Starting Strength
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
Andrew Huberman • Dr. Andy Galpin: How to Build Strength, Muscle Size & Endurance
Years ago, when I first met Pavel Tsatsouline, he challenged me to do a “40-day workout.” I followed his simple instructions to a T. “For the next 40 workouts, pick five lifts. Do them every workout. Never miss a rep, in fact, never even get close to struggling. Go as light as you need to go, and don’t go over 10 reps for any of the movements in a
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Which is why I recommend quickly pushing your hips back, dropping down with the barbell after each repetition, and resetting for each rep as if it is the first one in Power to the People!
Pavel Tsatsouline • Beyond Bodybuilding: Muscle and Strength Training Secrets for The Renaissance Man
I will restate my ‘iron communist’ views: 1. You must lift heavy. 2. You must limit your reps to five. 3. You must avoid muscle failure. 4. You must cycle your loads. 5. You must stay tight. Tension is power. 6. You must treat your strength as a skill and ‘practice’ with iron rather than ‘work out’. 7. You must strive to do fewer things better.