In my last post about some popular methods of splitting up your workouts, I listed three possibilities (there are many more) 1. Three Days Per Week Total Body 2. Three Days Per Week Alternating Upper/Lower 3. Four Days per Week Alternating Lower/Upper In this post I’m going to give a list of exercises that I [...]
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I field a lot of questions about how to split up workouts. In my opinion, workouts should be split up according to your goals. After that, you must take into account your personal situation: your age, job, levels of stress, current level of activity, injury, overall health, training experience, and time available. Someone whose main [...]
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I instruct my clients to keep a slight bend in their elbows at the bottom of their pull-ups. As a result they aren’t going “all the way down”. Invariably, someone else will see this and tell them that they should, in fact, go all the way down. Often it’s another trainer or a random guy [...]
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My general feeling about weight training is that everyone should learn the basic barbell exercises. There is simply no substitute for the practicality of adding weight to a bar on exercises that train your body’s natural movement patterns. Once proper technique has been learned and a good base of strength has been established, incorporating other [...]
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Exercise works on the SAID principle: Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. Your body will only adapt to the specific type of stress you apply to it. Therefore, if you want to be strong, you have to primarily practice lifting heavy weights and if you want to be a marathon runner, you have to primarily practice [...]
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