Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches
Warming up prior to training is important. I usually recommend the following: 1×5 @ 40% 1×5 @ 50% 1×3 @ 60% Work sets
Jim Wendler • 5/3/1
In the TB world, strength training is the skeleton over which we drape things like work capacity, endurance, speed and power. Focus on getting extremely strong in a small handful of balanced compound lifts.
K. Black • Tactical Barbell: Definitive Strength Training for the Operational Athlete
High tension training has five key conditions: 1) slow exercise performance; 2) maximizing muscular tension, or ‘flexing’, regardless of the weight used; 3) employing heavy, 85-95% of one’s maximum, weights at least some of the time; 4) minimizing fatigue; 5) taking advantage of various neurological phenomena.
Pavel Tsatsouline • Power to the People!: Russian Strength Training Secrets for Every American
Laws of strength and conditioning:1. Progressive Overload: At whatever you want to improve at, you need to progressively overload. Adaptation is a byproduct of stress (more reps, load, higher complexity, shorter time frame,…)2. Exercises themselves do not determine adaptation. The application (sets, reps, load, time) determine it. This precedes the... See more