The Death of Gym Programming
The best part about training constantly at your maximum strength capacity is that it simplifies every other aspect of your training, making the need for programming
Seeing sweaty, out of shape people killing themselves jogging in an attempt to “get fit” reminds how pleased I am that I will never do another cardio session in my
I used to hate the idea of bodybuilding. I still do.
Spending time working on nothing but a better looking body seemed to be a terrible use of time.
Of course, I
If you’ve ever not wanted to exercise, or forgo the nice food you want to eat, then I have news for you.
You’re a sane human being.
We often think that getting
I stumbled on a big lesson recently that underpins much of the success I've had with strength and fitness:
You need goals that are achievable.
By that I don’t mean modest and
Strength is a skill.
You get really good at it, and the byproduct is muscle tissue.
To get really good at strength, you don’t actually need to do heaps of work every
What I eventually realised, with enough experience, was that all diets are the same. Sticking to one set of foods guarantees no more results than any other set; there are just dosages. You can overeat on any diet, you can undereat on any diet. Or you can get the balance just right, for your goal at the current point in time (e.g., fat loss).
The beauty of this is that strength goals are purely functional goals, but they guarantee aesthetic results. In fact, they’re the only way to do so.
The challenge is to find a model for training towards those goals that’s simple enough so you can execute it every week, and know with absolute clarity that you’re getting stronger over time. If you can do that...
When we haven’t achieved something yet (e.g., building our dream body, reading 300 hundred books, meditating daily for year straight) we often think that doing so requires a heap of