The Quick and the Dead: Total Training for the Advanced Minimalist

Per Russian poet Yuri Levitansky: Each chooses for himself His woman, his faith, and his road. To serve the Savior or the devil, Each chooses for himself. Each chooses for himself The words to love and pray. The blades to fight Each chooses for himself. Each chooses for himself His shield and armor, staff and rags. The measure of the final penance

AMPK is the master switch that initiates the chain of events leading to mitochondrial biogenesis.

The myokinase system ekes out some energy by breaking off another phosphate group from the “A-frame.”

Without a rock-solid midsection that comes from paying dues to heavy metal or high tension, there is no way of expressing one’s max power.

Traditional athletic training periodization calls for a preparatory period and a competition period. The former builds stable long-term adaptations in strength, endurance, and other qualities. The latter does not build anything, but creates the perfect short-term conditions to realize the potential built in the prep period. If one is peaking for a

the classic guideline for alactic interval training by Profs. Edward Fox and Donald Matthews: a 1:3 work-to-rest ratio.

the greater the speed component in low-volume maintenance loads, the more pronounced their detraining prevention effects.

Russian scientist Andrey Antonov calculated that a regular untrained adult’s heart pumps out enough oxygen to enable him to keep up with advanced runners in a long-distance race. Then why does he not [keep up]…and, moreover, gets out of breath climbing to the third floor? Because his muscles have few mitochondria…Without

Although not excluding the principle of gradual overload [over a longer term], we propose sudden yet fitting the given athlete’s functional abilities changes in load—‘jumps.’