Beyond Bodybuilding: Muscle and Strength Training Secrets for The Renaissance Man

If you have picked a full body routine, the only decision you have to make is the frequency of training.

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!

“Human life can be considered one big wave with its climbing, peaking, and declining phase,” writes Polish immigrant coach Thomas Kurz, MS, the author of highly recommended The Science of Sports Training (stadion.com). “Several smaller waves are superimposed on our life wave. Some last years, some days, some hours, and some even less than a second.

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

Multiple sets with a static weight, e.g. 200kgx5x5, are frowned upon by Russian weightlifters. They have the habit of following up a heavy triple or double with a double or a single with a weight reduced by 5-10% before making another heavy lift.

attempting to maintain top condition is detrimental to future progress!

The inverse relationship between the loading volume and intensity (’you can’t sprint a marathon’) is a myth. All volume/intensity combos serve their purposes.

Do not interpret the above as an admonition not to do back-off sets! Do them by all means, just keep them in the ballpark of the top sets.

the athlete’s body adapts much better if it is presented with a focused and limited training objective, rather than a host of often conflicting demands –