscular adaptations in response to three different resistance-training regimens: specificity of repetition maximum training zones. Thirty-two untrained men [mean (SD) age 22.5 (5.8) years, height 178.3 (7.2) cm, body mass 77.8 (11.9) kg] participated in an 8-week progressive resistance-training program to investigate the “strength-endurance continuum”. Subjects were divided [...]
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Have you ever wondered what makes someone strong? What is the correlation between size and strength? For the most part it comes down to just a few factors. 1. Muscle cross sectional area. A bigger muscle, in general, will be capable of exerting more force because the muscle will contain more contractile proteins. Strength training [...]
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I had an upper body day on Tuesday. In strength training circles, it’d be referred to as a repetition day. Repetition method is where you go for a higher amount of sets and reps. It’s more of a body building type scheme in order to maximize hypertrophy (muscle gain). The opposite would be a max-effort [...]
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