Beyond Bodybuilding: Muscle and Strength Training Secrets for The Renaissance Man
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Beyond Bodybuilding: Muscle and Strength Training Secrets for The Renaissance Man
“Anything more than 5 reps is bodybuilding. . . . If you want to be strong, you want to keep your reps at 5 and under.”
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The key to improving physical fitness lies in adhering to a concept called progressive overload. You work a specific muscle or function in a specific manner, progressively adding intensity and duration over time. Hard days are followed by easy days. Prolonged periods of intensity are followed by prolonged periods of recovery. Repetition and consist
... See moreBrad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends “progressive overload” as the most effective way to post muscle and strength gains.
Henry Alkire • Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
Either way, the person is not getting the kind of workout that is tailored to their needs (and perhaps not even efficiently to hypertrophy needs). To get one of those, you have to do a needs analysis, decide what muscle groups you want to grow, which of those you want to prioritize, and then design a program to achieve those exact goals.
Dr. James Hoffmann • Scientific Principles of Hypertrophy Training (Renaissance Periodization Book 1)
Think of the S&S regimen not as a workout but as a recharge.
Pavel Tsatsouline • Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated Edition
