As most trainees know there are different ways on how to prescribe or measure
the weight on a bar. This is a small glossary of terms one encounters
frequently, as it probably be also can be found elsewhere on the web, but
well, now I have a link handy.
Boris Sheiko is currently the most renowned powerlifting coach in the world,
having produced countless exceptional lifters, not only in Russia, but
thanks to the internet all over the world. His programs often deem very
complex, featuring his characteristic double sessions,
where you perform a main lift twice in a …
Over the past two years the Juggernaut Method by Chad Wesley Smith has become
the general strength training template of my choice. While Chad's book
already has several pointers on how to modify the template to make it your own
program, as well as exhaustive options for assistance work, I …
Here is a quick FAQ about creatine. Few things create so much confusion as
creatine – not because there is so much conflicting information, but mainly
because it is something almost anyone at some point comes into contact with it
and wonders what it is about, whether you are into sports …
Most of the ways people teach the Olympic lifts to lifters seem to be tailored
to weak people, who are in the beginning of their lifting career, or really
athletic people, who can already move challenging weights during the whole
range of motion. I guess in the past this was …
It is popular to start strength training with some sort of linear program, like
the aptly named
Starting Strength program by Mark Rippetoe</a>`
and in general,
this is a good idea, as it produces consistent results across all age groups
and genders. When these programs stop working, many people …
After almost ten years I finally decided to upgrade my system. While my old AMD
5050e is still fast enough for most applications one needs in real life, it is
too slow to display an image on some crappy javascript webpage.
So a while ago I have read Nassim Taleb's
Antifragile
surprising, given that it is written in English and quite recent [1]. I cannot
quite endorse it yet, as I have read it only once, however, one of the
ideas [2] I took away is the following: Living things strive …
The best tools are often those, which capabilities we will never quite exhaust.
As it took years for me to discover the
excellent tabbing capabilities of vim,
I only found some of the nicer features of portage after years of use
and sometimes struggle.
After my last run of sheiko I decided to try another succession of #37 and
#31. While in theory the numbered programs are to be seen as peaking cycle, I
know several people who ran #37 and #31 (or #30, for the lighter lifters) back
to back with great success …
Although you never should change a running system, after my last
successful experiment with block periodization, I tried out Sheiko's cookie
cutter programs, namely #37 followed by #31. Mainly because my girlfriend made
good progress on #37 and #30 (#31 being for people over 80kg) and was
always asking when …
As already noted in my deadletter posts of my first and second structured
training cycle last year, I had problems transmuting the increased volume of
the volume block into increased max lifts. Comparing the average volume
session, where I did something from 30 to 50 repetitions with my working
weight …
I think if you do not run your system on a fully encrypted disk, you might as
well hand over your data directly. If your data partition is not encrypted, one
can simply boot into a live system and take your data. If your system partition
is not encrypted, one …
As I wrote before, I consider it imperative to incorporate enough protein in
ones diet. For myself I found about 180g–200g per day to be the minimal and
perhaps also optimal amount of protein for me in order to function properly.
At first these amounts seem large, because if …