Here’s a concise guide on how to understand and implement auto-regulation into your training to maximise results.
To create a long-term change, there needs to be a stimulus strong enough to elicit an adaptation and groove the pattern.
The conjugate approach accomplishes simultaneously training all necessary motor abilities with a constant renewal and reestablishing process.
The meet prep beast is going to rear its ugly heads at you sometimes, and its mugs come in many forms: injuries, stress, or a lousy no-show training partner. When one of them tries to bite, it’s best to have a flexible plan of action that helps you nimbly dodge from the monster’s jaws.
Understanding how muscles work at even the smallest scale can help you make bigger and better gains during your training sessions at the gym.
We all share about 99.9% of the same genes. It’s only 0.1% that makes us unique, but that 0.1% can make a big difference in your physique and performance.
As a scientist who studies the fundamental basis of how muscles get bigger and repair in response to stress, and as a lifter who has always cared a bunch about programming, I find the debate surrounding GAS very interesting.
The muscle memory phenomenon is a multi-faceted process with many different areas of the body having a different “memory” in relation to degree and timeframe. Let’s look deeper into this process.
Your numbers will be subject to so many external variables, but your character is forged by intentionality.
Your body must undergo multiple stages of adaptation before you decide whether or not your training program is working for you. Patience, my friend. Patience.
Using scientific study as its foundation, this article has two main goals: better explain the causes of delayed onset muscle soreness and disprove three common misconceptions.
No matter the athlete, the ability to move is the most important function to build. Sometimes, it’s best to slow things down.
With autoregulation, a system such as RPE can help manage life stressors and account for nueromuscular processes on a given day…but only if you use it correctly.
If you are limited by the work and sacrifice that are required to be a champion, then embrace your mediocrity!
Is Vitamin C an unnatural supplement?
The long-term development of an athlete should always be in the forefront of every training program.
Training is not a process that should be equated to randomly throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
Training is best when aged slowly, like a fine wine.
I like to think that, as a profession, we’re much better than we were.
The types of adaptations that power athletes have elicited through their training emanate not from one particular muscle group but rather from the entire central nervous system.
