Look at the contrast between these (my latest) two workouts; this is what I consider to be “Conjugate for the masses”. I do think it’s possible to blend power emphasis work with HIT/strength work and the more MetCon-ish/HIIT sessions as well — all within the same overall plan. Add a dash of some bodybuilding-like volume [...]
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Well, I suppose I have fallen off the edge of the “wired” earth Slowly but surely, though, I am making my way back into some sense of wired-world normalcy. And hey, have I mentioned that I love my new gig with Efficient Exercise of Austin? Yeah, it’s true; I’m like a kid in a candy [...]
Many of those in what I would call the HIT-purist camp, most notably Dr. Doug McGuff (Body by Science), recommend a full recovery between workouts; that is to say, they don’t favor the performance of “active recovery” as it tends to alter/delay super-compensation following the inroad made during preceding workout. And, to a certain extent [...]
So this is what I chowed-down on Sunday evening, following a rather long day spent in the fixie saddle. What you see here is a 1 lb, applewood smoked ham steak, from my good friends at Greene County North Carolina’s Rainbow Meadow Farms. You can’t really tell from the photo, but that good-tastin’ bad boy [...]
Zack Dechant, of the fantastic Strength & Conditioning-themed blog, Sports Performance Training, knocked another one outta the park a while back with this aptly titled post, More is Better? It’s a keen observation of the coaching community’s tendency to fall back on tradition – on what “worked” last year, or last decade – versus doing [...]
Patrick Ward, who maintains what is, in my opinion, one of the better training-related blogs on the net (Check out Patrick’s work, here), wrote this piece recently, which I thought was a fantastic compare-and-contrast/food-for-thought companion to my own recent Of “Failure”, “Intensity”, “Inroad” and “Frequency” post, and, too, to an older piece that I wrote, What, [...]
Sometimes it’s good to take a step back, check our logic and assumptions on a topic, and make sure our basic understanding still holds water. Kinda like checking for that weak link in your strength chain. A sanity check every now and then can save us from wandering lemming-like over the cliff of smug confidence. [...]
So, in a supreme act of creative schedule juggling (*pats self on back*), I was actually able to push this workout out until Wednesday. That’s a good thing on two counts, the first being that I would be better-off, following my last full-body beat-down, to take two days off free of intense weight training. The [...]
I suppose it could be said that serendipity has been the theme for the last couple of days. I rather enjoy it when findings and properly conducted science validate those things I believe in my gut to be true; and now, if I were a bit more smug, I’d pump my fist and proclaim vindication!, [...]
Performed this combo with as little rest as possible between each movement, and with each rep in the scheme performed in rapid-fire fashion. I really pushed the envelope to, but not over, the edge of form degeneration. This is a fine line to manage. snatch x3 + btn push-press + OHS x 5 combo: 95 [...]
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” – Socrates Crock pot meals may, to the culinary artist, boarder on the unimaginative, but they sure are easy as all hell to throw together — and they’re not too bad in the taste department, either. And hey, for those of us who’d rather [...]
I meant to publish this yesterday, but…chalk it up to “technical errors”. First, the early AM iron blitz; another example of how much can be accomplished in a 30-(ish)-minute window. bent-over barbell row: 225 x 5; 275 x 4, 4, 4 feet-elevated ring flyes: 30 lb vest x 8, 9, 9, 9 pistol squats: 30 [...]
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you’ve hung around the ol’ TTP blog for long, you’ve inevitably heard me drone-on (and on and on…) about my beloved fixie. What’s the allure, you ask — I mean, Chrissakes, it’s just a friggin’ bicycle, right? Au contraire, my good [...]
Cranked-out about an hour’s worth of mixed-intensity fixie riding yesterday evening (rode for a half-hour or so, hung-out at the coffee shop for a while, then hit another half-hour or so on the way home), just to keep the legs loose. I’d put a tri-tip roast, celerity, and carrots into the crock pot prior to [...]
Another workout from the “simple in design, brutal in execution” files. Today I opted for a lower-body push, upper-body pull set-up; tomorrow I’ll switch it up with a lower-body pull, upper-body push. The volume here is relatively low; the intensity, though, is sky-high. Tomorrow’s workout will be followed by 5 or [...]
