I’ve written about How to Get Strong before, but here’s a quick summary. 2 Main Factors in Getting Stronger: Hypertrophy – Add more muscle mass, lift more weight. Skill Mastery – Get better at a movement, lift more weight. Obviously, if you add muscle mass you’ll probably get stronger. That shouldn’t be a surprise to […]
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Question: How important is mental training to my success? Key Takeaways Mental training (Self-talk, visualization, etc) can improve your performance & help you get stronger. Mental training can also improve your overall health and has been shown to decrease stress, blood pressure, and resting heart rate. Visualizing your self performing a movement (i.e. a perfect
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Question: How much strength/muscle will I lose if I take time off training this summer? Key Takeaways Shortest possible answer: No Muscle size and strength did not decrease following a 2-week detraining (no training) period Taking an occasional break my benefit you in the long run by improving your motivation, enjoyment, and adherence to training over the
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In the military, working out twice a day is almost a requirement to build actual strength and fitness. If you rely on the typical morning routine performed and it’s reliance on high-rep bodyweight movements and long, relatively slow, aerobic efforts you’ll probably end up with big holes in your overall fitness. If you’ve checked out
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That’s the question right? I mean just about everyone and their brother has some sort of strength program that made them awesome, you know like Wendler, Cube, Conjugate, and the list goes on and on and on. But the real question is: How do you get stronger? Let’s conclude this article before we even get
Some days just suck. You’re sore. You’re tired. You’re unmotivated. You just don’t feel like doing anything. Sometimes, this is a sign that you need a break, a much-deserved rest day after a long, hard, week of training, working and living your life to the fullest. However, if you feel this way on a Tuesday
Over the past 3-4 years, I’ve spent a lot of time programming Conjugate Method style strength type work for the CrossFit Endurance website and a number of my clients. I’ve preached the benefit of this style of training for some time now as I’ve seen that a mix of maximal strength work (a.k.a .Max Effort)
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Years ago I had the pleasure to meet a very influential combat leader named Colonel Brian McCoy. Colonel McCoy, who served as the Commanding Officer of 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, was an inspiring leader with a pretty straight forward approach to winning wars: “Brilliance in the Basics”. According to Col. McCoy, this simple concept, master
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Just about every strength & conditioning coach you talk to will agree that getting stronger will improve your performance. In fact, getting stronger will likely get you closer to just about every goal you set for yourself as well. The best part is, how you get stronger doesn’t matter… Really, think about that for a
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