When it comes to training, there should always be one goal in mind – to improve. It’s an easy thing to achieve when you first start going to the gym, because moving up in weight is a pretty natural process. But once you’ve been training for a while, it’s not uncommon to find yourself hitting a ceiling, a barrier that you just can’t seem to get through.
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I’ve been pretty busy over the last week doing various things and haven’t managed to write many posts, but I thought I’d take some time out to write about something I found recently and have adopted into my routine…
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When it comes to choosing a routine, what works best is what suits you, what you can keep to, and something that plays to your genetics. But what does the last one mean?
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It’s 1 A.M, and I should be sleeping.. but I’ve done something to my neck and back (I think it’s deadlift related) and it hurts to rest my face on a pillow.. or do anything else. And so it’s review time. Here’s a short but sweet review of my new favourite shoes: The Nike Free 4.0 v2s!
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The truth is that there is no one way to train that will be optimal for each individual. Simply because of that word – individual. In the same way it’s difficult to predict what a stranger’s favourite colour is, you can’t just tell someone what workout is going to suit them best, without doing some background work…
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You’re new to the gym, and it’s a scary place. You find yourself in a sweaty room filled with people doing weird things with metal bars and circular chunks of metal that look pretty heavy, while staring at you with a disregard that is on the borderline of pure hatred.. and some of them are even lying down while doing it! You don’t know what to do, where to begin… So you ask around – but that just makes you more confused.. Why is everyone telling you something different?
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Hello and welcome to the first installment of my favourite training mechanisms/routines/activities. This one is about Reverse Pyramid Training (or RPT for a nickname that absolutely no-one uses). It’s not only my favourite and currently employed style of lifting, but recently there has been some murmurs on the scientific side that it may also be superiorly-beneficial (it’s a word) to other styles of weight training for hypertrophy/strength gains. Read on for not so much advice, but a fond tale of a man and his best friend…
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The aim of this article is to weigh up the pros and cons of training twice a day, as I’m sure you’ve all heard of rumours about reduced gains, or that you gain lean muscle faster. With lots of conflicting factors around this subject, hopefully you will be able to gain a clearer idea over which is the better choice for you personally…
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