So, just how does one prepare for the rigors of moving day (actually moving days…or even more appropriately, daze)? Well, if you’re an idgit like me, you do so by cranking-out a couple of tough-ass workouts in the days prior, just to be sure that you’re good & well zorched even before lifting that first dastardly-heavy [...]
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The idea that strength and conditioning programming — and, in fact, any pursuit related to the optimal expression of one’s phenotype — is a purely unique-to-the-trainee, n=1 experiment is the underlying theory behind my own day-to-day practice of Physical Culture. In fact, the TTP blog itself is an on-going ode to the notion that training [...]
HIT protocols – at least “HIT” in the purist sense of the definition – hinge on the concept of “training to complete muscular failure”. Now, let me first preface all of this by saying that I am a huge HIT advocate, even if I am less so a champion of focusing on muscular “failure” to [...]
HIT protocols – at least “HIT” in the purist sense of the definition – hinge on the concept of “training to complete muscular failure”. Now, let me first preface all of this by saying that I am a huge HIT advocate, even if I am less so a champion of focusing on muscular “failure” to [...]
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 [...]
Calorie intake as it relates to phenotypical expression; to cop a phrase from Robb Wolf: “Holy Cats!” I really have nothing but the deepest of sympathies for people who do not happen to make Paleo/Primal, Physical Culture their geek-out hobby – I can only imagine what it’s like to stumble into this arena trying to [...]
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!, [...]
“…But there is no certain way that exists permanently. There is no way for us. Moment after moment, we have to find our own way. Some idea of perfection, or some perfect way which is set up by someone else, is not the true way for us…” The above is from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, [...]
I get plenty of questions – and understandably so – one way or another related to my fascination with the fixed-speed (or fixed-gear) bicycle. Well, one aspect of the fixie experience that I covet — aside from the cycling purist’s love of the unbroken convergence of body, machine and pavement – is the ability to [...]
So, how are you “wired”? Here’s another aspect to consider when mapping a training plan. As one becomes more adept at “reading” one’s own body — and now we’re digging down to some serious n=1 activity — is determining one’s physio-psychological make-up. Charles Poliquin uses the analogy of the Five Elements, or the five physical [...]
Lots and lots of fixie riding over the weekend, with a couple of iron sessions tossed in for good measure. I have no idea how many miles in total I put on the ol’ fix over Friday, Saturday and Sunday; let’s just say it was a sh*t ton Friday Night Iron Works – Another “unusual” [...]
No Dip Session is the Same… …Or, for that matter, is any selected movement within an exercise session ever the same; there are just way too many variables at play — and that, in and of itself, is a good thing, serving to keep the trainee from becoming both mentally and physically stagnant. It does, [...]
Here’s the deal: if you fail to rotate through a number of different exercise variations, and choose, instead, to continually hammer-away at a few specific exercises — the bench, squat and deadlift are, to a great detriment, rarely rotated out of a “serious” trainee’s program — you will eventually stagnate, regress and/or tumble into an [...]
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
- Edith Sitwell
What do prospective NFL draft prospects have in common with your everyday, average Joe trainee? Plenty, when it comes to training what [...]
“…Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece,
Some guys come home from work and wash up,
And go racin’ in the street…”
- Bruce Spingsteen. Though I’m kinda partial to my buddy Charlie Robison’s version.
Saturday’s workout commenced during hour 18 of an IF (intermittent fast), and consisted of a good [...]
