So pump up your sarcoplasm, the muscle cell filler, with burning hundred rep sets in one workout (you big sissy!). Up your power and muscle density with singles, doubles, and triples in your next session for the given body part. Build the myofibrils with sets of four to twelve repetitions on your third trip to your iron pit. If you follow a four on

Load variation is critically important to strength success, but it must follow one rigid rule: concentrate on volume and do not abuse high intensity training!

attempting to maintain top condition is detrimental to future progress!

The retro emphasis on a variety of lifts from the ground and overhead, forge physiques along the lines of antique statues:

The lost secret of leanness is simple: hard physical labor every day.

Russian scientists concluded that periodic gain and loss of sporting form is a law of physiology and it dictates a cyclical organization of the training process.

complex of weight training exercises provides good results for one to one and a half months, then it should be changed. But not more often than that!

If you are training for strength and are not concerned with mass you will be better off doing 1x5 every day rather than 5x5 every five days.

Ten to twenty-five pounds of extra poundage is about right. If, for instance, you can do fifteen unweighted pullups, a quarter will bring you down to below ten but not as low as five. Alternating pullup workouts with and without extra weight will bring about the greatest gains.